Category: More About Giftedness

Gifted children experience the world from a totally different perspective than do average children. Not only do these children and adolescents have advanced abilities but also, they have boundless creativity, feel greater depths in emotions, show greater degrees of empathy and compassion, and often prefer older children as playmates. Thus,

Could My Child Be Gifted? Gifted children can show advanced abilities and characteristics, many of which may be apparent from birth. These traits can point to giftedness even before the child is ready for school. Such characteristics as early alertness, early talking, early physical development, a large and advanced vocabulary