Hi, I'm wondering if there is any literature which provides a guide to how WPPSI scores(or others in the new generation of tests) may translate into the different levels of giftedness. I found a nice table on Hoagies but wasn't sure how widely those views are accepted.
The background is we had our DS 4.4 tested on the WPPSI recently. We decided to go with testing because of behavior issues - he was getting more aggressive and less and less like our little boy. His daycare which 6 months earlier had said he was such a lovely little boy were throwing up their hands saying they couldn't handle him - this had happened the year before as well. We suspected boredom, they thought maybe autism. With school a year away it was hard seeing him adapting and even harder seeing a school adapt to him. This spurred me to talked to our local gifted association who referred me to a wonderful tester.
DS started preschool a couple of months ago, as well as two different care programs and suddenly he's the apple of all his teachers and carers eyes again. Thriving on the diversity of experience.
Anyway his FSIQ, verbal and performance were all over the DYS cutoff on the WPPSI though PS was average for age. He hit ceilings on all his subtests with the exception of PS?
I'm amazed at his scores and would have been happy to leave it there (2 weeks ago I didn't even know there were levels of giftedness) but for the fact our State (we are not in the US) provides extra resources for those children assessed as EG and PG. But here's the killer - they use the old ratio IQ numbers to determine that so EG is 160 - 180, PG 180 and above. So I'm looking for anything that may assist in advocating for those extra resources for my DS and wondering if anyone else has had some resistance from schools that IQ scores just aren't as high as they once were.
Many thanks. I've learnt so much via your forums in the last couple of weeks.
Last edited by freya; 03/29/14 03:58 AM.
