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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]What's funny is my kid is in AAP in 4th. She scored in Kindergarten in phonics and phonemic awareness in 3rd grade. She had a 154 verbal COGAT. So, it's a weird test.

It did result in her landing in a fundations group with a reading specialist in 3rd that was useless. We pulled her from it (one good thing about virtual) and got get a tutor to work on a few weak areas and she's a fine reader. So, it's a weird screener and I wouldn't rely on it for AAP purposes fwiw.[/quote]

Cogat verbal uses pictures. That level of mismatch could be a sign of dyslexia.  Dyslexia can look different in gifted kids because they develop or are advanced enough in other skills to cover for their weakness in phonological or phonemic awareness. It could also Just have been that test or that day. Just wanted to mention because I wasn't aware of that until our child also had a significant phonics to reading level mismatch like that.[/quote]

I am not certain what LDs look like for the gifted. I know that I am smart and I have LDs. I dreaded the WiSC as I got older because I always knew I was supposed to do better on it then I was, it was insanely frustrating because I could see the areas where I was confused or things slowed down in terms of processing. It sucked. Succckkkkeeeedddd. Seriously, I still dread the idea of the WiSC and I am a 50 year old adult. I took the WiSC a few different times, always years a part, because of my progress in school, moving across country, and then to set my IEP when I graduated from High School.

I don't know what dyslexia "looks like" for a gifted kid but I know that I have no memories of struggling with reading, I also know that I read a lot in context at this point. Reading to my son has been challenging because I do need to read every word and I can struggle reading Percy Jackson because I am moving words from one line to the next or moving letters around. It is kind of crazy. I know I was always seen as being advanced in my comprehension but my spelling, grammar, and processing for reading was horrific. I earned a PhD in a field that requires a lot of reading and writing and I did not have an accommodation that centered around reading. I did hire an editor for my dissertation and I did use proof readers for all of my papers and any written work.

I can fully see a bright child doing poorly on the iReady based on how it has been described. I could also see some of the remiediations they offer not being the proper course of action. [/quote]

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