Hi,
Ok. So dyspraxia is a theme for us as you can note from my response to the other thread.
Last week we were informed that our son, 8, had a VCI in the very high superior range (School District Psychologist said most likely it is even higher) with all the other scores on the WISC-IV that involved fine motor skills or fine motor learning scored from 20 to 50 points lower!!
We knew our son had dyspraxia and we have always thought of him as bright, but we had no clue that either issue was a big deal for him. We were never told dyspraxia could have such a horrible effect on the expression of ability.
We're stunned and overwhelmed. We are doing vast amounts of research to understand both the dyspraxia and the giftedness. However, we are confused on how to approach the two together. Very little is available for the special needs, gifted child.
Our state does very little about gifted education and our school district only clusters kids who are teacher and performance identified.
SIGH.
Suggestions and support highly needed and welcome.
Willa Gayle
