I was wondering about vision too, and also if you had a full neuropsych evaluation back when your dd was given the WISCs previously. Both of my dds have had issues with reading - and both did many of the same things you've mentioned about your dd above with respect to reading - but both dds were struggling for two very different reasons. Oldest dd (now 10) had vision challenges (tracking, convergence insufficiency, double vision which caused one eye to shut off, and severe lack of peripheral vision). My younger dd is more obviously intellectually gifted - she is one of the incredibly driven high-achieving types of gifted kids
- and although she started reading on her own at a young age, she didn't progress as fast as most other children and by first grade she was only at grade level. She went through educational testing this spring that showed a large relative weakness in associative memory - in her case, her brain has a tough time remembering associations between pictures and words.
If you haven't had neurospych testing, it would most likely be helpful in sorting out the issues - although... I'll add a caveat here... it has to be a neuropsych who understands gifted kids and reading. We were concerned about my ds12's reading development at his last neuropsych evaluation last year (fluency #s falling since previous eval, inability to summarize, reluctance to read, not reading front-to-back of books etc - yet still reading quickly and with a huge vocabulary). Our neuropsych still insisted no problem - and now 1 year later ds hit a huge bump in the reading road at school during his humanities course that imo is screaming stealth dyslexia. Soooo... I recommend a neuropsych and I also caution about it - I'm sooooo not helpful, eh? If you seek out a neuropsych, be sure to ask prior to testing about their experience with gifted kids with reading challenges.
Best wishes,
polarbear
