Meet Mensa's youngest US member who joined at age 2

Washington, May 3 (ANI): A 2-year-old girl is making headlines as the youngest US member of Mensa - the prestigious high- IQ institution in the US.

Emmelyn Roettger, from the Washington, DC, area became a member in March, a month before her third birthday, msnbc.com reported.

As a baby, Roettger's slow development led doctors to warn her parents that she might have "unspecified delays," but her mom's insistence that her daughter's vision be tested found the cause of her issues: poor eyesight.

"It turned out that she just needed glasses!" Fox News quoted mother Michelle Horne as saying.

"It was so obvious that any delays she had were vision-related. From there on out, she just took off," the mum added.

Roettger began recognizing letters at 15 months and was writing them before she turned two. Within months she could write her own name and count to 100 as well as in lots of two, five and 10.

In an effort to prove her daughter was not suffering delays as a doctor continued to insist, Horne tracked down intelligence tests and found the little girl was right at the top for her age, recording an IQ of 135.

Her remarkable abilities were relayed to Mensa, and the group quickly welcomed the girl into the fold.

"My husband thought it was a silly idea at first.

"I was looking for support, though, and I thought Mensa could be another resource for us," Horne added. (ANI)