Hello, I am new to the forum. Please forgive any mistakes as I am not a native English speaker.
I found this forum trying to figure out what's going on with DS5 so I can help him and I would be thankful for any insights.
My son was a precocious little boy who learnt a lot of things by himself aged 2, but suddenly stopped showing interest about anything after he begun preschool at 3.
Still, last year, aged 4, he could read and write (he basically taught himself) and he learnt in a couple of weeks how to add and substract two digit numbers in his head, and also, during the following months, some multiplication, operations with negative numbers, etc, all by himself.
As he's due to begin formal school next year and I knew he had already mastered many of the contents he's supposed to learn in first grade, I had him tested. I thought he might be gifted in maths, and I knew he wouldn't be able to access any enrichment program without an IQ test.
His WPPSI IV results were:
FSIQ 131, 98th percentile
GAI 149, 99,9th percentile.
The subtest results seem quite scattered, though. He had high overall results in the subtests related to verbal comprehension, very uneven results in the visual spatial index (block design 19, object assembly 11)and somewhat uneven results in the fluid reasoning index (matrix reasoning 18, picture concepts 13). The working memory index is high average, whereas the processing speed index is just average.
With this information, I would like to know:
-Is he likely to perform well in a standard school, provided he gets some enrichment activities, or will he be too far ahead and become bored?
-Do you think that the test results help to explain his current disengagement and lack of curiosity? He's a very social child who loves playing with his mates (which I encourage) but he consistently hides what he can do, refuses to read or to be read to and becomes angry and inmediately shuts down if he suspects we are trying to teach him something. Right now, it seems like he only wants to watch TV.
He currently attends a play based school. They don't do worksheets and they aren't supposed to learn anything they are not interested in. We also try not to put pressure on him, but I am a little concerned because he really seems too young to be so apathetic.
I would really appreciate some help!
