For older DD, PRI = VCI. WMI is much lower, above average but not gifted. Processing speed is 34%ile. Not the worst in the class, but certainly getting there. She's been diagnosed as 2E. As we see it, she thinks in a different language than the rest of us use, and the translation takes a while. More complex questions just don't take any longer to answer than very simple ones.
She had no problems in the *gifted* classroom; they were set up to support relative weaknesses while pushing high-level reasoning. (Plus, if the question is hard enough, she isn't so much slower than others - it really is a bigger problem with items that are supposed to be quick recall facts.).She needs accomodations in the *regular* classroom to show what she knows. A classroom set up for very high achievers would not have worked out without the special arrangements and understandings that we now have.
I wouldn't worry! At this point there isn't any evidence of a problem yet, and the school thinks they can handle him.
