Gifted Issues Discussion homepage Forums Identification, Testing & Assessment Can we apply for DYS with these scores

How is that all working out c-dog? Have you been able to find some peers for him to hang out with? What have you tried and what seems to work?
love and more love,
Grinity

We have just started down this gifted road. My DS (see, I am learning the lingo...) is very friendly and personal, but has trouble keeping long term friends. We have not searched out other gifted children yet, but may do so.

We have not started school yet either. (other than pre-school). His birthday is a couple weeks before the cutoff (k starts at 5 here). But we held him back because we did not want him to be the youngest in his class (I was growing up. It is not fun being the youngest/littlest). The ironic part is we may end up pushing to have him skip grades...

We recently changed him from an unstructured play based pre-k (where he wasn't doing well) to a structured academic K/transitional. He is doing great so far and loves it (fingers crossed).

Once again, thanks for the help.

DS had 19 in Block design and Picture Concepts and 17 in Matrix Reasoning and that worked out to 152 performance IQ, so I would guess they all max out at 19.

DrinkMoreWater,

On some tests, even if an older child gets every question right, they can't get the top score, because the frequency of children in the population who could get every question right goes up with age.

Thanks for all the feedback.

Yes, I have the subtests for WJ

Letter-Word Id - 156
Passage Comp - 135
Reading Flue - 140
Word Attach - 141

Calc - 129
Applied Problem - 133
Math Fluency - 111

Spelling - 146
Writing Samples - 146

In the report they also commented my DS had troubles with simple math (1+3 on paper). I found that odd because he knows all his addition / subtraction upto 20. My only guess is he took the WPPSI and WJ back to back (with WJ last) and he was getting tired.

On the WPPSI-III my daughter scores are as follows:

Verbal 150
Performance 125
Full Scale 144
General Language 146

She has the achievement test scores in two different areas.

On the test report it shows the verbal of 150 as greater than 99.9%. My question is whether to avoid the portfolio requirement does the verbal have to over 150 or is right at 150 sufficient. I was a little confused by the 150+.

Since the verbal does qualify with that 150, if the achievement also hits the mark you can probably do the application without a portfolio. Good luck!

Sorry, it took me so long to respond with the raw score. It took a while to get them.

For a 5 yr 5 mo:
Verbal: 129
Performance: 148

Information: 29
Vocab: 32
Word Reasoning: 21

Block Diagram: 38
Matrix: 25
Picture: 23

So, I guess our psychologist was incorrect when she said he did not miss any in Block Diagram and Matrix questions. (which originally confused me). Also, it looks like he is just a bit shy of qualifying (one more question right...).

On a side note: our psychologist wanted to see how our DS reacted when he wanted to do a task and failed (part of the emotional issues we are having). She informally gave him the block diagram test for high schoolers (I am not sure of the test name, but my son thought the block diagram test was "the best game ever" and wanted it for Christmas...). He correctly created ever one of them very quickly.

Thanks,
Chiledog (aka c-dog...)