Wow! I haven't needed to ask a question here in such a long time. My DD10 is finally in a great place and has been for over a year. However, it is time to ask about DD5.
DD5 is very different from DD10, but also very bright. We had her tested a year ago to see if she would also qualify for the wonderful exceptionally gifted program we found for DD10. Back then, she scored 139 on the WPPSI. You have to score 140 to apply to the program, so our psychologist recommended retesting this year. In the meantime, DD5 would have barely missed the cutoff for Kindergarten entrance this fall, so we shelled out the money for a private school so she could start early (public school in our state don't allow early entrance). We did this in case she does not get into DD10's program.
Bad news - her score this time was only 135. The psychologist now highly supsects a learning disability and wants to test her for them (and we agree). The psychologist's daughter is in the same great program as DD10, so she has first-hand knowledge of it. She insists that DD5 should be in that program. However, we can't even apply this year since her IQ score didn't make the cut.
My concern is: assuming we find out that she has an LD, won't it always affect her IQ score? It seems to me that she will never be able to get into the program that we all agree she needs. Is it true that LDs affect IQ scores? If so, is there a way to address this issue?
If we could afford to keep her in private school, we would be fine with keeping her where she is. However, we are barely making it through one year of that tuition, so we have to move her to public school next year. Based on the terrible experience we had with DD10, I dread next year. So I want to know if there is any hope of getting her into this great program.
Thanks in advance for your help!
