I get a little annoyed by the stereotype that girls are naturally more gifted verbally.... Of course that's due to the fact that I have a boy who is gifted verbally - according to his WISC scores he is in the 99%ile for VCI (he scored very high on all three subtests) but scored much lower in the PRI. I think often times schools don't bring out the verbal side of boys because they are not as tolerant of boys interests. One excample, my son's creative writing is often focused on strife and adventure... he has been REPEATEDLY disciplined for it. He has been told he is not permitted to use the phrase "dark forces" in his creative writing, for example (that is just one example of MANY). It has gotten a little better as he gets higher in the grades.... but it's been a nightmare really. He's gotten in trouble for having (or writitng about) dinosaurs fight! I am not kidding. He said "they want us to be like girls - the girls have the dinosaurs set up house and take care of children and the teachers praidse them for that! But look at them! Look at how they look - obviously they were fighting not playing nice all day, why else would they have spikes and such!" That was when he was in PRE-k. Anyway, I digress... To answer your question, I have one very verbally gifted boy and my other appears to be more gifted in the spatial perceptual/PRI area (but he hasn't been tested yet). Neither has ever taken the CogAT.
