Hi,
My son had the "gifted testing" done at age 9 and his GAI was at the 99.9th %ile. They only assessed Verbal Comprehension and Perceptual Reasoning with the WISC. They did not assess Working Memory or Processing Speed. To qualify you needed a GAI of 98%ile. He was placed in a gifted program and did well until he hit high school where things fell apart. We recently had a new psych ed conducted to see if there was something that we were missing or if he was just truly bored and doesn't "see the point" as he claims. The scores seem to be significantly lower than previously. We were wondering what could account for the differences. According to this testing he does not qualify for the gifted program.
The new scores are:
WISC-V Scores Percentile Descriptor FULL SCALE IQ 87 High Average
Verbal Comprehension Index 95 Superior
Similarities 95 Superior
Vocabulary 91 Superior
Visual Spatial Index 79 High Average
Block Design 63 Average
Visual Puzzles 91 Superior
Fluid Reasoning Index 66 Average
Matrix Reasoning 63 Average
Figure Weights 63 Average
Processing Speed Index 98 Very Superior
Coding 84 High Average
Symbol Search 99 Very Superior
Working Memory Index 94 High Average
Digit Span Combined 63 Average
Picture Span 95 Superior
