Toddler from U.S., becomes the youngest member of a High IQ society

A toddler from Crestwood, Kentucky, U.S. showed her extraordinary intelligence after joining Mensa International as their youngest member.

Two years old Isla McNabb earned a Guinness World Record after becoming the youngest Mensa member and getting a 99th percentile for the Stanford-Binet Intelligence Scales at her young age.

Mensa is the largest and oldest high-IQ society in the world and it is a non-profit organization open to people who score 98th percentile or higher on a standardized IQ test and is the biggest and oldest high IQ society in the world.

According to Isla's parents, Jason and Amanda McNabb, their daughter started to learn colors, numbers, and the alphabet at the age of one."At seven months of age she would pick out certain items from picture books when asked," said Isla's father, Jason McNabb.

On Isla's second birthday, she received an erasable writing tablet, wherein her father wrote the word "red" on the tablet, and Isla was surprisingly able to read the word. Jason then continued and write "blue," "yellow," "cat" and "dog," all of which Isla read aloud.

Jason and Amanda gave multicolored toy letters by objects around the house and to Isla. They were surprised after Isla categorized each word to every object, they found the letters C-H-A-I-R beside the couch and the word C-A-T beside their cat Booger.

Amanda seeks to have Isla tested. But doctors in Louisville declined to undergo an IQ test for Isla since she was too young for it. Luckily, Dr. Ed Amend in Lexington agreed.

"A psychologist that tested Isla specializes in gifted children," said Jason…"He states he doesn't usually test children as young as two but made an exception after hearing about her talents."

Isla scored in the top one percent of the population at the age of 2 and a half, and this qualifies her for a Mensa membership.

Isla's parents said that Isla's enrollment in Mensa will help them get tips from other parents of gifted children. "The biggest benefit to Mensa is the community," said Jason.

Currently, Isla is enrolled in preschool and she can excel and score above average in math and reading. (KBAPI)