Our daughter has been assessed as gifted and dyslexic and is enrolled in a "academically highly gifted" public school for 1st grade this fall.
So she's "twice-exceptional" I guess. We're pretty nervous about how she'll feel about her dyslexia at this school but are pursuing an scientific/evidence-based remediation program outside of school and are hoping to see results. We're also talking with the principal of the gifted school about accommodations and she seems pretty knowledgable and comfortable with the idea of our daughter being at the school.
Her GAI is 154 which I gather is pretty good, though I don't really understand what it means. I know that professionals look at the score vs. the percentile since there is a wide range of scores above the 99.9 percentile (aren't there any tables with more decimel points?). I don't really understand standard deviations and I'm wondering if there's a good explanation of this out there for a parent like me - without a pHD in gifted ed. After all, what is the difference between moderately gifted - highly gifted - profoundly gifted anyway? I'm straining both to understand her learning disability and her giftedness - it's complicated!
