My daughter recently took the WISC-IV and got a really wide spread in her scores. The school unfortunately thought nothing of it. Because they only recognize the FSIQ, they will not provide gifted accommodation (she missed the FSIQ cutoff, but would easily qualify if they'd look at her GAI). Even more disturbing, they seem to be ignoring the red flag raised by the wide discrepancies in her score. I understand their motivation for ignoring the high scores (they have a cap on GT enrollment), but I don't understand why they would ignore the discrepancies.
Just now I shared her scores with a psychologist outside the school system, and she immediately suggested further assessment with the Stanford-Binet. She suspects 2E and wants to explore.
So now I have two questions for all of you:
1. What will the SB5 show that the WISC-IV doesn't?
2. In your experience, will having results from another test taken outside the school assessment procedure help at all in terms of the school?
Given the school's seeming indifference about any of this, it seems to me necessary that I bring in an outside consultant. On the other hand, if they're not responsive to results from a test that they administered, why would they suddenly become responsive to someone/thing else? Plus, bringing in an outside consultant seems somehow aggressive to me, even though I don't want it to be. Has anyone else done this and had it gone well? and if so, how did you approach it?
