Gifted Evaluations
The National Association for Gifted Children (NAGC) lists characteristics that gifted individuals often share, including the following:
- Unusual alertness
- 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
- Often self-taught reading and writing skills as a preschooler
- Deep, intense feelings and reactions
- Thinking is abstract, complex, logical, and insightful
- Idealism and sense of justice at early age
- Longer attention span and intense concentration
- Asks probing questions
- Wide range of interests (or extreme focus in one area)
- Highly developed curiosity
- Interest in experimenting and doing things differently
- Vivid imagination
Testing provides an objective and systematic way for identifying gifted children by providing scores to describe a child’s performance in relation to others. In Florida, test scores are used as benchmark requirements for entrance into gifted programs.
Although it is sometimes easy to recognize the characteristics of a gifted child at a very young age, according to the NAGC, it is best to wait until your child is at least 6 years old for gifted testing.
Testing for giftedness at Monarch will include a comprehensive intellectual assessment. A test of academic achievement can be added if desired. Please call Monarch’s office in Rockledge if you are interested in having this testing completed with your child.
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