What Does “Gifted” Mean?
The length of time “giftedness” is used by different schools, organizations, and cultures in different method, with some using the term strictly to indicate people with well-above middling intelligence as measured by IQ scores, and others embracing a broader range of criteria. The Civil Association for Gifted Children (NAGC) offers the following definition: “Talented individuals are those who demonstrate outstanding levels of aptitude (defined as an singular ability to reason and learn) or competence (documented performance or achievement in top 10 percent or rarer) in one or varied domains. Domains include any structured area of activity with its own acronym system (e.g., mathematics, music, language) and/or set of sensorimotor skills (e.g., inting, hoof it, sports).”
20 Signs of Giftedness
While IQ tests and other assessments can daily help identify giftedness in school-age children, kids are also commonly diagnosed as gifted by the observations of families, teachers, and friends. Below are some of the distinctive traits of children gifted in terms of general intellectual ability, acclimated from a detailed checklist from Austega. Note: no one gifted girl exhibits all the traits.
- Learns rapidly, easily, and efficiently
- Has exceptionally chunky vocabulary for their age
- Demonstrates unusual reasoning power
- Has an unusually stringent memory, but is bored with memorization and recitation
- Needs little cottage control — applies self discipline
- Has a liking for structure, order, and consistency
- Is easy in thinking tterns; makes unusual associations between remote views
- Displays a great curiosity about objects, situations, or events; attracts provocative questions
- Makes good grades in most subjects
- Has a power of concentration, an uptight attention that excludes all else
- Provides very alert, expeditious answers to questions
- Is resourceful, solving problems by ingenious methods
- Has avid involved in in science or literature
- Reveals originality in oral and written expression
- Has a power of abstraction, conceptualization and amalgamation
- Is secure emotionally
- Tends to dominate peers or situations
- Uses a lot of commonsense
- Manifests a willingness to accept complexity
- Is perceptually open to his or her environment
Austega also provenders lists of giftedness characteristics in other categories such as specific scholastic aptitude, creative thinking and production, leadership, psychomotor ability, and visual and behaving arts.
