Amanda and Jason McNabb from Louisville in the USA suddenly found several play letters around the house, which were put together into words.
Next to the sofa were, among other things, the letters SOFA. Next to their cat were the letters CAT.
Eventually, they realized that it was their two-year-old daughter, Isla McNabb, who was behind the writing The Washington Post.
Watch video of two-year-old Isla McNabb reading at the top of the case.
Case IQ body
The parents decided to let the daughter take an IQ test after a conversation with the doctor, to see what the result was.
– I said: “Let’s see what happens and how smart the kid is”, says mom Amanda in an interview with CBS News.
IQ tests are not usually given to young children, but in May Isla completed the test at the age of two.
The result was better than the parents expected: Isla ended up among the top one percent of the population.
This led to a membership in Mensa – an interest group for people with high IQ. Now she is the youngest member of the organization, writes The Independent.
– LETTERS: Isla McNabb fell in love with letters and words early on. She is now a member of Mensa as a two-year-old. Photo: ENEX / CBS
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To become a member of Mensa, you must have an IQ of at least 130 with a standard deviation of 15, which places you among the two percent with the highest IQ, writes Mensa.
Still a child
Isla’s father, Jason, says he noticed something different in the early years of his daughter’s life. Just before Isla turned two in November, she had learned to say the sound of several letters on her own.
On her second birthday, she received a tablet as a birthday present, so that she and her father could continue to practice putting letters together into words.
She picked things up quickly, and it did not take long before she could read in books. Usually most children learn to read when they are around six or seven years old.
The two-year-old also began to count gradually and mastered simple mathematics.
Although Isla is a genius, she is also an ordinary child. She enjoys several children’s programs, putting together puzzles and playing outside.
– She can read well for her age, but we still work with potty training, so she is still a regular two-year-old, laughs dad Jason.
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