Cricket2 - So, you are saying that you agree that her scores indicate a gifted child?
Absolutely! I was in no way mentioning the overidentification in my area to call into question your dd's scores. Her scores absolutely look like a gifted child. I am just meaning to point out that I wouldn't necessarily assume that optimally gifted (if that's where she turns out to be if you pursue IQ testing) indicates a child who will have good company in a grade level GT program. It totally depends on your community and how they fill those GT programs. Our community leans so much toward high achieving kids that it isn't easy even for MG kids to find peers in the GT classes. Sadly enough, I know of kids with 99th percentile WISC scores who aren't in the GT classes b/c they aren't consistent high achievers. I'd venture to guess that we have as many gifted kid without gifted ids as we have gifted kids with ids and I'd say with certainty that the large majority of the kids ided as gifted are high achievers, but not gifted.
Your dd's scores look like what I'd expect of a gifted kid. I'd put some time into figuring out what "gifted" means to your schools, though. If it is something significantly different than what gifted means in a psychometric sense, your dd may well need something significantly different than what they offer to the typical "gifted" kid and I wouldn't hesitate to push for more even if she isn't as far out there as some of the kids whose parents post here.
