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[quote=Anonymous]19:37 here.

First, thank you for not laughing me off this thread.  I'm sitting here with this beautiful, bright, articulate and sweet little girl and I ask myself why I worry so much about her.  I guess it just comes down to the fact that I know there is something amiss.  I feel that she won't be happy unless she makes something of this awesome gift and I don't feel like the school system or I have a clue about what goes on in that head of hers.

Second, I know her working memory is good but I just wonder if the subtest score on Digit Span in 75%ile compared to all of these other amazing scores is throwing her off in some unusual way.

Third, I've looked into the Davidson program.  The problem is that at her age they also want achievement testing to back up the intelligence testing and that is the missing piece with her.  She turns the simplest things, like multiple choice test questions, into complex issues.  She can explain in detail why she answered a question the way she did but in the end her answers are often wrong.  How do we get the two in sync?

Fourth, she appears to be a rarity: an exceptionally/profoundly/whatever-you-call-it child who craves the company of her chronological peers.  She still plays with dolls even as she ponders the differences between infinity and eternity; whether it's better to bomb enemies or engage them in hand-to-hand combat; or the uses of literary devices in the characters/settings in the books she reads!

Fifth, I have read the articles on the development of the brain and I'm hoping that she is that late bloomer whose brain is gong to click in the next year or so.  She is definitely a late bloomer physically.

Sixth, I suspect that the few kids she has clicked with are in the same boat.  I think that a lot of really bright and sweet kids are being short-cahnged in our schools because they are so different from their peers and their teachers.\[/quote]

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