hi all
i've been on this site a million times and read the qualifiying criteria may times. What i still don't get is: Does the child need to submit IQ scores that meet the cutoff AND achievement scores that reach the cutoff? Or is it one or the other?
For example, could my DS7 be accepted with FSIQ low (due to 2e condition), but easily meeting achievement cutoffs? He hasn't had any of the achivement tests listed but i would do them if it would matter. His reading and language skills are three to five grade levels accelerated.
My goal to get DYS for him would be to use it to ensure his giftedness is taken seriously at school. We want him to be included in a reading enrichment/differentiation program that begins next year.
Every year his teachers start skeptical about his reading. His other strongpoints are arts and science..But if I hear "what you really have to look for is if he comprehends it!" one more time i am going to puke. Of course he gets it or he wouldn't read it. In K and 1st grade it has taken both teachers until April-May in the schoolyear to finally realize he understands. Then it starts up again the next year. I provide all his reading material by placing appropriate books in his backpack..
There is a great deal of prejudice about kids with PDD-NOS or AS diagnosis- everyone thinks these kids are cookie cutters of each other and they just aren't. And we aren't even sure he has PDD at all anymore but don't want to take away the label too soon and be wrong..
Anyway I feel that having a DYS credential would mitigate the skepticism that everyone feels with him.
irene
