My son is 13 now, but back when he was 7 almost the same thing happened to our family. Sadly, this forum wasn't around, and there was no one to shake me! Sorry if this comes across a bit strong, but I still haven't fully recovered. Here goes:
We're in Massachusetts, which has no gifted programs per se, ... my brother and I were both grade-skipped without any problem and with great success).
Is it too late to stop payment on the check? Sounds like your psychologist has no idea about LOG, (level of giftedness) and deserves a wake up call.
Have you asked the school for a skip? It isn't ok for your son to be 'terribly bored' at school at age 6. Go ahead and talk to the teacher, and then make a formal written request!
With scores like your son's, most 'gifted programs' aren't going to met his needs anyway, so stop feeling sad that there is no gifted program and get to work on figuring out how to keep your son from loosing the spark of love of learning. In the meantime, start some 'emergency afterschooling.' Let your son know that for 10 minutes every day after school, he is going to do some actual learning, not doubt about it! You can let him pick the first topic.
If you do more testing, switch professionals and find someone who 'really' knows HG and PG kids. Davidson has helped my family tremendously, but they can't do magic, or 'make' a school system behave right. However, here or there, you can get tons of ideas about how to advocate and get your son what he, as an individual, needs. You can go ahead and apply to YSP with what you have, just be sure to send them as much of the raw data from the IQ test as possible.
You son may truly have EF deficits, attentional issues and slower processing skills - BUT, if the class room is boring, how can you tell if there are attentional issues? If the work is unchallenging, what's the motivation to grow in EF? Is it really slower processing or is it perfectionism from being left for too long in poor fit classroom situations? (Being given 'too easy' task after 'too easy' task can really mess with a kid's mind, and make him doubt his sanity and feel the anxious need to be 'super correct.'
Do you really expect a 6 year old boy to sit for 6 hours learning almost nothing and have perfect behavior? That wouldn't happen at my house!
Love and More Love,
Grinity
