Author: Shawna Wingert

Shawna Wingert is a special education teacher turned educational consultant, parent coach, and writer. She is also a homeschooling mom of two brilliant boys with differences and special needs. Shawna has written four books for parents – Everyday Autism, Special Education at Home, Parenting Chaos and her latest, Homeschooling Your Child With Special Needs. You can find Shawna online at DifferentByDesignLearning.com.
A Parent’s Guide To Emotional Overexcitabilities In Gifted Children

A Parent’s Guide To Emotional Overexcitabilities In Gifted Children

This continues our overexcitabilities series for parents of gifted children. Today, the focus is on gifted children and emotional excitabilities.       Emotional overexcitability is a term that comes from Kazimier Dabrowski’s Theory of Positive Disintegration. There are five overexcitabilities — or OEs —  each describing essentially a super sensitivity, a heightened characteristic, or intense…

Imaginational Overexcitabilities: A Parent’s Guide For Gifted Children

Imaginational Overexcitabilities: A Parent’s Guide For Gifted Children

This continues our overexcitabilities series for parents of gifted children. Today, we explore Imaginational Overexcitabilities and gifted children.        What Are Imaginational Overexcitabilities? Imaginational Overexcitabilities are far more than simply imaginative play. This difference in cognition expresses itself in an unusually heightened and intense imagination. It is so intense that for some gifted children,…

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