My son is just 12yrs old. He is an only child and we live in a rural area where there are no children of his own age. I try to involve him as much as I can in out of school activities eg. scouts, youth club etc etc and I have NEVER had a problem with him out of school socially.
At School he has , since about 8yrs old, found it difficult to get on with other children although he does desperately want friends.
When he started secondary school this got much worse.....he started to have social problems leading to behaviour problems. There was also a lot of bullying and provocation and he found it very hard not to react.
I took him to be tested on the Wechsler tests. He came up with an overall IQ of 116.
He was higher than average in cognitive ability, higher than average in verbal ability but superior in percptual reasoning and in particular did VERY well in the abstract reasoning test. His lowest score was in the ability to process information quickly.
I am now wondering if he could be classed as gifted and talented in the area of perceptual reasoning and if this may be causing a lot of his problems.
Can anyone give advice.
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Kazjam · 01/07/2009 09:44
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