Stitts’ daughters’ rapidly growing vocabulary is fairly characteristic for gifted children, Louis says. “I used to keep a list on the fridge of their words,” Stitt says. Stitt - the marketing director for Front Edge Publishing and owner of Morgan Street Media Services in Senoia, Georgia - says her girls learned words faster than any of their friends. Take, for example, Susan Stitt’s three gifted daughters. She says gifted children tend to pick up new things sooner than their peers. Quick learningĪccording to Louis, a telltale sign that a child is exceptionally bright for their age is how quickly they learn. Those differences can show up in a variety of ways - gifted kids are still just kids, after all, with unique personalities and interests - but there are a few traits and characteristics they tend to have in common. “But there should be marked differences in at least some of these qualities in comparison to others their age.” “To be gifted, a child does not need to absolutely excel in each of these areas,” Louis says. The term can also be applied to kids who have high performance in the areas of learning, motivation, leadership, creativity or adaptability. But a high IQ score isn’t the only way to tell a child is gifted. Technically, the primary definition of a gifted child is one whose intelligence puts them in the top 2% of the population, says Kahina Louis, a licensed psychologist and CEO of Strengths and Solutions, an organization that conducts gifted testing in Miramar, Florida. If you’ve ever suspected your child is gifted, you might also be wondering how that term is defined.
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