Is there any benefit in testing a child to be gifted at a young age?
IMHO, there's no benefit to testing (in general, not just IQ) unless the results of that test would change something.
I agree with this. Unless you need the info now for some particular reason, I wouldn't do it yet. It's extremely difficult to get accurate results in young kids. I have a 9 year old and a daughter that just turned 6. We've never done full scale testing on either. The only advantage to us would being about to possibly apply to DYS. And the cost doesn't outweigh the advantages at this point since we're a homeschooling family that has a good GT community already. Now my 9 year old is at an age where achievement scores are speaking volumes.
Edited to add - both my kids were potty trained relatively late. It just wasn't on any of our radars! Unless you NEED her potty trained for some particular reason, I would give it a break for 3-6 months. My kids could give a dissertation on why they wouldn't potty train before they ever were.
