Anonymous
Post 04/10/2019 00:03     Subject: Re:Why are so many UMC kids "gifted but learning disabled"?

Anonymous wrote:I thought my kid was 2e, but the in-school evaluation found an average iq. Kid had tested as gifted in the younger grades. Honestly, I have no idea what it means. Have asd and ADHD diagnosis now, too, which we also didn't have in the younger grades.

I was one of those people who thought a lot of this was bs for UMC kids like ours. My kid doesn't need more time on tests. Needs to pay more attention on them sometimes? Needs to care? But those are normal things. What's abnormal is the verbal/math split, and the lack of ability to understand social cues from the NT kids. How does a public school fix that?

I'm asking an actual question. Seriously, how can a public school fix that? I was hoping for a 2e program just to have a peer group for the kid that they would "get." Now that's off the table, so....


I've definitely seen kids who come across as being gifted because they have strong levels of memorization as a young child so they present as gifted or advanced but once their education requires more analysis and higher level thinking they begin to struggle