characteristics

1. • Quick Learners
• Superior Memory
• Above Average verbal
communication and vocabulary
• Creative production
• Ease in learning Braille
• Very Persistent
• Motivated to know more
Visually Impaired
• Early Development of speech
• Early reading ability
• Rapid grasps of Ideas
• High reasoning abilities
• Excellent performance in school
• Wide range of interest
• Great problem-solvers
• Self starters
Hearing Impaired
• Often shift from one incomplete
activity to another
• More active than other children
• Highly sensitive
• Impulsivity
• Restless
• Difficulty adhering to rules
ADHD
• High development of Compensatory
skills
• Impressive store of Knowledge
• Advanced academic skills
• Exceptional problem-solving skills
• Greater maturity level than peers
• Good sense of humor
• Perfectionists
Physically Disabled
• High abstract reasoning skills
• Good math reasoning
• Keen visual memory
• Advanced vocabulary
• Insightful
• Supersensitive
• Imaginative and Creative
• Perfectionist
Learning Disabled
• Pedantic, seamless speech
• Low tolerance for change
• Can do word play, but doesn’t
understand humor
• Stemming may be present
• Lack of insight and the ability to
take others’ perspectives
Asperger's/Autism