Hi everyone
I have been lurking for awhile now and have really enjoyed the discussions and have learned so much. I'm finally joining in because I have a bunch of questions I hope you can help with and because I find that I want to chime in and respond to other people's posts - I've been nodding a lot to the computer!

Sorry this will end up being long, not sure there are short stories with our kids! My ds is 4.5 (in 2 weeks) and exceptionally verbal, always has been. He talked early although not super early, but had multiple word sentences really early and it was always grammatically correct, we were always blown away by that. His vocal grew by leaps and bounds. He read sight words at 3, I almost fell over at target, at valentines day, he points up and said ox, mommy, I looked up, we came in under the xo, xo sign for kisses, it was facing the other way for people going out, so coming in it did say ox. Then it was exit signs, we knew he was reading when he knew the restaurants exit signs and the exit signs on the highway were the same words. I read early so we thought it was cool but this last year has blown us away. Before 4 he was doing Clifford sight reading books, then books with more complicated words and then this explosion, I felt a bit of guilty because i didn't notice how desperate he was for information, and now just 8 months after first reading sentences on his own he is reading consistently somewhere between the 3rd and 6th grade level, but often higher than that. So I started obsessively reading hoagies and here, and we live in NYC so thinking about testing so we decided to find out what he was up to, not exactly prepared for the results, but also not sure we understand them.

The report gave him a 149 verbal iq, 127 performance iq, and 138 full scale iq, 150 general language composite

He hit ceilings on 6/10 if I am understanding hoagies right.

Verbal
Info 18
Vocabulary 19
Word reas 17

Performance
Block 14
Matrix 12
Picture 17

Processing (speed quotient 110)
Coding 11
Symbol search 13

Gen language
Recep voc 18
Picture naming 19
The tester talked to us after and said we need him get him OT because of the differential between his physical abilities and the rest, basically he was a snail and can't hold a pencil well enough to really do as well as she thought he could. We knew he was having trouble and attributed it to his perfectionist stuff - he can't make it look like the way he knows it should. So we have an appt with our pediatrician and are investigating OT, the thing that really sunk in is when she said he was just going to get more frustrated not only seeing other kids do it easily but also in terms of what he wants to do, like write down all the fabulous stories he tells.

She seemed to be suggesting that his scores would be much higher if he could hold the darn pencil - she really got him - said he started staring off into so space and wouldn't focus like he would on the verbal tests. Don't think it's visual though he seems to have great vision, can see in the dark! But really weak hand strength.

We knew he was bright, and as he sucked down more and more books and as I got into the ill program at the library just to find more and more space books, but this report threw us. And what is that 150, is that YS qualifying 150, or something else? Should we get him an achievement test when he is able or wait and see about the writing. And now we are all worried about where he will go to kindergarten and whether he will be super bored in his pre-k.

Sorry so long! Thanks for any help!

PS Also on the board, next to the my stuff column , there is a flashing letter, what does that mean!!!!