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Good luck with all the testing deacongirl from another adoptive parent!! Thank goodness for good therapists!!!

Try to relax and be patient (harder than it sounds!). Even if your DD doesn't test at a gifted level, you will have a good sense of her abilities and any gaps... which will help with direction going forward!

So I think she must have done well with letter number sequencing because it seemed to go on for awhile and I'm pretty sure psych just said "oh my God" when she completed one.

So I really don't know. I would say it took about 2 1/2 hours. (not counting breaks). I mean, I would say for sure that her FSIQ is somewhere over 120 but even though I could overhear a lot of what was happening I don't have a feeling for what what I was hearing meant. Psych says that she has 3 reports to write before ours and so we prob. won't hear for a couple of weeks and gave zero indication of how it went. I couldn't help myself and sent an e-mail asking for some tidbit of info. After writing the check I really just want to know if we will get any useful, actionable info. I mean...I'm sure we will learn something useful. Now to wait. But I will no longer be bothering this forum asking if I should have her tested or not, so that is a positive!

We are all here to be bothered. Let us know how it turns out!

What she said ^^^^

We don't mind being bothered.

Deacongirl, we miss you when you are not here....use us as needed.

Thanks for the kind words. I am a little annoyed with psych because after previously responding quickly to e-mails she has not yet responded to my request for some indication of how the testing went. I think I may have under emphasized how difficult it has felt at times and that I have been asking this question for 5 years and just want to know, like, "yes, you were on the right track to bring her to me or no, you need to look to some other explanation than giftedness." I get that the results might be complex or there might be scatter or whatever but tell me something lady! Thanks for letting me vent here.

I know it is so hard to wait and wish that the psychologist had given you some hints... but I suspect it is typical that she wouldn't until she's had some time to look everything over and reflect on the results. She may be uncomfortable answering you until she's done so.