Thank you for all the advice.

Originally Posted by Grinity
The book says that no one expects your living breathing child to perfectly line up with the levels, but this gives you a ballpark idea that your child 'really is' Profoundly Gifted. I don't know if you have sightseeing ambitions or relatives to visit in the US, but coming over for an IQ test might be a good idea. In a very years, you may be able to have someone test her over the Internet - who knows? Some countries don't have a definition of 'gifted' but are much more accepting of 'high achievement' than the U.S. which always dresses up their Presidents as lumberjacks at least once while they run for office to prove that they are 'regular guys.' Plenty of working class people in the U.S. are actually gifted, but the myth here is that you can be either 'down to earth and in touch with what really matters' OR 'highly intelligent,' but not both. Very Sad all around.

Is it possible for your family to get out there and mingle? Sometimes religious groups get a pretty good cross section...


I don't think she is profoundly gifted maybe HG or even MG smile We are actually now living in US, DD was born here. We are planning to move back to Europe around the time she turns 4 so I think she will be still too young to be tested before that. Maybe we will make a trip back to US later if we have a need to test her, but at that point it might not a fair to compare her to native english speakers anymore.

She does seem quite a bit more advanced than the few kids we know but it might just be that we do not see what those kids can really do.