I think you must be right. We adopted a girl whose IQ was measured at 78 when she came into our home at age 6. She is now 17, a B student in High school, and is talking seriously about college for the first time. She is one year behind (repeated 7th grade) so she won't finish HS unitl she is 19.

She can go to TCU (where I work) tuition free ($30,000 per year) or if she can't get into TCU, they will pay for any school that will accepted her. I never figured out if her IQ actually changed or if they just got it wrong when she was six. She was emotionally "shut down" when she first became our foster child and was tested. We suspect sexual abuse. She said, "I don't know" so many times that I told her she wasn't allowed to say that anymore. She had to invent new ways to say it if she really didn't know like, "I don't have an answer for you" or I don't understand what you mean" but she wouldn't say "I don't know". We were not strick about it- we would just ask her to give us some kind of answer and usually she could. She is probably our biggest suprise of the 5 children we adopted. And let me tell you that intelligence "branding" is not a good thing for kids or parents. Sometimes when Brittany would do something dumb, my wife and I would say, "Well maybe she is doing the best she can". One time a school evaluation was sent home that was an oxymoron; saying "She is preforming at a level above her capacity" Huh? How is that possible?



"Imagination is more important than knowledge." - Albert Einstein