My son just had a full neuropsych evaluation because of some emotional intensity issues. He will be 4 in a couple weeks.
He was diagnosed with SPD (mostly auditory issues) and anxiety. His FSIQ was 121 with a SB visual spatial score over 130 (and his verbal VS subtest was a 17). We were pretty sure he was gifted, and honestly I was surprised his IQ wasn't higher. The psych said that he expected his score to increase with age, which surprised me. I know that he's young, but I also thought IQ was stable. He also said that FSIQ over 135 didn't really exist (not that it was rare but didn't really count). I really liked the psych, but they aren't gifted specialists (no such thing here). I've wondered as he gets older and we look to reevaluate if we shouldn't go somewhere else to get an accurate picture.
One thing I was really unclear on (and I'm waiting for clarification) was that SB Visual Spatial score was 132 but his Wide Range Assessment of Visual Motor Abilities visual spatial score was 96. That's a pretty big discrepancy!! I guess I don't understand what each of the tests measures and what would explain that difference.
I think I just talked around a lot of questions. Here they are:
1) How stable is an IQ at 3?
2) Is it reasonable to believe that his IQ will increase (to the 130 cutoff for our district's gifted program)?
3) Thoughts on the 135 IQ score cutoff
4) Thoughts on gifted evaluation with a specialist at some point in the future (age 6-8)
5) What would explain visual-spatial discrepancy?
Thanks.
