Outside testing for gifted designation
psreddy wrote an interesting post today on
Here’s a quick excerpt
We finally decided the only thing left to do and not loose another year was to have him tested privately for gifted designation. It was very expensive, over $1200. We reluctantly asked my parents for the funds to have him tested, since this could of turned out to be spending good money and a lot of it and not have him qualify for gifted. After all that we had been through and all the dollars we had already spent on the paths with selective mutism, it was a risk we needed to take.
I learned there are three areas that a child can be tested designated gifted and each one qualifies for different services. The first is verbal. ( Reading ) Second is quantitative, (math), the third is non verbal, (spacial). The leap for our state was an 97% or higher to qualify in on any of three areas. Under 97% you do not […]
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