I am a little puzzled by some of what I have learned so far. I am reading about how the profound level of gifted often involves children who are learning academics at a rapid rate. For example a 6 year old learning algebra, or a 18 month old reading at a 3rd grade level.
I have not seen anything like this with my dd.
I would advise that you don't get too caught up in specific behaviors, because there are so many variables... just off the top of my head:
- level of giftedness
- level of interest
- level of exposure
- level of mentoring
You're concerned about the first one, but that's only a quarter of the picture.
So, is she actually exceptionally/highly/profoundly gifted? Maybe just moderately/highly gifted? I wouldn't have thought there would be much difference between them all, but from all I have read here today, it seems like it is pretty important to understand that there are significant differences.
Assuming your DD's test uses the 15-point standard deviation (you didn't name the test), the 159 result puts her just shy of 4 standard deviations above the mean. Mensa will accept a 132 IQ, which is just above 2 standard deviations.
What this means... the difference between your child and the dullest Mensan is the same as the difference between the dullest Mensan and the average person.
As someone else mentioned, the labels exceptionally/highly/profoundly aren't terribly meaningful, so just know that she's an outlier among outliers, and that's enough.
