Cathy, I am glad that to your son they have accelerated also it. This insurance will help him to feel a little better. Your superequipped son goes to a school for? Here, the intelligence test realises the psychologists and educators that work for the government, in the school. The diagnoses of supergrant done by private centers are not valid, it happens this there. Who makes the test to the children in U.S. What test is used to diagnose the superequipped children? Here, the intelligence test only realises the children who create necessary. Sometimes, it is difficult to obtain that they realise the intelligence tests to him. They do not want to work the professionals of here much. There, they only do the test to him to all the children of the school or to which they think that they can be superequipped.
My son attends a regular public school, not a school for the gifted. Our school has no gifted program until 4th grade. They do not test the children until 3rd grade, then they use CogAT (a group ability test) to identify gifted students. Our school also does not accept private test results, although some schools in other states do. In the U.S. there is a lot of variation when it comes to gifted programs. Some states have none at all. Rules for testing and identification vary from state to state. Parents here often have difficulty obtaining services for their gifted children. I wish I could tell you that the grass is greener here
We paid for private intelligence testing (WPPSI-III) for our son which helped us advocate for acceleration. His acceleration is not considered part of the gifted program. That doesn't make much sense, but that's how they do things!
