[luckystarmom]

My daughter has a 90 IQ due to a brain injury. The injury affected her speech and language part of her brain.

However, the math side of her brain is okay, and she scores in the top 10% (or higher) on all math tests she takes.

She is a great example of what education can do. We pulled her out of public and put her in private school with a reading program. She’s been in speech therapy since she was 2. Her speech is still delayed, but now she is reading above grade level.

It’s strange to see kids with higher IQs and who don’t have a brain injury doing poorly in school, and my daughter with a brain injury is on the honor roll of a top private school. My daughter knows how to work and how to study.

[Constitutions Grandchild]

You are a lucky star mom with a lucky star daughter. When I was 7 my parents got the news that I wasn't going to make it. I did. After I was well enough to leave my wheelchair, they made sure I was out there competing with everyone else. Due to my illness, I was probably the least coordinated person you can imagine, though I was the last person chosen to be on any team and I took more softballs in the mouth, tripped over more bats and had major difficulty concentrating, my parents made sure I got out there and tried. I was in and out of hospitals through college and my early thirties. Hell, I was tired from just trying to do what others took for granted, but I can tell you that you are an exceptional parent and you have a very exceptional child. Think of what she could’ve done if she hadn't had every roadblock imaginable thrown up in her path. She IS a superstar.

[Niuhuru]

“It’s strange to see kids with higher IQs and who don’t have a brain injury doing poorly in school,”

I remember a FReeper once asking why a major genius still lived with his mother. One other responded that the brains of geniuses are literally wired differently, to an extreme, as compared to a normal brain.

Needless to say, people with high I.Q.’s, literally live on another world, much like autistic people I would think.

[Niuhuru]

“. We pulled her out of public and put her in private school with a reading program. She’s been in speech therapy since she was 2. Her speech is still delayed, but now she is reading above grade level.”

Bless you for doing that. My parents would have thrown me into a Special Ed program and then relegated me to a group home.

Which is what they did to me in high school and then shoved me into a group home after I went into a meltdown.