Hi aeh! Thank you so much for always responding. I decided to get him tested because he's been struggling with tummy pain for over a year and he's so unhappy to go to school every day. We've exhausted most of the medical options--the last one being doing an endoscopy, which makes me nervous because I don't want him put under anesthesia. I'm thinking his tummy problems might be anxiety brought on by schooling but we feel like we have exhausted the options in front of us. This morning he cried and doubled up in pain and I pushed him out the van door anyway.
I read somewhere that kids with IQs between 130-145 can usually do OK in a normal classroom with GT accomodations and since I didn't know where on the spectrum he fell, I thought getting him tested would help me realize what interventions he needed. I thought I would have my answers by getting a FSIQ and I still just don't know. I thought having an IQ of 137 would mean he would be ok in a GT classroom that follows the grade curriculum (with the exception of a few different projects) but then I look at his WRAT and see that he is operating in between a 5th grade and 9th grade level on some topics and it's no wonder he doesn't want to go to 1st grade. I'm just so confused on what he needs and how to supply it for him. I just don't understand what I need to do for him based on the scores he received.
