Yes, your son is gifted. By the way, walking at 13 months and not feeding himself at 19 months is actually in the normal range, not slow. There isn't really a specific approach for raising gifted kids
Firstly, your son is pretty clearly a gifted child. However, it's possible that he has some sort of learning problem in addition to giftedness, particularly since he had a rough birth. I'm not entirely
I'm pretty sure your daughter is in fact gifted. As for IQ testing, typically around 5-6 years old is when IQ retest reliability stabilizes, meaning that if you test them again a year or two later they
She sounds like she probably is gifted, but accompanied with some sort of developmental difference as well. To me, it sounds like she might be mildly autistic. Her language is significantly delayed (bilingual
If the same test is done twice in a short time period, there is a tendency for scores to increase based on learning. I'm not sure if two months falls within that window of time or not. However, the increase

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