I appreciate your patience in assisting me, especially since we may really not end up qualifying for this type of forum when this is all said and done, anyway. Thank you all for your help. I'm really hoping for the best!
Even if the 126 is accurate, that is still the 96th percentile (at least on the WISC; I assume that it would be the same for the WASI). That is still a very bright child and he would qualify for gifted services in many districts with that score as there just aren't enough kids in the 98th percentile and up to reach critical mass. Please don't feel that you need to go away should your son not reach that magical number of 130.
The other thing -- 131 is a bizarre cut-off if the mean and std deviation of the WASI is the same as the WISC. With a mean of 100 and a SD of 15, 130 is the 98th percentile. 131 is also the 98th percentile. I don't know why that one point would make a difference in qualification if the percentile is identical btwn the two.
FWIW, I'm less confident that we can pin-point exactly where someone falls than I was in the past. I do believe that IQ scores can give you a good idea of an approximation, but like all other tests they are a snapshot of one day's performance. A child who scores around 100 is unlikely to be gifted unless something else is going on, but a child who scores 126 may be. The number is close enough that I'd give him the benefit of the doubt myself.
