Gifted Issues Discussion homepage Forums Identification, Testing & Assessment good test for 2.8 year old?

I don't think I am misunderstanding giftedness. In a lot of the things he does I can see his body can't keep up with his brain and that's where the frustration and behavior problems seem to come from. He's lacking in fine motor skills (like a lot of kids on this board at an early age) and he gets frustrated over things he wants to do but can't because his hands can't do it. ... like when I first thought he can't do puzzles (he would look at puzzle pieces, look at the puzzle board, try it and then throw across the room in anger) ... he was the happiest kid on earth when he figured out that I can hold the piece in my hand and he'd guide my hand into the right spot.

I have a lot of things he does recorded so I can show them to whomever will be working with him so they know how very differently he acts when he's evaluated and when left alone to do his own activities. He does zero of the obsessive and ritualistic things that my older one does that are so common in Autism. There's no regularity to what he does or doesn't. He just wants to do more challenging things. His developmental therapist couldn't get him to do much the first couple of sessions but once she got him figured out, she started bringing him things to do that are for higher age and he started to cooperate much better because it's more engaging for him and he isn't bored. I hope this makes sense? That's why I think giftedness might play a role in how he acts. He certainly doesn't seem like an average child when he'd started doing crossword puzzles, math addition and reading short sentences at 2.5 years old, not to mention all the other things he does. I know there are such things as splinter skills in Autistic children, but I thought those are directed towards one or two interests but he seems to really "get" things quick in many areas so I don't think that would be it.