I'm very new here although I was active in the past on the baby center gifted board. My son is newly 8.
The biggest issue I am facing is trying to find ways to support my son while at the same time not undermining the school's positions. He is not a poster child for a school gifted program. He generally refuses to do his work accurately or neatly. He could care less about pleasing the teachers and sees no reason to spend most of his day in school since it is BORING!
He has been independently tested twice as profoundly gifted once at 4 and again at 7 but due to his school performance is not a candidate for the gifted program. (Not that a pull out would work anyway. He would never do the double work.) He has terrible asynchronous development issues and has been diagnosed as 2x SPD (sensory seeker type.) He is not a candidate for acceleration due to his lack of emotional and social maturity.
He is currently in a private school but lacks interaction with both age and skill peers.
Reading these threads has helped me to see that many of the steps we are taking now are ones that others have tried with apparent success or at least not noticable harm. I look forward to learning more about your issues and what has worked and not worked for the rest of you as we try to take things a day or a month at a time right now.
