Our younger dd, six years old, has been evaluated by a neuropsychologist and now a neurologist. Both did extensive testing, but she has not had a MRI or EEG.

Her symptoms -- clumsiness and SPD, mostly vestibular. She grew almost five inches in the past 12 months, and she is overweight. The pedi said that she is putting on weight because she is going through a big growth spurt. We just started working with a nutritionist. Her nutritionist also said this sort of weight gain pattern may be a sign of celiac. She gets OT for her SPD three times a week and was recently released from speech because she met her goals.

Her IQ -- 160 WJ-III cog for fluid reasoning, and 147 GAI for WISC (but the tester did not do extended scoring and won't give me the raw scores though she met the criteria for extended scoring under the testing guidelines)

Both the neurologist and the neuropsychologist said that our daugther is *not* on the spectrum, and that she has none of the core features of pervasive developmental delay. They said she needs to lose some weight and get past this growth spurt and her vestibular issues will improve, and that she feels offbalance because she is growing so fast.

The neurologist and neuropsych both said that our daughter's issues are caused by asynchronous development common in gifted children.

But she just started public school last week (at her inistence -- we even offered her cash or toys not to try school but she was determined and very insistent) Her new teacher, after one week of school, says that our daughter's behavior is similar to children she has worked with that had asperger's or autism.

The other thing that concerns me is that the nurse practitioner who worked with the neurologist said she thought our dd should have a MRI or EEG, but the neurologist came in after he read our daughter's IQ scores and said it would not be necessary because he felt there were other explanations for her symptoms.

Is it possible that because she is a girl with high scores they are missing the signs of autism or PDD? It seems that girls with asperger's are rare, and girls with scores like our daughter's scores are also rare. They may not see it very often, and therefore think that her IQ scores are the underlying explanation. I want to relax and feel reassured and yet, the teacher's words are making me worried.

Thank you for your help.