Hi there,

I am new here and sought this out after I received frustrating news from my district.

My DD has been extremely verbally precocious child since she was tiny -- talking at nine months, reading at 4, writing stories at 5.

She became extremely sad and frustrated in Kindergarten (a long story with many familiar trends), so I had her tested and applied to a gifted school. She was admitted to the gifted academy, but we couldn't afford it. I met with the principal of our public and they agreed that she needed some differentiated curriculum. Fine.

Well, now she's a pretty happy first grader. I don't think that she's particularly challenged, but she is happy. An example -- she gets pretested on Mondays for spelling. She gets them all right, so teacher sends home list 'B' for her. I quiz her on them Monday night and she already knows those words. She is pulled out for reading with a gifted teacher, who informed me that she scored the highest in her grade on the reading subtest they use. (I don't know what the measure is.)

So, here's the frustrating part -- they recently told me that she doesn't test into their gifted program because of her performance on the OLSAT. I don't know anything about that test. And, they have yet to give me her actual test scores on it. But her scores on the WPSSIII are below. She took that when she was 5.9? Anyone have any advice or information that would help me?

WECHSLER PRE-PRIMARY AND PRIMARY SCALE OF INTELLIGENCE �III
Note: Mean = 100; Average Range 90-110
Scaled Score Mean = 10; Standard Deviation = 3 points; Average Range 8-12


Full Scale 141 > 99

SubScale
Verbal 143 >99
Performance 131 98
Processing Speed 125 95

Verbal Subtests
Information 16 98
Vocabulary 19 >99
Similarities 16 98

Performance Subtests
Block Design 14 91
Picture Concepts 14 91
Matrix Reasoning 17 99

Processing Speed Subtests
Symbol Search 14 91
Coding 15 95


WECHSLER INDIVIDUAL ACHIEVEMENT TEST � II (WIAT � II)
Note: Mean = 100; Standard Deviation = 15 points; Average Range 90-110

Subtests
Math Reasoning 108 70 K.9
Word Reasoning 140 >99 2.6