@ Polar Bear/Master of None - we didn't pay a lot for this thank goodness. Tester specializes in autism and developmental disorders not giftedness.
His issues at school relate to defiance, not following through with directions, and lack of organizing information. And impulsive behaviors! Yet the principal feels he will be just fine and isn't that gifted and LD kid. And she commented that she has worked with that before.
Subtest scores were lower on processing visual information. I asked what part sensory overload could play in this. I'm not so much upset with the scores as that we did not have the information tied to any possible treatments/interventions. What if he needs visual therapy of some type? How can we help focus, etc?. I was concerned that the "where's Waldo" type of visual test may have caused visual sensory overload and that effected the low processing speed score.
Ds is very good at playing dominos and has been very intuitive since the first time we played on maching and seeing the correct dominos. So I know he can process visual spatial info quickly and correctly. I'm wondering if it is an attention issue? If so, what therapy can we begin? It seems many parents here have audio/visual therapies to help their children.
I don't know. I suppose time will tell. I just wonder why so many very intelligent individuals have children with (forgive me for phrasing it this way) "issues". My husband is a chemist and works with many very highly intelligent and very educated people. There are five people in his lab right now, and with our ds included, 3 out of 5 have children who qualify for ADHD. Does that seem odd? What does this say about intelligence and neurological issues? My best friend from HS married a validectorian who is very gifted in many ways, and their ds is diagnosed as orderline ADHD. It just seems that intelligence has some very strong correlation to impulsive tendencies and sensory issues.
I guess we just limp along the best we can. The school will not help in any way until our ds suffers academically. If he is 2e he will be able to compensate for many of the issues he is facing. I've been told that the next school will be much more helpful in 1st grade. I just pray with maturity he will be able to make better choices and hopefully work at learning ways to focus and compensate.
