Gifted Issues Discussion homepage Forums Identification, Testing & Assessment Question about my daughter's scores

My daughter has had numerous issues since the first day of Kindergarten (she's in 3rd grade now). As part of LD testing for math, she was given the K-BIT 2 and the Woodcock-Johnson III C.

I've always suspected that she was advanced in Language Arts, and the only time she's shown spontaneous improvement in her behavior at school is when I've independently gotten her more challenging reading material than what the school was pushing on her. Her Kaufman scores were 93% for Verbal, 82% for Nonverbal, and 92% for Composite. Her W-J scores were 94% for Brief Reading, 86% for Written Expression, and 92% for Brief Achievement. I'm having trouble finding our state's requirements for "giftedness" beyond teacher recommendation and/or standardized test scores, and was wondering if her new test scores are enough to push for some in-class enrichment beyond what she is already getting in her advanced placement LA class. I don't think skipping a grade is necessarily appropriate, but she definitely needs harder spelling words, and harder books to read.

TIA,

Jennifer

Jennifer
I think you can share with the school that she needs more challenging reading and spelling for her emotional comfort. Will the scores help? It isn't clear. Some districts make accomidations for kids in the top 10% or 5% or 3%. But in my experience schools car more about an individual childs needs than numbers.
Private testing might be very helpful for you to feel more confident but schools don't uniformly trust the results or know what to do next and testers don't uniformlly step up to do more than write a letter.
Given the various possible other issues those scores might be attention getting.
Love and more love
Grinity