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1. Whether it is worth advocating for the GT pullout depends not only on whether she is GT, but whether the program is designed for learners with her particular profile. Often, they are best suited to learners who perform in the upper 110s and 120s cognitively, are organized and conscientious, and are motivated to/capable of producing large quantities of written work. This may or may not describe your child (or many other gifted learners). You may wish to investigate further as to the programmatic, curricular, and peer benefits of the program, and then assess them for suitability for your child specifically.

Her mixed achievement profile may reflect attentional or motivational factors, or it may hint at an actual underlying second exceptionality (e.g., gifted/learning disabled), among other possibilities.

2. Her existing scores do not appear to meet DYS criteria. If the subtests listed are all of those administered (which I know they aren't, since neither of the PSI subtests are there, and you have a PSI score), then you do not currently have all the subtests necessary for the EFI. Without knowing that this would have value to the family, there is no routine reason that the psych would have given the other two subtests. Many families here report benefits from DYS. You may be able to negotiate an add-on rate for administration of the remaining two subtests (we're literally talking about 10-15 minutes of administration time, and maybe another half hour to revise the report--unless, of course, the results are noticeably different). The other two subtests in EFI are Picture Concepts and Arithmetic. PC often tracks with Similarities, and Ar often follows DS, so it's also possible that the EFI won't be any higher than the FRI, and may even be lower.


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