Hi all, I have a son who is 7 and we recently administered the Stanford Binet because he was complaining of boredom at school (and he had previously been tested at 4 for local gifted school placement with a very high result, but didn't get lottery admission to the school). He is now in the 2nd grade at a strong public school, but in a heterogeneous classroom.
I'm just trying to understand his results better, because although they suggest he is very highly gifted, we do not necessarily see this in him. We can tell he is advanced, and he is a truly gifted artist and creator (his sketches are well beyond what most adults can do- he can construct the most amazing things with legos and blocks). So I'm just trying to understand whether a giftedness in a particular area (artistic, spacial) can still show such high results in the IQ test, or whether the artistic giftedness is simply the only way where we can see signs of his giftedness right now. He is not a terribly advanced reader (again, ahead of most of the class but not reading complicated materials or anything). His math understanding seems advanced (understands algebra concepts, etc.) but at the same time, he makes many common computational, careless mistakes.
I write this because I am meeting with the school/teacher next week to discuss how best to address his needs, but I don't want to overstate or understate them. I'd love some guidance/input based on what all of you already know about interpreting these results.
His SB5 FSIQ is 152. The factor index scores are as follows:
Fluid Reasoning (FR) - 99% (age equiv. 28 year old)
Knowledge (KN) - 96% (11yr,3mo)
Quantitative REasoning (QR) - 93 (10yr, 2mo)
Visual Spacial (VS) - 99.6% (16yr, 10mo)
Working Memory (WM) - 96 (10yr, 9mo)
I'd really love your 2 cents about these results and what they mean.
Thanks so much!
