Wolf just did his Wisc yesterday. It took 2 hours. The overall is 132 and the GAI is 136 (from memory I don't have the paper in my hand yet). Now from what I understand this falls in the moderately gifted range and kids like these might benefit from some differentiated work or possibly a grade skip.
Now here's my concern. Wolf is working a minimum of two years above his age all the way up through 8th grade level. He is not pushed and is working at around ability level in all subjects (handwriting is still at age level). We're very seriously considering another skip before placing him in mainstream school (if that happens) just so he won't be bored and that still wouldn't put him at a level that would challenge him. I know kids in the local GATE program and I believe their cut off is 130. Those kids are NOTHING like Wolf. I'm talking a totally different animal. None of them would take history books home over the summer for fun.
So, yes, they are good scores, but from what I understand of the scores they don't fit my child's abilities or personality. What could cause this? The tester says he was focused and working hard the whole time they were together. He isn't suffering from summertime brain either.
He's taking the WIAT today. She said she thought he might do better on that.
It was a lot of money out of pocket that we can barely afford and now I'm wondering if it was worth it just to get numbers that don't seem to match him. She says she has experience working with gifted kids, but most of her clients are on the other end of the spectrum. She's the only tester I could find anywhere near us and that was after searching for a long time.
I'm horribly confused at this point. I'm wondering if it's just me thinking he's amazing because I'm his mom, but I'm reminding myself that EVERY teacher he has had has told me they've never worked with a kid like him before (well except one boy who designed ant habitats for a science museum when he was in high school). I'm worrying if we should just mainstream him, maybe I'm pushing him and don't mean to? But he's always the one flying ahead and I'm the one trying to slow him down a little. This is what I was afraid of before the testing, that the numbers wouldn't fit him.
