My IQ as a child is a funny story:
At age 2 years and 8 months, not too long after I was officially diagnosed on the autism spectrum, an IQ test showed my overall IQ to be in the mildly mentally 'deficient' range (don't know what the exact number is). I hadn't even say my first word when this was given. So this should be completely ignored.
Exactly 8 years later, when I was considered to be verbal and was given another IQ test, I scored 108 (bright normal) on that.
shyengineer wrote:
It seems that an IQ of about 125 is optimal in regards to real-life success.
Funny thing about that is on the most recent official IQ test given to me (when i was a sophomore in high school), my overall IQ was estimated to be 125.
To the OP, personally, I think giving an IQ test to a child that hasn't even started school is stupid (especially if that child is non-verbal at the time that assessment for that child's IQ is considered). So I wouldn't take your 5-year-old autistic daughter's IQ score seriously. I would wait at least several years and see if she improves any.