Originally Posted by Displaced
I keep hearing of gifted children reading at 2-3 years old, and I feel that since DS is gifted he should not be behind.
Some gifted kids learn to read at 2/3 but not all of them. Gifted children can be quite different. I know a few gifted kids that didn't really read till 2nd grade and then picked it up extremely quickly and were way above average by 3rd grade. Reading is very developmental and some kids are just not there yet.

I would say don't worry so much except that school expectations seems to be a real problem. If you look over the K curriculum you will find that the material is really very simple, and takes a huge amount of repetition. Since you have the testing and it shows he doesn't have any obvious learning difficulties I would back off a bit till he is a tab bit older if you can.