Hi Kristi,
So glad to hear from you. It sure sounds like your son is having trouble focusing - and I checked your old posts - this has been a concern of yours for quite a while.
First question - has your son's participation in the gifted program affected his spaciness in anyway?
Second question - have you made any headway with figuing out "how gifted" your son is?
Here were some of my ideas from back then for finding out:
Ruf levels are from a book by Dr. Deborah Ruf Loosing our Minds, gifted children left behind.
You can get an idea of "how gifted" your child is by doing a talent search from one of the universities or by looking at Davidson's YSP page.
http://cty.jhu.edu/ts/index.html http://www.ditdservices.org/Articles.aspx?ArticleID=252 Or you can look at the individual tests and see if it says "superior" or "very superior" -
Truth is that there is a wide range of giftedness and a wide range of how people divide up levels of giftedness. What ReallY matters is meeting your son's needs. They will always be individual, no matter what the test says.
Third I think having him read and practice talking about it is a very good idea. My son also had a lot of trouble talking about things that weren't his ideas. It did improve with time. Watch him closely to see what kinds of questions he can answer in depth. For my son, compare and contrast two books would lead to more talking than tell me about this book - ya' know?
Best Wishes,
Trin