She is doing great academically in school, it's socially where she falters. She also has a lot of trouble with organization, time management and remembering/following instructions, all of which the dr relates to her low processing speed. She also has poor fine motor skills.
Some of her test results:
WJ-III Achievement
Reading fluency 126/96%
Applied problems 134/99%
Writing fluency 119/90%
Writing samples 106/65%
Brief Achievement 137/99%
Written expression 113/80%
WJ-III Cognitive Abilities
Pair cancellation 105/63
Visual matching 97/43%
Decision speed 114/83%
Beery VMI-6
VMI 121/92%
Visual perception 111/77%
Motor coordination 98/45%
The report mentions that there are clinically significant indicators for ADHD, but because she is doing well in school it should be ruled out. The recommendations he gave mostly revolve around developing her social skills. He also suggested having her take outside enrichment classes at CTD, as well as allowing her to pre-test for each new unit of work in the classroom and allowing her to skip areas she already is competent in. He didn't give any real recommendations on how to deal with the processing speed unfortunately.
We had her tested for the Chicago Public Schools gifted schools last year and while she scored just over the minimum required, she wasnt offered a place, I presume because they don't get too many 2nd grade spots opening up and there were better scores ahead of her. I had her test again this year, I believe they get more spaces in 3rd grade so there may be a chance for her. I didn't get any of the report back in time to ask for any accommodations in the testing unfortunately. I will be sending a copy in to them though, in the hope that they'll give it consideration.
We live in a small single school district right now, and while they do have enrichment within the school (she's been in reading since day 1 of K and in math since this year), they don't really have an official gifted program. A downside to living in a wealthy suburb is that almost all other parents in our situation go ahead and send their children to one of the private gifted schools rather than keep them in the public school, something we can't really afford to do. The school district in the next town has a more established program, but it's still pull out rather than dedicated classrooms. The only public gifted schools in the state are the Chicago ones and the private ones start at $17k p/yr, which is about double our mortgage.