1. When did you first expected giftedness in your child?
Older: Age 7
Younger: 3 days
2. What milestones/traits (gross motor skills, fine motor skills, verbal skills, literacy skills, mathematical sills, social) really made you suspect giftedness?
Older: Nothing until he sped through 2nd and 3rd grade math at age 7 after not even being able to count to 10 a few months earlier.
Younger: Put his pacifier in his mouth at 3 days old. Talked at 10 months. Read at age 2. That sort of thing.
3. Did your child have any delays? If so what area (gross motor skills, fine motor skills, verbal skills, literacy skills, mathematical sills, social)?
Older: Lots. Speech relative to his brother, reading relative to his brother, everything relative to his brother really.
Younger: Some mild motor delays.
4. Is your child 2E? If they are did they have other signs besides the obvious, more quantifiable ones?
Older: Yes, dyslexia, ADHD, auditory processing disorder, visual problems.
Younger: Just visual problems.
5. Has your child been tested?
Yes for both.
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?
Older: Now he is less asynchronous, but he reading and math skills used to be completely opposite.
Younger: Gifted across the board. Though his strengths have always seemed to be more verbal, but when he was tested it the PRI was about a standard deviation higher than the VCI.
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 sills, social)?
Older: Fairly even, though it seemed delayed overall.
Younger: Verbal, literacy, and math skills far outpaced motor skills.
Both kids test HG+ now, though the older one's IQ tested below average when he was 7.
