He is eight/2nd grader. He is bright, though not as bright as many of your DC. I have read so many children have IQ test on this board. I just can not decide to have DS doing the test or not. I mean how IQ test can help me and my son.
DS showed gifted signs at 2. I didn't think he was gifted at that time though. I just thought he was a highly maintenance kid. I also wondered he had ADHD or Aspergers. He did have some behavioral problems at home and school but they were not significant enough for us to take him to evaluation. As the time went by, DS showed less and less behavioral problems so I am not worry about ADHD/Aspergers now. I think the quirkiness is contributed by OE.
The IQ test idea came to me because I do want to know his ability more. On Feb. he took SCAT test and got 93% Verb, 99% Quant. He is also IDed as gifted (98% or up) by school district but they didn't give me detail information. DS told me he felt happy at school with friends but he also admitted he was daydreaming a lot in the class. School district is facing budget cut impact. Our school barely provides any gifted service to gifted students. I have to search other resource to challenge him. But I still got lots of questions. Is it necessary to have an individual IQ test. I know he is gifted, I know he is not a PG. What can the IQ test tell me more?
There is another issue to cause me thinking about an IQ test. DS sometimes has hard time to sort out his thought. He has some writing problems which I had posted in another thread before. His output seems a lot weaker than his input. It is like he consumed a lot of information and processed but hard to express them into words. Dose an IQ test provide me more information about his weakness? What is the reason you took your kids to have an IQ test?
