I have only had IQ testing done on one of my three kids. For DD8, IQ and achievement testing was truly beneficial. DD8 was diagnosed as HG, dyslexic and dysgraphic. The testing helped me provide advocacy for her. It helped the teacher understand that while DD seemed to be an average kid (except in math), she is anything but average. It encouraged her teacher to try new things and find out that there was a whole lot more going on in that little head. Now, DD is in a gifted center program with 504 accommodations. Without those tests, we probably would have kept her in a regular ed classroom and watched her frustration grow without understanding why. We did not test her for bragging rights -- we haven't told people in our circle her IQ. We tested to gain information and insight into our child.
Like many people on this forum, my kid's IQ is in the 99.9 percentile. Finding this out was a bit of a shock. I have appreciated this forum as a place where it is okay to talk about my kid as "gifted" and all of the baggage that comes with it.
