I wonder how often a child would come up with score that are so unusually skewed.
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I just would hate to see a kid with a 129 Full scale, but VIQ or PIQ well into the 130s or 140s gatekepted out of a gifted program that might do them a world of good.
This is an old thread, but I can't help resurrecting it to say "hear, hear!"
My daughter is in exactly this situation. Big spread in scores, FSIQ just below the cutoff, GAI and VCI well into gifted territory, but zero accommodation because of the FSIQ.
It's very frustrating. I wish the publisher were more clear about the need (not the option) to use GAI when there is a big discrepancy--if indeed this is what they intend. In states that provide funding only for X number of gifted, there is a disincentive to properly identify all gifted. So the FSIQ, as long as it remains optional and not officially verboten in these instances, remains king.
