Gifted Learner Support
Who are gifted learners?
Gifted learners are those children whose potential is clearly above average in any of the following aspects: creative, intellectual, social, and physical. They require services and activities that are not ordinarily offered by the school so as to fully develop their potential.
Giftedness is an intellectual ability significantly higher than average and those who give evidence of high achievement capability in such areas as intellectual, creative, artistic, or leadership capacity, or in specific academic field.
What are the early Signs of Gifted learners?
- Unusual alertness, even in infancy
- Rapid learner; puts thoughts together quickly
- Excellent memory
- Unusually large vocabulary and complex sentence structure for age
- Advanced comprehension of word nuances, metaphors, and abstract ideas
- Enjoys solving problems, especially with numbers and puzzles
- Often self-taught reading and writing skills as preschooler
- Deep, intense feelings and reactions
- Highly sensitive
- Thinking is abstract, complex, logical, and insightful
- Idealism and sense of justice at an early age
- Concern with social and political issues and injustices
- Longer attention span and intense concentration
- Preoccupied with own thoughts—daydreamer
- Learn basic skills quickly and with very little practice
- Asks probing questions
- A wide range of interests (or extreme focus in one area)
- Highly developed curiosity
- Interest in experimenting and doing things differently
- Puts idea or things together that are not typical
- Keen and/or unusual sense of humor
- Desire to organize people/things through games or complex schemas
- Vivid imaginations (and imaginary playmates when in preschool)
- An extreme need for constant mental stimulation
- An ability to learn and process complex information rapidly
- A need to explore subjects in surprising depth
- An insatiable curiosity as demonstrated by endless questions and inquiries
- Ability to comprehend material several grade levels above their age peers
- Surprising emotional depth and sensitivity at a young age
- Enthusiastic about unique interests and topics
- Quirky or mature sense of humor
- Creative problem solving and imaginative expression
- Absorbs information quickly with a few repetitions
- Self-aware, socially aware, and aware of global issues
- Long attention span
- High activity level
- Intense reactions to pain, noise, frustration
- Recognizing or smiling at caretakers at an early age
- Advanced progression through their developmental milestones
- Extraordinary memory
Gifted children may demonstrate some but not all of these traits; every child is different. To determine the extent of your child’s abilities, testing or a full assessment may provide some of the answers you are seeking.
How we can help
- Our members of School Psychology India undergo a systematic approach to help impart skills one step at a time and come up with individualized instruction to address the unique challenges and strengths of each child.
- If you suspect that your child takes more than normal time to learn things or needs extra training to do a certain task or seems to be a slow learner, feel free to book an appointment with us by filling this form or sending an email to care@specialchild.in with your queries and basic information of your child. We will get back to you with a reply mail with information on the first appointment/consultation.
- On first consultation which is free, one of our experts will discuss about your child and his/her requirements and will decide on whether an assessment is required or not.
- If assessment is required, the expert will discuss the payment and time involved and fix a schedule for the first assessment.
- On the first assessment, we do a comprehensive assessment of your child’s slow learning difficulty using various time-tested strategies and methods to confirm the presence of the difficulty and to determine its intensity.
- Based on our assessment and evaluation, a second consultation (free of cost) will be scheduled and the report of the assessment will be discussed with much emphasis on what needs to be done and the parents will be given options which include self-training, IEP support, online coaching, mentoring support and counselling.
- Based on the parents’ requirement, a coach or mentor is allotted to assist the child with the process.
- An IEP or Individualized Education Plan for the child will be designed by our special educators. The parent or teacher will be educated / trained on how to use the IEP effectively to train the child.
- At this juncture too, you can choose whether parents want to self-coach or opt for trainer-assisted coaching.
- Counselling is also an integral part of the process whereby our specialized child counselors offer the right support, guidance, and advice as and when required by the parent, teacher, or the child.
- All the components of the process including consultation, assessment, evaluation, IEP designing, coaching, training, mentoring, and counselling will take place through the online platform. We will guide you from the beginning to the end and ensure the child is adequately trained to attain his/her personal and academic goals.
If you see any sign and symptom of gifteness in your child, contact us right away.
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- Assessment is a gathering of relevant information about an individual’s areas of strengths and challenges to determine whether he or she may have a disability or a disorder or a unique ability.
- If you suspect your child is gifted, testing will allow you to understand their specific learning needs including strengths and weaknesses. By identifying giftedness early on, it’s more likely that your child’s giftedness will be developed into talents.
- Testing for giftedness in children can open doors by helping a child develop those gifts into talents. But timing is important. Testing can be inaccurate before the age of 6 and it is unlikely parents could do anything differently if their child indeed tested as gifted. Parents of all children, gifted or not, should provide the opportunity for young children to explore their interests and learn.
- Email us at care@specialeducator.in or call us at 00 91 97 86 89 00 08 to schedule your first consultation and thereupon an assessment to identify the areas in which your child needs improvement.
- An IEP will include a list of objectives, secondary objectives, plan to achieve those objectives, interventions, and techniques to reach the set objective and alternatives to support contingencies.
- An Individualized Education Plan is a planned schedule of instructions for a child to attain certain objectives in a fixed period.
- The assessment will provide us a list of areas where a child needs attention and an IEP will be designed to plan a strategy to improvise those areas under a certain period.
- Email us at care@specialeducator.in or call us at 00 91 97 86 89 00 08 to schedule your first consultation and thereupon an assessment to identify the areas in which your child needs improvement through a well drafted IEP.
- Children with giftedness require emotional support and optimal management strategies differ depending on the child’s age and circumstances.
- If you choose to self-coach them, our experts will be happy to extend mentoring services which include weekly once interaction about the child’s work based on the IEP.
- Our mentors will provide you the tips and techniques to get the work done with your child.
- They will guide you in times of need and will help you work with your child.
- In mentoring, the experts will not be dealing with the child on a day-to-day basis while there will be scheduled sessions with parents like 2 or 4 sessions in a month.
- Assessment report and an IEP is needed to avail Mentoring services.
- Email us at care@specialeducator.in or call us at 00 91 97 86 89 00 08 to schedule your first consultation and thereupon avail our mentoring services.
- Our experts will be able to coach your child online on a day-to-day basis for a fixed amount of time through Google Meet or any other video chat platform.
- Email us at care@specialeducator.in or call us at 00 91 97 86 89 00 08 to schedule your first consultation and thereupon avail our mentoring services.
- Parents need to be aware of the child’s potential as well as the areas where he/she needs that extra push. Moreover, parents need to understand what giftedness mean to child and his/her life. Knowing that is important for the parent while caring about his/her child’s academic life and career ahead.
- Counselling is a type of service that aims to provide the necessary knowledge, tools, guidance, and especially support to parents without bias or judgment.
- The child needs to be encouraged and his/her ego should be strengthened enough so that the child can understand and manage his/her difficulties.
- Email us at care@specialeducator.in or call us at 00 91 97 86 89 00 08 to schedule your first consultation and thereupon avail our mentoring services.
If you see any sign and symptom of giftedness in your child, contact us right away.