{"id":4291,"date":"2021-05-31T11:36:05","date_gmt":"2021-05-31T08:36:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/invidyo.com\/blog?p=4291"},"modified":"2021-05-31T11:36:05","modified_gmt":"2021-05-31T08:36:05","slug":"how-do-i-know-if-my-child-is-gifted","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/invidyo.com\/blog\/en\/how-do-i-know-if-my-child-is-gifted","title":{"rendered":"How do I know if my child is gifted?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Most experts on the subject will tend to agree that some signs of your child being \u201cgifted\u201d include (courtesy of <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.greatschools.org\/gk\/articles\/gifted-and-talented-children\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">greatschools.org)<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">:\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Exhibiting unusual curiosity and asking questions<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Being good at solving problems<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Reasoning well and understanding and adapting ideas<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Having many interests<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Reading avidly<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Learning quickly and remembering what\u2019s learned<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Communicating well<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Enjoying intellectual challenges<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">All well and good, but for younger children (especially those who haven\u2019t learned to read yet), some of these signs may be difficult to pick up on.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">For younger children, some early signs of potential \u201cgiftedness\u201d, include, but are not limited to: &#8211;<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">They enjoy listening to a longer book, and often ask for it to be read again<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Your child may show an early interest in things like the alphabet<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">They may be able to remember complex events<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Your child might be able to organize and arrange objects easily<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">However, it is important to note that these are just general potential signs. They do not necessarily mean your child is \u201cgifted\u201d.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Your child may show some signs of being gifted that one expert would recognize, and another not. Your child may also have a very high IQ, but may have no actual \u201cspecial talents\u201d.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Most experts on the subject will tend to agree that some signs of your child being \u201cgifted\u201d include&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":4292,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[154],"tags":[],"table_tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/invidyo.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4291"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/invidyo.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/invidyo.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/invidyo.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/invidyo.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4291"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/invidyo.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4291\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4296,"href":"https:\/\/invidyo.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4291\/revisions\/4296"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/invidyo.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4292"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/invidyo.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4291"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/invidyo.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4291"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/invidyo.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4291"},{"taxonomy":"table_tags","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/invidyo.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/table_tags?post=4291"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}