My son spends time with a psychologist every week for social skills. She knows him and doesn't see any cause for concern (she has ruled autism, for example) but she has cautioned that evidence of many learning disabilities only emerge once a child starts school. I imagine it's too early to tell but IF there is some other challenge we aren't aware of, does anything here provide a clue?
Curious--how did she reach the "rule-out" conclusion? Why is he specifically working on social skills?
There are a lot of different kinds of learning challenges that can kind of overlap and be hard to identify just through informal observation--I've learned that here.
Giftedness can really mask some underlying deficits. The remark where your DS thought the tester was angry and decided to cheer her up caught my attention. My verbally gifted 2E DS would do the same thing, exactly.
I would want formal diagnostic testing. The NP who worked with my DS also tested my friends' two 2E boys. Her testing really teased out some important diagnostic information for all three of our kids--all gifted, all with challenges that are different in nature and require different interventions. It's really important information to know about your child. I sure wish I'd "known then what I know now" in regard to my DS.
