Category Archives: Characteristics of Gifted Children
El Desarrollo en el Niño Superdotado
March 13, 2012
El Desarrollo en el Niño Superdotado (Asynchronous Development in the Gifted Child) By Joy Navan Un hijo cambia día a día. El niño sobredotado, parece cambiar continuamente, de momento a momento. Sus padres a menudo se preguntan, “¿Por qué nuestro hijo, con seis años cumplidos, se comporta de una manera tan infantil?” O acaso, “¿Cómo [...]
Read More »
GT Kids and Behavior: Seven Strategies to Help Kids (and Parents) Cope
December 29, 2011
GT Kids and Behavior: Seven Strategies to Help Kids (and Parents) Cope Author: Christine Fonseca Citation: Online since October 2011 Gifted kids are a unique and challenging group – for teachers and for parents. They view the world through an entirely unique lens, one that is best summed up in one word. Intense. This intensity [...]
Read More »
Under the Spell of Words
Under the Spell of Words Author: Angela Arenivar, M.A. Citation: First published in the SENGVine, November 2011 Instead of mounting Backstreet Boys posters on my bedroom wall when I was a teenager, I opted to cover my wall with columns of words like “borborygmus” and “catarrhal” and “otorhinolaryngology.” More than anything at the age of thirteen, [...]
Read More »
Finding the Glory – On and Off the Playing Field
September 14, 2011
On the school athletic field, it seems that everyone expects and reveres top-level performance. A common expectation is that schools will offer special programs and opportunities to help athletes develop and hone their abilities in competition. Equally common is allocating money in the education budget to athletic programs, facilities, and equipment. “The athletically gifted, in [...]
Read More »
An Interview with Roland S. Persson: The Talent of Being Inconvenient
SENG’s Editor in Chief Dr. Michael F. Shaughnessy interviews Roland S. Persson, Ph.D. Dr. Persson is a Professor of Educational Psychology, editorial board member of Education Today (UK) and Gifted and Talented International(US), a psychometric consultant to The Swedish Foundation for Applied Psychology (STP), Editor in Chief of High Ability Studies (ECHA/Routledge) 1998 – 2002, and contributor to many of [...]
Read More »
Gifted Kids at Risk: Who’s Listening?
Gifted Kids at Risk: Who’s Listening? By Patricia A. Schuler Driving home from last week’s Hollingworth Conference on the Highly Gifted, I heard a radio interview with Thomas Moore, author of Care of the Soul. He spoke of the loss of empathy in our lives. His words echoed those spoken only hours earlier by Dr. Thom [...]
Read More »
The emotional needs of the gifted child
The emotions are the heart and soul of giftedness. The heart and soul of the human being is my passion. I have been preoccupied with it throughout my life. When we look into the eyes of children and adults we see their souls. We receive their message with our own souls. It is my belief [...]
Read More »
Social and emotional issues faced by gifted girls in elementary and secondary school
Social and Emotional Issues Faced by Gifted Girls in Elementary and Secondary School Author: Sally Reis Citation: From The SENG Newsletter. 2002 2(3) 1-5. Research with talented girls and women has revealed a number of personality factors, personal priorities, and social emotional issues that have consistently emerged as contributing reasons that many either cannot or do [...]
Read More »
Exploring social and emotional aspects of giftedness in children
Parents of gifted children have few guidelines about how to deal with issues resulting from their children's giftedness. Not only intellectual, but also, social and emotional issues provide challenges for parents. Five social/emotional traits of giftedness (divergent thinking ability, excitability, sensitivity, perceptiveness and entelechy) are described, and the specific issues that parents must face to enable their children to reach their full potential are explored.
Read More »
What Should I Do If My Child Isn’t Sufficiently Challenged at School?
This question, extracted directly from the SENG service bulletin (an informational brochure published jointly with NAGC) is one that many parents ask—and rightly so. The answers provided in the brochure make good sense because they are doable. They include forging strong parent-teacher liaisons (such as consultations, and shared observations of strengths and interests), tapping into available [...]
Read More »
