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The Non-STEM Gifted Kid

The Non-STEM Gifted Kid

You’ve got an image already conjured up in your mind, a stereotype if we’re honest, of a gifted kid. She’s got glasses, probably, or maybe he’s even wearing a bowtie and suspenders. She’s at the chalkboard solving a math problem several yards long a la Good Will Hunting, or he’s smiling in a cloud of gasses…

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,…

Intellectual Overexcitabilities And Your Gifted Child

Intellectual Overexcitabilities And Your Gifted Child

This continues our overexcitabilities series for parents of gifted children. Today, we explore intellectual overexcitabilities and gifted children.        Intellectual Overexcitabilities: What Are They? When the average person thinks about a “gifted child” intellectual overexcitabilities are usually what comes to mind.  Intellectual overexcitabilities are characterized by intense and accelerated mental activity. This is not…

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