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Gifted children usually can work quicker, deeper, and broader
then there peers and operate as levels of normal kids much older
than them. There are gifted youth programs to help cater to these
kids but due to budget restrictions are often cut back due to
the target audience being only a small portion of the population.
Other options include home schooling, grade acceleration, or early
college. Grade acceleration is not a good solution normally as
the child grasps the concepts quickly and tends to become bored.
These children are characterized as having high reasoning ability,
creativity, curiosity, a large vocabulary and an excellent memory.
They are also physically and emotionally sensitive, perfectionist
and question authority. They often perceive teachers as their
peers, or subordinates. They tend to prefer to company of adults
as they have trouble relating to peers their own age due to their
vocabulary size, personality and interests. Gifted boys many times
have Asperger's Syndrome, a form of autism with good language
skills which may form into High Functioning Autism later in life.
Introversion is common in gifted children. Gifted girls are likely
to conform and hide their abilities. Giftedness is frequently
not evenly distributed throughout all intellectual spheres: A
child may excel in solving logic problems yet be a poor speller;
Another may have excellent reading and writing skills but have
trouble with math. This is due to uneven skills rather than lack
of effort.
Gifted children may often be picked on at school due to their
social inadequacies. There is a high correlation between giftedness
and social anxiety, although the casualty is unclear. Many turn
out to be computer engineers, mathematicians, musicians or whatever
they are interested in.
Gifted children with heightened sensory may be overly sensitive
to sight, sound, smell and touch- they may get aggravated over
a wrinkle in their sock, or enable to concentrate because of a
click ticking on their other side of the room. Gifted children
are often aggravated by the seams in socks and tags on clothes,
part of the heightened sensory awareness. This hypersensitivity
to external stimuli can be a proneness to sensory overload which
can cause children to avoid chaotic and crowded environments.
Others, however seek out and thrive being in the midst of lots
of activity and stimulation. Activities awareness can fluctuate
between conditions of hyper stimulation & conditions of withdrawal.
Some find these conditions similar to symptoms of hyperactivity,
bipolar disorder, conditions in Autistic Spectrum, etc.
Gifted children often perceive "average" tasks as mundane
and causes them to be very unmotivated with the task at hand.
It is harder to get gifted children to complete easy work than
harder work. Gifted children are smart enough to tell when they
are given more work than their peers, and some resist into doing
more work. In doing such they are labeled as lazy, procrastinators,
and sometimes even unintelligent in the eyes of teachers. The
exact opposite is true when a teacher is able to unlock the children's
talent through a unrelated medium. By helping the student believe
in themselves, instead of labeling them as a nuisance can help
them gain the confidence they need to apply their talents to areas
other than their core interests.
Many perceive giftedness as a quantitative difference, as measured
by IQ tests, but a number of people describe it as an entirely
different way of perceiving the world- Giftedness is not something
you can turn on when needed, it is there 24/7.,"
The differences do not disappear into adulthood. Gifted adults
are seldom recognized as special population yet they still have
unique psychological, social & emotional issues related to
their high intelligence.
The most distinguished feature in a gifted child is if they want
to do something, they do so in extremes. This explains the perfectionism,
the performance, the focus, the level of achievement when they
apply themselves, and even the complete and perpetual perception
of what they perceive to be mundane.
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