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Exceptional Children
- Some professionals assign a definition of exceptional children based on intelligence test scores: an exceptional or gifted child IQ naturally exceeds above 130. This would include, by definition, the top 2.5% of individuals. Others draw a definition based on achievement. A gifted child can be considered as one who is working on 2 or more grade levels above his or her age.
- An exceptional or advantaged child or children is a state in which the advanced cognitive abilities and heightened intensity combine to create inner experiences and awareness that are qualitatively different from the norm. This increases with higher intellectual capacity.
- Parents and teachers who deal with these advantaged or exceptional children can often be described in a single word: Exhausted. The gifted child can speak as an adult or act in certain ways that can easily live the adult dumfounded. Typical examples of exceptional or gifted children are kids who are able to play piano, solve puzzling mathematical equations or make discoveries that thrill the mind of the adult.
- Does this sound like a child you know? The seven year old who want to learn algebra, and are quite capable, but can't remember to bring home her spelling book? A six year-old who is capable of drawing the picture of the president but does not remember to use the restroom at the right time before waiting him/herself..
- Gifted children learn to speak and develop sophisticated language patterns well in advance of their age-mates. Their verbal and reading fluency and comprehension improve rapidly.
- Gifted children exhibit a high level of complexity and abstraction in their questions and responses, which reflects phenomenal perceptiveness and sensitivity to relationships and patterns of knowledge (Barbe & Renzulli, 1981; Roedell, Jackson, & Robinson, 1980).
- The research suggests that gifted children of all ages are typically attracted to more complex forms of programming, which offer room for intellectual growth, a challenge in terms of story line and plot development, and more interesting and sophisticated characterizations.
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