At her tender age, Isla McNabb is already displaying remarkable intelligence, surpassing her peers by spelling and pronouncing words with ease. Upon making this astonishing discovery, Isla's parents reached out to the Guinness World Records to officially acknowledge their daughter's exceptional gifts.
From The Guardian:
In a conversation published on Monday, Isla’s parents, Jason and Amanda McNabb, told the Guinness World Records website that they realized their daughter’s intelligence should be assessed after an aunt gave her an erasable writing tablet as a second birthday present..
Jason said he wrote the word “red” on the board, and Isla was able to read it back to him, even though she was about four or five years below the age when most children typically acquire that ability.
A shocked Jason McNabb then went on to write out the words “blue”, “yellow”, “cat” and “dog”. Isla confidently read out each of the words, her father said to Guinness, which is renowned for maintaining a database of more than 40,000 world records.
From there, Isla’s parents said they began noticing words spelled out around the house with multi-colored toy letters.
The letters C-H-A-I-R were left next to a chair. Letters spelling out S-O-F-A were arranged next to the couch. At one point, Isla’s parents found their household kitty Booger lying next to the letters C-A-T.
At that point, Amanda McNabb told Guinness she had seen enough. She suggested that Isla undergo IQ testing, and the McNabbs did just that.
“A psychologist [who] tested Isla specializes in gifted children … [and said] he doesn’t usually test children,” Jason McNabb reportedly said. “But [he] made an exception after hearing about her talents.”
Isla ultimately scored in the 99th percentile of intelligence for age on the Stanford-Binet IQ tests. She was 2½ years old.
