From memory, about 90% of kids that are suspected to be gifted by their parents actually test to be gifted. So if you have suspicions, you are probably on the right track. You know her best of all.

I have a gifted 8 year old. He was a 9 month walker, speaking in sentence at 1, two part grammatically correct sentences by 2. He knew the alphabet by about 2.5, was reading/writing his name and a dozen or so words by 3. Decided when he turned 4 that he wanted to read so spent literally hours on Reading Eggs, so much that I was having to enforce breaks. He was obsessed with it for 6 weeks, then dumped it never to look at again - but was reading at a Year 2 level. He taught himself to write and I would find whole pages of letters in his room - it turned out it was all spelled phonetically with no spaces but if you sounded it out then it was whole notebooks full of writing. He learned his numerals after DH sat and played snap with playing cards for 20 minutes one day, and he used trips in the car as a preschooler to practice counting to 100 and basic addition and subtraction.
I just had his parent teacher interview today and he is 3.5-5 years ahead in reading, spelling and numeracy and at least a year ahead on everything else (except art and PE). Does that sound like a brag? It always does when you talk about how much a gifted kid is achieving.

No one wants to be *that* mum, but if you have a kid like that you need to be their advocate. You would do everything in your power to get what was needed to help a struggling kid. Gifties are the same - they have a special need and it is up to you to ensure that those needs are met. I think if DS hadn't gone to kindy when he turned three it would have been the death of me!! He was exhausting (sensory/behavioural issues too). Bored DS is not a happy or well behaved child. Even now his brain will not turn off. Tonight I had to ban him from talking when I was reading a book to my girls, because he questioned every.single.thing, complete with corrections, observations, theories and possible solutions. He was totally overthinking it - it was a book for preschoolers!

I am sure she would love the extra opportunities to learn and absorb knowledge that kindy provides. I am not sure about the public routes for getting an assessment done, but you can get a private assessment through an educational psychologist. I would suggest finding the gifted kids group for your state and finding out who they recommend.

I hope there is something to help in there. Good luck with it all.