Thank you for the responses everyone.
Yes I’m referring to the Flynn effect. Just trying to get a feel for how realistic this score is !
Aeh, yes that’s right we have tested her twice on WPPSI. The first was age 3 at that point we were considering ‘early’ entry age 4.5 - it was required by school we were applying to as they had an earlier cut-off. We didn’t end up going to that school.
The second WPPSI we did as the 2 year re-test (we were leaving Montessori and heading into mainstream and once again needed to weigh up a grade skip as our DD is a July birthday which is the cut-off point in Australia).
The WPPSI IV she did earlier this year had a very large discrepancy (-30points) between Verbal / Non Verbal. But it just didn’t feel right (the gap). It seemed in direct contrast to what we know about her and her ‘verbal’ abilities. It didn’t feel right.
We’ve also had a really disapponting year at school (very small Catholic) - so we are moving to a new school (larger, public, gifted-friendly and streamed classes) next year.
The SB5 was recommended by a new ed psych our eldest son was seeing (who is amazing and works specifically with many gifted children). We wanted to ‘save’ the WISC V for age 8 and didn’t want to do another Weschler test so we opted for the SB5 - he also said it was good for identifying non-verbal giftedness which at that point - was what we thought our DD was.
Aeh - DDs Verbal IQ increased from 110 on the WPPSI IV to 146 on the SB5. Even with the Flynn effect that’s a huge difference right?
Thanks for the good advice, we’ll wait and watch for now and if she needs more assessing later around 8 or 9 we’ll look at it then.
