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Jump to new posts Re: The ultimate brag thread by deacongirl @ 9 minutes 21 seconds ago

Originally Posted By: DudeFollow-up... how's this for advocacy? DW: Please inform me immediately if you're going to accept DD8 for next year as a fourth grader and in the gifted program. I need an answer now so I can begin preparing my homeschool c
General Discussion
Jump to new posts Re: The ultimate brag thread by Dude @ 46 minutes 24 seconds ago

Follow-up... how's this for advocacy? DW: Please inform me immediately if you're going to accept DD8 for next year as a fourth grader and in the gifted program. I need an answer now so I can begin preparing my homeschool curriculum over the summer,
Learning Environments
Jump to new posts Re: Article on geniuses dropping out by Dude @ Today at 04:20 AM

Originally Posted By: HappilyMomI do think the tech industry is different than most. My husband never needed college or even really high school. It is, in that, apart from math and language arts, there's very little in high school or college that ha
Identification, Testing & Assessment
Jump to new posts Re: Which test is the best? by squishys @ Today at 03:44 AM

I am from Adelaide. I know my son's school could perform the Raven's Progressive Matrices, but after year three and child has shown s/he is gifted. My son hasn't really had the chance to show what he is capable of, so the school won't pay for it. So,
Parenting and Advocacy
Jump to new posts Re: Protect gifted child from parent separation by puffin @ Today at 02:47 AM

It may have negatively impacted me. I didnt blame myself simply because i didn't know that anything children did was important enough to impact what adults did. If i hadn't had a granmother next door the impact would have been far greater. I did miss
Learning Environments
Jump to new posts Re: And this is how I knew they didn't get it... by puffin @ Today at 02:38 AM

Mine is the public health nurse (a lovely woman with a perfectly ND son the same age as ds6). "Some kids say they don't like school it doesn't mean anything". My response "well in my case it meant I didn't like school and dreaded it every Sunday nigh
Learning Environments
Jump to new posts Re: I Don't Agree with Recommendation for Son by puffin @ Today at 02:17 AM

So is having a gifted programme which isn't always successful and seems aimed at the wrong people still better than the nothing my son's school has? My best case scenario is a private government approved one day a week programme which would cost more
Identification, Testing & Assessment
Jump to new posts Re: Which test is the best? by MumOfThree @ Today at 02:03 AM

Squishy's if you're in Adelaide or Sydney I can possibly provide some suggestions. Don't know anyone in other states. But as (i think) I said earlier, the sb5 is not always well received in Australia, we personally haven't had any problems, but I ha
Identification, Testing & Assessment
Jump to new posts Re: School testing without parental consent? by ColinsMum @ Today at 01:53 AM

Originally Posted By: mountainmom2011 I learned from my dd today that they evaluated her today without asking me nor informing me. From what my dd describes it sounds like they did the Key Math assesment again. It wasn't a basic pencil and paper test
Identification, Testing & Assessment
So basically, school gets two votes and parents get one? I know this article has been linked on this forum before but every time Everyday Math is discussed, I can't help but think of it: SIMPLICIO: Are you really trying to claim that mathematics
Parenting and Advocacy
Jump to new posts Re: what to ask for in K next year by Glenn @ Yesterday at 11:00 PM

This is the reason we went early entry to kindergarten. Having a kid reading fluently and doing 3rd grade maths in kindergarten would have been a nightmare for all involved. As it was, the boredom started in second term and it was a long wait for the
General Discussion
Jump to new posts Re: Brain Child: Why I Didn’t Want to Medicate... by MumOfThree @ Yesterday at 08:53 PM

Nik we have plans to try neurofeedback, but its not easily accessible for us.
General Discussion
Jump to new posts Re: more on "Tiger Mom"... by ultramarina @ Yesterday at 08:21 PM

It's a funny thing about name recognition. A lot of people don't recognize my alma mater, nor my DH's, despite the fact that both are very selective (albeit small) colleges (DH's is in the US News top 20; mine just out). However, if they HAVE heard o
Learning Environments
Jump to new posts Re: Article on geniuses dropping out by HappilyMom @ Yesterday at 07:52 PM

This article reminds me so much of my DH! He taught himself programming in middle school and a bit of high, started volunteering his talents in high school, and in college called companies until he found one who would hire him to work remotely from h
Learning Environments
Jump to new posts Re: Article on geniuses dropping out by Nik @ Yesterday at 07:16 PM

Originally Posted By: JonLawI don't think that college is educationally necessary. In fact, I'm still not sure what exactly I was supposed to be doing there. Agreed. Although, I did get a lot out of Grad school - but I had exceptional professors
Identification, Testing & Assessment
Jump to new posts School testing without parental consent? by mountainmom2011 @ Yesterday at 07:13 PM

My 9 yo has dyslexia and over a year ago we had the school evaluate her. They determined her ineligible for a 504 and an IEP, so she has neither. I learned from my dd today that they evaluated her today without asking me nor informing me. From what
Twice Exceptional
Jump to new posts Re: WOW moment - real conversation by DeeDee @ Yesterday at 07:05 PM

Leahchris, how very exciting! Our DS has often made really sudden leaps in communication skills. And for him they do often happen around transitions, rather than when everything is staying the same. (Travel is another good stimulus; he would make
General Discussion
FWIW, my DD at 17 also finally felt great on the meds... until they quit working (after only 3 months). Neurofeedback changed her life for the better, permanently, in every way. New research is coming out daily to support Neurofeedback and it has b
General Discussion
Jump to new posts Re: Brain Child: Why I Didn’t Want to Medicate... by DeeDee @ Yesterday at 06:55 PM

Originally Posted By: MumOfThreeOriginally Posted By: deacongirlI was that girl. And I can say that I felt *more* myself on medication. I'm sorry you are being judged. Thank you for telling me that, it means a lot. She IS more herself, more produc
Identification, Testing & Assessment
Jump to new posts Re: Group ability tests vs. IQ tests by deacongirl @ Yesterday at 06:54 PM

I have nothing. But I have to get my ducks in a row for dd6. I anticipate this being an issue.
General Discussion
Jump to new posts Re: more on "Tiger Mom"... by JonLaw @ Yesterday at 06:52 PM

Originally Posted By: BostonianOriginally Posted By: Wren And what the hell is Reed, I never heard of it. Never met anyone who graduated from there. One source of selective college admissions mania is the unwillingness of many students and parents
General Discussion
Jump to new posts Re: Dd needs a boost - why is gifted great? by deacongirl @ Yesterday at 06:44 PM

Originally Posted By: squishysI don't know how what I write has anything to do with anything. But, I guess, as usual with public forums if we all don't believe the same thing then we are wrong, but to try to tell me my idea of what success means to m
General Discussion
Jump to new posts Re: Brain Child: Why I Didn’t Want to Medicate... by MumOfThree @ Yesterday at 06:36 PM

Originally Posted By: deacongirlI was that girl. And I can say that I felt *more* myself on medication. I'm sorry you are being judged. Thank you for telling me that, it means a lot. She IS more herself, more productive, more creative, more engage
General Discussion
Jump to new posts Re: Brain Child: Why I Didn’t Want to Medicate... by deacongirl @ Yesterday at 06:33 PM

Originally Posted By: MumOfThreeI can't type more now, ill come back later, when i have time to type and to think about how much to share, but really I could have written that article. The passages that don't make sense to moomin make perfect sense t
General Discussion
Jump to new posts Re: Brain Child: Why I Didn’t Want to Medicate... by deacongirl @ Yesterday at 06:30 PM

Originally Posted By: DeeDeeOriginally Posted By: Zen Scanner-The strongest outcomes pair cognitive therapies with medication. Taking a kid who has only had medication intervention off of the medication leaves them back at the starting line with no c
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