The document discusses the social and emotional issues that gifted children may face. It defines giftedness and describes how gifted individuals differ neurologically, in their perceptions and behaviors. Gifted children often experience overexcitabilities that can lead to issues like underachievement. Their asynchronous development and differences from others can cause maladjustment. The document recommends screening gifted children for social and emotional needs and providing support groups, counseling, and advocacy to help them develop in healthy ways.

1. Social/Emotional Issues of Gifted Children

3. Definition of Gifted

4. Gifted Being born with a quality or trait valued by one’s society

5. Musical Ability

6. Athleticism

7. Physical Beauty

8. Intelligence

9. …Valued By One’s Society

10. Athleticism

11. Physical Beauty

12. Gifted vs. Gifted and Talented Francoys Gagne

13. Gifts      Talents 10,000 hour rule Daniel Levitin, Michael Howe, Malcolm Gladwell, and Many, many others

14. NYS Reflects Gifts      Talents Those pupils who show evidence of high performance capability and exceptional potential… [including] those pupils who require educational programs or services beyond those normally provided by the regular school program in order to realize their full potential.” (New York Education Law § 4452)

16. NY One of 7 States Least Supportive of Gifted Children

17. For Our Purposes Today, Gifted: Having an inborn cognitive ability more than two standard deviations above the mean (IQ of 130 or greater)

18. Giftedness is Abnormal Top 3% of population in any given area of ability

19. Identifying Gifted Individuals Theory and Assessment of Cognition

20. Cattel, Horn Carrol Woodcock

25. Nature of Gifted Individuals

28. Neurology  Perception

29. Perception  Behavior Overexcitabilities (Kazimierz Dabrowski,1902-1980)

32. Psychomotor OE “Capacity for being active and energetic" (Piechowski, 1991, p. 287)

35. Common Misdiagnosis ADHD

36. Sensual OE Heightened experience of sensual pleasure

37. Sensual OE Heightened experience of sensual pleasure or displeasure emanating from sight, smell, touch, taste, and hearing (Dabrowski & Piechowski, 1977; Piechowski, 1979, 1991)

40. Pleasure and Pain Are More Intense

41. Examples

42. Intellectual OE Marked need to seek understanding and truth, to gain knowledge, and to analyze and synthesize (Dabrowski & Piechowski, 1977; Piechowski, 1979, 1991)

44. Examples

45. Imaginational OE Rich association of images and impressions, frequent use of image and metaphor, facility for invention and fantasy, detailed visualization, and elaborate dreams (Dabrowski & Piechowski,1977; Piechowski, 1979, 1991)

47. Examples

48. Personal Experience

49. Emotional OE Intense emotions, intense empathy, and magnified affective expression (Piechowski, 1991).

51. Overexcitability represents a real difference in the fabric of life and quality of experience (Lind, 2001)

52. Examples

53. "One who manifests several forms of overexcitability, sees reality in a different, stronger and more multisided manner" (Dabrowski, 1972, p. 7)

55. Gifted Behavior is Abnormal

60. Experience of Gifted People is Not Normal Being Gifted Doesn’t Feel Like a Gift

62. Environment Are you gifted?

63. Beauty Backlash Don’t hate me Because I’m beautiful.

64. Boredom

65. How Much Time is Wasted? 140 IQ = 50% of their time 170 IQ = 99% of their time Hollingworth (1942), Renzulli, Silverman (1991)

67. Homework for Spelling Make a Word Search Puzzle Using All 25 Spelling words

68. Child’s Solution

69. Personality Type Myers Briggs

70. Percent Introversion

71. Percent Intuition

72. Percent Thinking

73. Percent Perceiving

74. Percent INTP

75. What Are the Implications?

77. Maladjustment (Social/Emotional Issues) Leta Hollingworth

79. Interaction Nature of Environment Nature of Gifted People

80. Interaction Enriching Home Flexible School Cognitive Peers Absent Parents Limited Resources Rigid School Small Population 1 st Grader with 148 IQ Emotional OE

82. Inliers Gifted children who suffer socially and emotionally and don’t enjoy developing to their potential

83. Myth Gifted Kids Are Lucky and Will Succeed Without Anything Extra From Us

84. Success of U.S. Advanced Placement Students (National Excellence: A case for developing America’s Talent) Compared with the top students of 13 other nations

85. Biology 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14

86. Chemistry 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14

87. Physics 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14

88. Algebra 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13

89. Calculus 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 (National Excellence: A case for developing America’s Talent)

90. Excuse “ We are egalitarian and we educate a higher percentage of our youth than other nations.”

91. Correction (Ross, 1993) United States Advanced Placement Students International Competitor’s Top Students

92. “ American students are at or near the back of the pack in international comparisons. If we don’t make radical changes, that is where we are going to stay” (America 2000,1991).

95. Gifted Children Don’t Just… “ make it on their own”

98. Dropout Rates (Michael, 2005) General Population Gifted Population 11% 25%

99. Depending on one’s definition of gifted, the New York State dropout rate among gifted children in who do not receive intervention services is as high as 25% (Michael, 2005)

101. Good News We can usually make things better for gifted individuals by improving their environment