1. When did you first suspected giftedness in your child?

From childhood�mine did not sleep at all during the day as a baby. (Thank God she slept at night!) She had a very long attention span and could watch TV for 1-2 hour stretches. (I know that is bad, but mommy needed the break! At least it was educational.)

2. What milestones/traits (gross motor skills, fine motor skills, verbal skills, literacy skills, mathematical skills, social) really made you suspect giftedness?
Under two years
� First word � 4 months � �Quack� (courtesy of Wiggles)
� 16 months � knew ABC�s by recognition and sounds and knew how to count to 20
� 20 months � knew nursery rhymes, songs, and speaking in short sentences

2 to 2.5 years �
� working 24 piece puzzles with amazing speed (left to right, right to left, top to bottom, bottom to top)
� Memorizing books read to her once or twice
� Could spell simple words
� Was learning 2 foreign languages
� Knew the names of and words to most songs she had heard before
� Placed in pre-school class of kids that were a year older
Preschool recommended testing. PhD evaluated with the Brigance Diagnostic Inventory of Early Development and Developmental Test of Visual-Motor Integration. The results were as follows based on age equivalents.
1. Body parts: 4.5 years (receptive) and 5.0 years (expressive)
2. Colors: 6.0 years
3. Shapes: 6.0 years
4. Qualitative/Quantitative Concepts � 5.5 years
5. Visual Discrimination � 6.6 years
6. Recites Alphabet - 5.9 years
7. Uppercase Letter Recognition � 6.3 years
8. Lower Case Letter Recognition � 6.0 years
9. Number Concepts � 5.3 years
10. Numeral Comprehension � 5.5 years
11. Listening Comprehension � 6.0 years
12. Visual-Motor Integration � 3.0 years

At 3 years
� DD went to Montessori school where she was accelerated into the intermediate class with 4 and 5 year olds.
� VERY curious about everything
� Learned to read at 3.5 years old

At 4 years
� DD was moved up to private Kindergarten class from Preschool. Kindergarten teacher was HG and though DD had an audio visual and selected photographic memory.

At 5 years, she tested out of public Kindergarten and went into 1st Grade.
� Top student in accelerated 1st Grade.
� DD has a very fast processing speed and is a �1st time learner� retains information.

3. Did your child have any delays? If so what area (gross motor skills, fine motor skills, verbal skills, literacy skills, mathematical sills, social)?Gross and fine motor skills were the last things to develop, but typically right in line with age level. DD walked 2 weeks after she turned one year.

4. Is your child 2E? If they are did they have other signs besides the obvious, more quantifiable ones? Told us to watch autism signs...doctor seemed concerned over large head circumference. Someone in forum mentioned Asperger�s. After looking at characteristics that may run in the family. DD has problems with implied comprehension. She also is very sensitive to noises. Vacuums, toilets flushing, and fans drive her crazy, but she is okay with shrill noises like fire alarms at school. This has improved with age, but is still there.

5. Has your child been tested?
Yes � Brigance Diagnostic Inventory of Early Development and Development Test of Visual-Motor Integration at 2 years (closer to 3) and WISC-IV at 6 years. Tested gifted to moderately gifted, but examiner said she didn�t push and based on feedback in the results meeting, she suspected that DD�s IQ was higher.

6. Is your child across the board gifted or quite asynchronous? If so what are his/her strengths and were they obvious from a young age? Mine is asynchronous. Very high left brain skills, but has a weakness with implied comprehension (above age level, but not by much). Gross and fine motor skills are only slightly above age level, but rest of skills are typically 3 to 6 years above age level.

7. When your child was young (baby/toddler/preschooler), was their development fairly even or did they excel more in certain areas (gross motor skills, fine motor skills, verbal skills, literacy skills, mathematical skills, social)?
Mine accelerated with processing speed, verbal, literacy, and math skills. Social skills were great with adults, but not with kids her age.