Welcome Chelsea!
a: does this seem like a gifted child
b: if so, is there any reason to test her at this age
c: if so, how does one go about doing that?
Quick answers first.
a - sure sounds gifted to me. I would recommend reading Dr. Ruf's "Losing Our Minds: Gifted Children Left Behind." Also, you can look at some of her checklists re: levels of giftedness as seen in preschool behaviors on her site:
levels of giftedness b - We also started worrying when our DS was about 3.5 and seemed to know the kindergarten curriculum. Since he is a January bday, we wondered if we should get a waiver to send him to kindergarten when he was 4.5. In our district, IQ >130 is required as part of the early entrance criteria, so that is why we decided to get IQ testing done when DS turned 4.
c - We had a friend with a highly gifted (HG) DS who recommended a psychologist who specializes in gifted kids. I highly recommend finding someone who specializes in gifties. Check out hoagies' list:
psychologists familiar with gifted It seems that age 6 is an age thrown out as a more stable age for accurate testing. There are sometimes problems in testing the youngest. For us, testing earlier helped us go to the school before kindergarten to work as a team as to the best fit for our DS.
HTH
