Her school acts like they're not exactly sure what to do with her, so the guidance would be nice. I think her needs are a little more extreme than what they're used to dealing with.
Thanks for any further advice-
Julie
GAI may well be in the qualifying range - so you might have enough already. I think you should submit what you have and let YSP guide you as to what else is needed. Often they don't reject kids, but instead ask for 'more testing.' Let them take the lead.
Even if your child don't make the cut off, at this time, DITD provides help to any educator that wants it through their cyber-educators guild
http://www.davidsongifted.org/edguild/Free and open to all teachers of highly gifted kids! They even have email lists, although I don't know how active the lists are.
I don't think it's correct to say 'oh, other kids have greater needs' - the point is that at the top of these tests the tests lose their ability to distinguish one child from another. You DD has been through so much - who knows what her potential is. If she had been getting her educational needs met all along who knows what she could 'appear' like at this time, right? Let the YSP make their own choices. It's not like getting rejected puts a black mark on her record (or yours.) Of course I wouldn't mention it to her until it's good news. The kids who almost make it into DYS are still very unusually gifted and very rare in most school, and have deeply unfilled needs in most school settings.
When my son was in 2nd grade he got his IQ testing under similar conditions. In 3th grade things went very well with a teacher who really got him. In 4th grade they provided in-class differentiation, and things were 'so much better than terrible.' Our first chance at a skip came in 5th and it was hard to know what to do, because things we so much 'less terrible' that they looked good. In retrospect I'm so glad we took the chance, because 5th-8th would have been so much worse by comparison without the skip.
Who knows?
Grinity
