I am a 25 year old female who was a preemie-33 weeks, 3 lbs 15.5 oz. I have cerebral palsy as a result of complications of my premature birth (or perhaps cerebral palsy caused prematurity--doctors still don't know the answer to that question. My mom had a threat of miscarriage her entire pregnancy with me). As you can probably imagine from cerebral palsy, I am not gifted (although I do have strengths)and have a severe LD. My cognitive profile is as follows on WAIS III (adult Weschsler IQ test): Verbal IQ 135, Performance IQ 73, for an average full-scale IQ. My deficits are in maintaining interest on task, learning and understanding new information, reading comprehension and combination and structuring. I am better at things that follow a more linear logic.
I hope I don't offend you by that, but I think you should be fortunate that your son is gifted enough to get into a GT program, because things could be much worse.
Last edited by asiral; 05/17/09 12:39 PM.
