And if so what tests did you use to determine it? At what age? Are there other tests you used to determine your child was HG+ or PG?
I don't know what my IQ is, although I think I have a reasonably good idea based on my placement in classes in school, how well I did in those classes, how little I paid attention in school, combined with my SAT etc scores and... in hindsight.. I am an extremely intense and passionate personality and I go way farther "all in" and in more detail when I work on a project than most of my acquaintances... so I wonder now if part of that is a gifted thing?
I have IQ #s for each of my children - for my ds we first tested for a gifted program in the school district, because he was one of those kids who when he opened his mouth and spoke at 3, other adults jaws dropped. A friend recommended we test for the school district gifted program. Later on he had another IQ test as part of an eval for 2e. And he's had more since from school district and repeated neuropsychs all as part of advocating for his 2e.
My dds also had IQ testing as part of screening for 2e (one is, one isn't). Each child has had the WISC and the WJ-III Test of Cognitive Abilities. Personally I like the WJ-III best because I've received more detailed info from it.
I ask because I've been feeling a bit uncomfortable in some of these threads because I don't really KNOW "how gifted" my DS15 is because he has never had any sort of formal IQ testing.
Try not to feel uncomfortable. The reason most of us are here is we are looking for help with advocacy etc. I personally do not think that the IQ number is the end-all definition of what type of services and classes any of our children need in school - I feel strongly that each child is an individual and that the gut feelings we have about our children's needs, as parents, are our best guidepost in advocating. The flip side to that, however, is that sometimes it's necessary to have testing and have ability/achievement scores to share when advocating so that school staff understand you're not just any parent off the street who just thinks their child is really smart.
My older DD is not gifted and I do have her IQ somewhere in the piles of IEP documents and and testing done for her LD. I wasn't that concerned by the exact score and she was listed as above average in intelligence, but because learning disability she struggled with achievement.
Are you sure she isn't gifted? Depending on the nature of her LD, her IQ scores might not reflect her true intelligence - for instance, and FSIQ may be including subtest scores that are depressed due to the nature of her challenges, while other subtest scores might be in the gifted range, but you'd not necessarily realize that due to averaging of scores - unless you had the full report with subtest scores.
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I'm not likely to get my son tested at this point as it will have no direct effect on H.S. class placement. I've just become insatiably curious. [/quote]
