My other children were identified as gifted/highly gifted once starting school but never displayed any advanced milestones. My youngest is very, very different. When I fist saw the things he was doing around 2 years old it was shocking to me. I think that is what is so confusing about all of this. Out of all my kids he is the only one at this point needing special accommodations.
The criteria required to participate in the WPPSI study was to have kids with previous test scores or milestones that showed HG+. It seems there would be a problem with the re-norming if these kids were showing up as not gifted at all under the new guidelines.
Who knows though. My son may not be a good test taker. I will probably wait a few years and have him take the WISC-IV. These tests are not too important except that they are required to get access to so many gifted services.
