Hi, I really appreciate any advice on this. My oldest two kids score right about 3sd above mean.
My third dd will turn 5 in about two weeks. She seems to show all the signs and in some ways seemed to be ahead of my first two kids. Because of her birthday she missed K this year. We tried to get her into early entrance this year and had her tested by the school district this summer.
They used the WPPSI and she only scored 114
So we thought that was off. We just had her tested today by a tester skilled in gifted. She did the SB5 and again only scored 116........
uggghh
She started sounding out words and reading easy readers about age 3 3/4. Did 24 piece puzzles before age 2. She loves math and is working in the 1st grade workbooks at home. So I guess I just thought she'd be closer to her siblings. Maybe not as high but at least moderatly gifted.
How likely is it that sibling can show a difference of this much in IQ?
Also,the tester noted her high areas were Visual Spational and sometimes these kids can make big leaps at various times and she may do that. However, the tester also noted that since she's had two scores in the same range it's probably fairly accurate.
I guess maybe I'm just having a hard time accepting that maybe this child won't be going to the gifted school with her siblings. I don't know....
Thanks
R
My gut reaction would be to question whether your dd has any learning issues that could cause her to score lower than her "true" score (especially since you have indicated that she does better with VS parts than with other parts). From your description of her development, she certainly sounds gifted. Plus, if the scores were really accurate, that would be like a 30-point difference between siblings, right? 2 SD between siblings? that sounds awfully large.
I thought the SB5 was geared toward VSLs. I'd ask the resident gurus here more specifically about the subtest scores, on the off chance something was missed. It sounds like something, somewhere, is not quite right in this situation. Since that's what your intuition seems to be telling you, I would not give up just yet. Even more important than getting into the gifted school would be discovering an undetected learning issue. (I can't recall - is the WISC better for detecting LDs than the SB5?)
That said, I do have one kiddo who made huge developmental leaps in the K timeframe. He was tested by the school psych for his IEP (speech and OT issues), and on that testing his achievement scores significantly exceeded his supposed IQ scores. She had no answer for how that was possible. I suspect part of the answer lies in the test itself and part of the answer lies in the fact that it was a period of very rapid development for my very asynchronous ds.
p.s. I like the idea of waiting it out for a year or so, till you really need that test score to apply to the school, and testing again, perhaps with a different test.
