hi tammy
sorry about not explaining what i meant about the profile being a frustrating one. This is the crux of it- overall my son has a FSIQ very similar to yours, but his VCI and PCI are very high (with a very high GAI) and his working memory and processsing speed are average to low average. So he's gifted.. but he's not! he doesn't make the gifted cutoffs anywhere and the school seems to be in the dark about GAI.. but he is intensely interested in a lot of subjects.. but overall his performance can really fall short. For example, he is great with math concepts, but does very poorly on anything timed and therefore math tests at school (which are heavily about math facts) can be very frustrating to him. So its just a hard profile for educators to really understand. Also his attention isn't great so there is talk of ADD.. but not officially yet. After reading the Eide's book "The mislabeled child" i feel my son has a lot of pieces of gifted and some pieces of other issues/disorders. So right now i feel he is "twice-exceptional" but not sure exactly what the learnign disability piece is. You might feel all this less because all your DS's scores fall in average range, albeit a big spread. I've seen this "profile" talked about on this forum quite a bit and it does seem like its pretty common and frustrating to a lot of us. Hope this helps.
irene
