herenow - I'm going to assume the school would want to do their own testing after we present them with the results, but honestly, I want to know, now, for my own knowledge where Ethan's at. My step-mother is convinced that nearly all his behaviors are due to him being gifted, while my husband is convinced he's 100% ADHD. I'm personally not sure it's that clear-cut, either way.
Ethan's teacher has been pretty good so far, but we haven't really challenged her much, beyond adjusting homework to his level (replacing Moody Judy books with Harry Potter). Our experience with K and 1st lead me to believe the school is fairly open-minded to adjusting work to a particular kids' level, but the problem is they still want the kid to ALSO do all the regular work/tests, which is what is really bothering me. Ethan gets basically straight 100's (sometimes marks off for handwriting/not capitalizing letter) and is nearly always bothering his classmates by being silly, destroying things (tearing up paper, crumbling erasers, etc) getting up out of his seat, OR, having a freak-out (as I call them) when moving from one subject to another when he feels he hasn't finished his work to perfection.
I guess I just feel like he might need a totally different environment from traditional school to really excel!
aculady - I've heard that. I'm assuming the psych's diagnostician uses Naglieri because they see very young children in addition to many ESL/non-English speaking patients (the area we live is predominantly hispanic.) I'm very interested in having the WJ testing done in addition to the Naglieri, because Ethan is VERY verbal.
