My understanding is that VCI is a measure of 'what the child knows' and strongly associated with 'thinking power.' It's also associated with verbally expressive children who aren't generally shy or acting shy because of feeling unsafe with a particular tester.
So a really outgoing child with speech issues, who is understandable to the tester, will score very high if they are able to share what they know with the tester by talking. It isn't so much a measure of 'how verbal is this child' as a measure of 'how able is this child to show what she knows using verbal communication.'
Mumof3 - That is a very high score, indeed. There is now way to know if that represents an actual LOG, or if the LOG would have been higher except for ceiling issues. You may want to post the individual subscale scores to see if we and help guess at that. Eventually, after age 6, you might consider a WISC just to 'see how things are going.'
Sorry you are having that 'denial issue' - would achievement test help? What about working the 'mom network' to get a hold of 'end of year' tests for kindy, 1st and 2nd grade so you can see for yourself what is taught in schools? That helped me. If school is still in session the best help is to sit in classrooms and observe, both your child's current peers and age+1, age+2, age+3.
Hope that helps!
Love and More Love,
Grinity
