![]() ![]() Reasoning: Outstanding ability to think things through and consider implications or alternatives rich, flexible, highly conscious, logical thought.Expressiveness: Extraordinary ability to communicate meaning or emotion through words, actions, symbols, or media.Sensitivity: Unusually aware of or responsive to experiences and feelings, both their own and/or those of other people.Memory and Processing: Tremendous "brain power" for dealing with large amounts of information and skills.Inquiry: Probing exploration, deep questions experiments with events, ideas, feeling, sounds, symbols, movements, etc.Imagination and creativity: Extraordinary capacity for ingenious, flexible use of ideas, processes, materials or anything else.Humor: Exceptionally keen sense of the comical, the bizarre, or the absurd.In general, compared to children of the same age, gender, temperament and cultural background, the gifted, school-age child will exhibit some of the following behaviours more frequently, more intensely and for a longer period of time: Templeton National Report on Acceleration, 2004.) (Source: Colangelo, N., Assouline, S.G., and Gross, M. In very young children, giftedness may be indicated by: The Journey: A Handbook for Parents of Children Who Are Gifted and Talented (Alberta Government) – Note Chapter 2: Signposts Along the Way Looking for Children who may be Gifted What to Expect When…You’re Raising a Gifted Child (OAGC - Ohio) - Note page 7 This is far from being an all-inclusive list, and not every bright child has all of these characteristics.Īdditional indicators of giftedness can be found below and also on the webpages of other organizations such as these: special ability in one or more areas, such as music, art, science, language, computers, or mathematics.long concentration spans in areas of interest.ability to see connections between ideas.superior judgment and reasoning ability.unusual insight and intellectual curiosity.It is difficult to generalize, but many bright children have some of the characteristics listed below: Signs of Giftedness How can a bright child be recognized?Įach child is different. ![]()
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