Hi everyone! I have yet another question. (Can I just say how grateful I am to have found this board? Everyone is so helpful, and I don't feel like a stage mother talking about my gifted kid!)
DS4 was tested in November, about a week before his 4th birthday. He was tested with the WPPSI and WJ-III. His WPPSI scores do not qualify him, although his verbal score got pretty close at 147. Rats! Anyways, I was thinking of using his achievement testing scores, but I'm not sure if they will qualify him for two reasons.
The first reason is that he was scored as a first grader because he was beyond the norms for kindergarten. After posting his scores here, it was explained to me (his mildly gifted on a good day, mother hahaha)that he was off the charts for kindergarten, so they based his scores on a first grader. How would this present as far as a DYS application piece? When looking at his scores, they aren't that impressive (relatively speaking of course!) but knowing that he was scored as a child 2 years older than he is, I would imagine they would have been qualifying scores for DYS.
Just as an FYI, his broad reading composite was 129 (97%) letter-word identification 136 (99%) reading fluency 121 (92%)
The second issue was that he did not receive a valid score for math fluency. The scores he did receive for math were calculation 122 (93%) and applied problems 97 (42%) He had never done math before, he didn't even know what a + or - was, so I wasn't expecting anything mind blowing for the math. We mostly wanted a picture of his reading ability to support an early K admission.
Does DYS require a complete test for the achievement test portion? (Forgive me if the answer is posted clearly on the requirements page and I missed it!)
It's likely he will be retested in a year or two because we will not be staying in the area we are in now, and I'm expecting to need other testing for other programs. Plus, it will have been over 24 months since the WPPSI.
Thanks to everyone here who has been so helpful and accepting!
