Hello Triplejmom, mumofthree, melmichigan, and Taminy
Thank you so very much for responding! Thanks to mumofthree, I have been frantically searching the internet on stealth dyslexia... Seriously though, thank you for bringing that up. I would never have thought of that and it was/could be certainly something to look into. After reading about it he does have a few stealth characteristics, but I attribute it more to his lovely ENFP personality. He has absolutely beautiful handwriting, has never had problems with the alphabet/sounds, no motor coordination problems, never confuses L/R, great in reading comp, great in written output for essays, his oral reading choices do match his verbal and cognitive ability...Dyslexia does run in the family though, so I guess I wouldn't necessarily rule it out totally. He seemed to like the tester, wasn't tired or sick...After meeting the school's expert in "testing" though, I was a little apprehensive. I mentioined the EXPLORE and she had no idea what it was. After speaking with her more, I found out she's a special ed teacher and teaches summer school....No experience with gifted kids and I got the feeling that she wasn't very experienced with the WIAT-III either. The school had just switched from the WJ but according to Mr. Principal, she's "certified" to administer it LOL Oh well, some of the scores just seem so off to me. I agree that a science and social studies acceleration shouldn't be a problem. Listening comprehension, essay composition, and reading comprehension were all equiv to over 12th grade and I'm just asking to go from 6th grade to 7th grade acceleration haha Maybe I should ask for higher???
