Mum2twoboys - I have read (here perhaps) that self taught early reading can actually be more of a sign of "mathy" thinking than verbal - self taught reading is strongly about decoding/pattern matching etc, different thing to raising a mini bush lawyer, and unsurprising to see a self taught reader progressing strongly in math...
I have not heard that before but it makes sense in our case as well. Dd (7) who I always assumed was more verbal than mathy (except for her passion for puzzles at an early age) because she taught herself the entire alphabet (upper and lower) and their sounds by 18 months and started sounding out words at age two. When she was tested last summer on the WISC her VCI was 124 which surprised me, and her PRI was 151.
