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My biggest area of expertise is in autistic and other developmentally disabled gifted kids (especially creatively gifted disabled kids). I can also answer questions about gifted/talented children in general. I can't answer questions about legal issues and such (eg fighting the education system), but I can answer questions about what it's like for the child and so on. I'm better at dealing with questions about school-aged children than preschoolers.

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2009-11-03 Is my 19 month old gifted?What do I do next?:

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

2009-10-31 What's my son's problem?:

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

2009-10-31 IQ test:

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

2009-10-27 Is my child gifted?:

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

2009-10-26 re testing with RIAS:

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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