This turned up on AOL and is related, because many Aspergers children turn into the Bobby Fischers, the Stephen Spielbergs, the Bill Gates of Society. Glad they mentioned many gifted children have "LEARNING DISABILITIES" in the article.
How to Tell if Your Child Is Gifted
by Brett Singer/Apr 28th 2010 10:00AM
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Note that they do not limit the "gifted" label to kids who are great at math (although a 5-year-old who does long division in her head is probably pretty darn smart). A child could be gifted in other areas, such as music or drawing. Perhaps she "incorporates large number of elements into artwork" or "sets high standards in the artistic area," gifted characteristics the Prufrock site identifies.
Carolyn Kottmeyer, founder of Hoagies' Gifted Education Page, says identifying a gifted child can be challenging.
"There are many lists of characteristics of gifted children, but not every gifted child displays every characteristic," she tells ParentDish. "The simplest description is that the gifted child learns faster and deeper than other children of the same age, and feels more acutely than his or her same-age peers. Some gifted children do puzzles years earlier than their peers, others read early, often by teaching themselves."
"Many, but not all, walk and talk and accomplish physical milestones early," she says, adding, "And some children are both gifted and learning disabled, exhibiting characteristics of both, a combination that makes their gifted identification and childhood learning much more challenging than either their gifted or average peers."
http://www.parentdish.com/2010/04/28/ho ... is-gifted/
Two of my 3 kids were sniffed out for "Academically and Intellectually Gifted," in the area of math... the two which received, specifically the Aspergers diagnosis. The other child has had other difficulties and was diagnosed "PDD/NOS with Aspergers like behaviors," though at the recent I.E.P. (Individual Education Plan) noted she possesses some strengths, and scored exceptionally high in other areas, but was not math related.
03 May 2010, 7:56 am
