My son is 11 and well, difficult. He always has been, since he was a baby. He is also very bright, which almost makes things more difficult. We have finally scheduled him with a neuropsychologist because the behaviors are starting to scare me. Just 2 days ago he broke a pencil in anger, threw pencils twice, tried to grab things out of my hand, and kicked down a baby gate, breaking it and hurting his foot. He has always had anger problems, but they seem worse lately, perhaps because he is getting bigger so the tantrums seem bigger. A list of behaviors/symptoms we have noticed is here:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/...ZFcvZNE/edit?authkey=CLPmnbsP&hl=en# Anyway, the neuropscyh's office asked me to bring in any previous testing so I got a copy of his IQ test from when he was 7 years 11 months old. These are the results:
Verbal Comprehension:
Similarities 17 99th percentile
Vocabulary 18 99.6th percentile
Comprehension 16 98th percentile
Perceptual Reasoning
Block Design 15 95th Percentile
Picture Concepts 15 95th Percentile
Matrix Reasoning 13 84th Percentile
Working Memory
Digit Span 13 84th percentile
L-N Sequencing 14 91 percentile
Processing Speed
Coding 7 16th percentile
Symbol Search 9 37th percentile
The index scores are :
Verbal Comprehension IQ 142, 99.7 percentile
Perceptual Reasoning IQ 127 96 percentile
Working Memory IQ 120 91 percentile
Processing Speed IQ 88 21 percentile
Full Scale IQ 128 97 percentile
GAI IQ 142 99.7 percentile
At the time the psychologist told us that he had Processing Speed problem, but that he was intelligent enough to compensate. She warned that he may need extra time on tests as he got older, but so far that is NOT an issue...he was always one of the first one done with tests in school. He has always been a straight A student.
I know that Processing speed can be lower in gifted children, but this much lower seems much more than that. Do you think that it plays a part in any of the other issues we are having, or is unrelated?
