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<blockquote data-quote="seriously" data-source="post: 472029" data-attributes="member: 11920"><p><a href="http://www.wrightslaw.com" target="_blank">Wrightslaw Special Education Law and Advocacy</a></p><p></p><p>The holy grail of Special Education.</p><p></p><p>I must respectfully suggest that your son's behavior may in fact be perfectly normal - for a child who scores in the 99% as you say your son has done. Even a district gifted program is not going to be meeting his intellectual, emotional and social needs.</p><p></p><p>If you have not read widely about parenting a profoundly gifted child or about the special and often unique needs of such children I strongly suggest you do so before you jump to any conclusions about your child's behavior.</p><p></p><p>I would absolutely NOT put him into a sped classroom setting until you have carefully considered this question and had him evaluated by someone who has in depth experience with such children. I can guarantee that your school psychologist does NOT have this experience and that you may have to travel out of town to find such expertise, depending on where you live.</p><p></p><p>Should you need them, I have listed several links for you that are widely considered good resources for parents of highly, exceptionally and profoundly gifted students.</p><p></p><p>As the parent of 2 gifted students with Learning Disability (LD)'s and as the sister of 2 exceptionally and 1 profoundly gifted sibling I cannot speak too strongly about the need for you to take this aspect into account when thinking about his behavior on the "normal" spectrum of behavior.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="seriously, post: 472029, member: 11920"] [URL='http://www.wrightslaw.com']Wrightslaw Special Education Law and Advocacy[/URL] The holy grail of Special Education. I must respectfully suggest that your son's behavior may in fact be perfectly normal - for a child who scores in the 99% as you say your son has done. Even a district gifted program is not going to be meeting his intellectual, emotional and social needs. If you have not read widely about parenting a profoundly gifted child or about the special and often unique needs of such children I strongly suggest you do so before you jump to any conclusions about your child's behavior. I would absolutely NOT put him into a sped classroom setting until you have carefully considered this question and had him evaluated by someone who has in depth experience with such children. I can guarantee that your school psychologist does NOT have this experience and that you may have to travel out of town to find such expertise, depending on where you live. Should you need them, I have listed several links for you that are widely considered good resources for parents of highly, exceptionally and profoundly gifted students. As the parent of 2 gifted students with Learning Disability (LD)'s and as the sister of 2 exceptionally and 1 profoundly gifted sibling I cannot speak too strongly about the need for you to take this aspect into account when thinking about his behavior on the "normal" spectrum of behavior. [/QUOTE]
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