When DH and I first met the psych. who gave our DD9 her WISC, we showed her a Microsoft Word. doc. that DD has created at age 8. It wasn't just a story - she had gathered together crazy fonts, colors, pictures from the internet and created this kaleidoscope of a document. Rarely was anything vertical or horizontal. The psych. couldn't believe that an 8 year old had created it. Currently, DD produces numerous stories and graphs on Word and PowerPoint (I think she did 6 or 7 this holiday weekend), and they don't look like anything I see coming from other kids. She's in a writing club, and while the other kids write in a linear fashion, DD's always look rather crazy and her characters have these wild viewpoints - all the while it's color and shape and tilted sentences. I will also point out that a lot of it seems disjointed. Her one character will yell something and then something else will happen, and it's hard to keep track sometimes of the story, but the story is so visually beautiful...
So, I wonder how to help her pull coherent stories together without losing the wackiness factor that is so fabulous. I won't get any help from the school right now (sadly). It's all boring worksheets. DD's Perceptual Reasoning was her highest score on the WISC (matrix reasoning highest). Am I correct in that indicates a visual spatial kid? And would strong visual spatial skills account for out of the box writing? Another thought just came to me - how is this going to play out in school? Right now the teacher ignores her multi colored, extravagantly designed essays and just grades the content. DD insists that she just can't write in black and white.
Oh, other point is that she has ADHD inattentive type if that means anything. It accounts for her horrible spelling (which she will fix if she has the time).
