Comments on: What is Giftedness?

By: Cynthia Trejo

Cynthia Trejo — Mon, 17 Feb 2025 03:23:44 +0000

This article helped me understand how to help GT students. I also now understand that based on special needs or twice-exceptionality, GT students can show high achievement in certain areas and also perform below achievement.

By: Nothing

Nothing — Thu, 10 Oct 2024 07:31:22 +0000

In reply to Maria S. Moreno-Rosales. I am 7 and have 136 iq

By: Liliana A

Liliana A — Sun, 08 Sep 2024 21:42:15 +0000

This article gives a great amount of important information about GT how to help, support and guide GT students.

By: Jermaine Wilson

Jermaine Wilson — Mon, 08 Jan 2024 14:54:32 +0000

It is important to identify the area of giftedness. It’s also important to fully understand the individual student when it comes to them underachieving so we can find ways to address them individually.

By: Stephanie Givens

Stephanie Givens — Tue, 19 Dec 2023 01:48:11 +0000

I agree that gifted children may sometimes experience anxiety which impedes on their classroom performance. Unfortunately, the families of these children are not aware as to why or feel that the student should perform the same as everyone else.

By: Heather McNeil

Heather McNeil — Mon, 11 Dec 2023 22:21:31 +0000

I agree that to truly identify a gifted student requires a lot of work and observations. Many of them are masking or hiding their ability. Also, if the school does not identify them and have the proper testing done, they will be overlooked and that would be sad.

By: Michael Miller

Michael Miller — Mon, 10 Jul 2023 11:55:12 +0000

Giftedness is a trait that is little-studied, about which little is known, and which is widely misunderstood, even by psychologists and psychiatrists, [who should know better.] Even less understood yet are the quasi-related traits that sometimes accompany extreme cases.

Giftedness may not be “considered a disability”, but that’s an ignorant judgement made by people who have not had to live with the condition. Ask someone who is lonely, isolated, socially ostracized, who has difficulty finding anyone to talk to, and who finds it hard to hold a job if they don’t have a disability – sure they do. The fact that it’s a socially created issue rather than one due to a physical limitation, doesn’t make it any less real.

I was diagnosed at about 5 years old with being profoundly gifted (although the precise term, “gifted”, wasn’t in use yet.) I’ve lived my life since, having to be sneered at, criticized, overlooked and undervalued for merely being different. It’s varied from being an annoying nuisance to being crushingly oppressive. A great many people in our society dislike and resent anyone who seems notably more intelligent. (e.g., See “Tall Poppy Syndrome”) Which could explain why we persistantly elect politicians who are so distinctly average.

So please don’t be so fast to dismiss the idea that an intellectual difference could possibly be a disability, just because YOU haven’t experienced it.

By: Steve Allen

Steve Allen — Sun, 19 Mar 2023 19:36:00 +0000

How do i cite this article?

By: sharon tennison

sharon tennison — Sun, 20 Nov 2022 05:27:27 +0000

I am gifted in ability to create solutions, make estimates and create social programs, yet I have inability to deal with numbers. I scramble them, can’t remember them, always need a CPA and numbers person to relieve me of this responsibility. Google me to see my work and my book, The Power of Impossible Ideas.

By: Raquel Alvarado

Raquel Alvarado — Mon, 21 Mar 2022 15:54:58 +0000

There is an abundant amount of information regarding Giftedness. This topic is very intriguing to me. I am eager to learn as much about it as possible.

By: Nick

Nick — Sun, 02 Jan 2022 11:57:02 +0000

As a gifted student with an “iq” rated at 129, I’d would not at all recommend gifted programs unless you truly have a 145+. Most children aren’t equipped to deal with these kinds of things at a young age mentally (especially pull out classes those are awful) and develop anxiety and other mental illness. I’ve seen it all happen in my school and others. I was one of the lucky ones to come out normal because we were literally separated from society until highschool. Take this with a grain of salt, but I’m only trying to help.

By: Maria S. Moreno-Rosales

Maria S. Moreno-Rosales — Tue, 09 Nov 2021 19:43:41 +0000

I’ve read the information on defining Gifted. There are certainly many definitions of giftedness. I feel we need to be well informed to truly identify a student. They might be gifted and yet we do not notice it in the classroom or we can also identify easily the children that are because they stand out from the other children.