Thanks for answering, Dottie. I was on the fence about including the other assessment details - would it muddy interpretation or help, yk?
DS was pegged as likely gifted at 3.5 by an informed EI specialist due to his verbal precocity, high VS skills and divergent thinking. He has been diagnosed with sensory processing disorder (mostly hypersenstive), vision issues (convergence insufficiency/strabismus), dysgraphia. He fits an ADHD profile, except he's not all that hyper when he's not on sensory overload, and it's hard to narrow it to ADHD when he also has CI, sensory issues and is gifted. We've largely ruled out PDD.
The consistently poor math results confuse me, as this is a kid who asked me about negative numbers at just four, I told him to think about it like an elevator with multiple basement levels and he got it. Same thing with fractions etc. Now, if he's asked a math question he'll resist, take two paces and then give the answer.
Describing him today, he's extremely verbal, creative, divergent. He's not "mathy" per se, but he creates dynamic stuff out of weird component parts, and sees things others don't notice. He has a huge block once a pencil goes in his hand, and the vision issue is improving but he still can't handle or is resistant to densely populated papers.
Thanks for reading
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