A few weeks ago the New York Times posted an article about the inaccuracy of preschool IQ tests, in particular in relation to competitive kindergarten admissions in New York. Recently they posted an article about a number of states (including Pennsylvania) that will soon offer testing allowing students to graduate from high school up to two years early.
Also in the news, the University of Iowa has received funding for it’s National Institute of Twice-Exceptionality (NITE). Another article can be found here. It looks to be a great resource once they get things up and running.
I also came across a website with a lot of information about speech and phonological processes. While they lump initial consonant deletion in with final consonant deletion and label it appropriate until about age 3 (which many sources disagree), there is still a lot of useful information on the site. I found the explanation of phonetic vs. phonemic problems very easy to understand.
