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Squishys the psych said she would e-mail me links to some studies that she had found. I will post them when I get them. If you don't mind me asking did you son have high wm scores? DD had a split on wm with one subtest being average and then maxing out
the other. The evaluator said the EF stuff means their brain is very efficient so it allows you to maximize what you have, so to speak.

Interesting DD has the same split, here was an interesting video that talks about it, will post the others when I get them:).

http://developingchild.harvard.edu/...brief_series/inbrief_executive_function/

@psychland, thank you for starting this thread; It is a topic I was hoping to explore more deeply.

I did a quick websearch and found the website of the University of Oregon CBIRT School-Based Assessment of Executive Functions.

@squishys, yes I can see why psychland's school psychologist said that these areas were as important if not more important than IQ in terms of predicting success in school (and probably in life as well).

Seems to fit in here... this has been linked before, but the authors of the Dyslexic Advantage have a blog titled Eide Neurolearnng blog. It hasn't been kept up to date, but I found it a great place to skim a ton of research on neuroscience particularly relevant for gifted and 2e issues. http://eideneurolearningblog.blogspot.com/

Also, Psych said the test she used was the most comprehensive measure but the norms don't start until 8 (not sure how old other children are) but she would just use the 8 year old norms with qualitative caution (DD is 7):).

Squishys there are plenty more sb5 users here, just not in our city. Every Wisc using tester I've encountered has also done at least parts of the wiat in their testing. And usually the SA spelling test and some sort of Australian reading test.

Gifted Minds didn't do any achievement testing, but every other psych we've visited (and we've seen a few between multiple kids and different issues) have all done at least basic math, spelling and reading ages along with the IQ. The SA spelling test gets used in NSW too (by at least some people), it seems to be the popular...