My daughter is 7.5 years old and has always been a bright young girl with some empathy and anger issues. She is a September baby but we pushed her and she is in second grade as basically the youngest child. We did not think that she was ever gifted until one teacher told us to go have her evaluated. What we got from the scores and from the psychologist who gave it confuses us and hopefully someone here can help.
Full Scale IQ 127 96 Superior
Verbal Comprehension Index 108 70th Average
Visual Spatial Index 122 93rd High Average
Fluid Reasoning Index 123 94th Superior
Working Memory index 117 87th High Average
Processing Speed Index 141 >99th Very Superior
By definition she is not gifted as that would be 130. However, the psychologist said that her PSI was off the charts and that he has not seen someone that high in a long time. He said that he also has never seen anyone finish it so fast and only get one wrong which he said was a subtle error (she had time remaining on the clock). He explained that if she spent 30 more seconds on doing things that she would be way over 130, but that her "brain is not letting her slow down". He also noted that she only scored low on the Vocabulary part (50%) of VCI and not the Similarities part (84%) which he said will change when she trains herself to learn what some words mean.
This actually fits in well with what her teachers have always told us in that she is the first to finish everything by 15 - 20 minutes ahead of the class, she reads on a 4th grade level but does not always understand everything she reads.
Is this normal? Has anyone seen this or heard of this? Is this something where we should focus with her on this and get her to take this test or a different one again in a few months?
She acts out at school and does have some issues and we have always felt it was somehow related to boredom.
