I'm hoping that someone can help me with trying to wrap my head around all this. My daughter is 7.5 and is in second grade. We just moved this year to a new school which is a million times better than our last school!! Last year in 1st grade was awful, she couldn't read, didn't know most her of her phonics, was very anxious and didn't want to go to school. We begun to suspect a learning disability like dyslexia (my MIL is dyslexic). So we requested that the school test her. They did the WPPSI-III test:
Block Design 11
Information 9
Matrix Reasoning 15
Vocabulary 14
Picture Concepts 12
Word Reasoning 13
Coding 19
Verbal 110
Performance 116
Processing Speed 97
Full 123
Then the Wechsler Test:
Word Reading 98
Reading Comprehension 104
Pseudoword Decoding 98
Composite 97
Numerical Operations 90
Math Reasoning 112
Composite 100
Language Comprehension 114
Oral Expression 130
Composite 127
Based on these scores the school told us that she didn't have a learning disability and that she was smart and would catch up.
Now we have moved and started a new school. This school administers the CogAT test to all second graders at the start of the year. Her scores on this were:
Verbal 124
Quantative 125
Nonverbal 104
Composite 120
She is currently on an IEP for speech and she has a diagnosis of autism spectrum disorder, she is high-functioning like aspergers. We have been told she has ADD but I disagree. She gets pulled out to the resource room for extra reading help..she is just about at grade level.
Well then this week I get a letter home saying that the school wants to test her for their gifted program. I'm so confused!!! Firstly I thought her scores were not quite high enough to be considered gifted and secondly she is struggling to keep at grade level. We have even considered holding her back a grade but never have. Any insight would be very helpful, thank you :-)
