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Intelligence
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| Talented children are not perfect. Some of their problems include : Poor interpersonal skills Impatience or intolerance with people unable to keep up. Poor self-image especially in older children through fear that their skills may be rejected by peers as 'showing off'. Use of humor as a weapon to criticize or mock others. Inability to accept the opinion of others through arrogance or rigidity. Frustration with others Not feeling challenged enough. Feeling isolated - misunderstood or not taken seriously by others, especially adults. Feeling let down by situations that do not meet expectations of excellence. Frustration with self Disorganized attention to too many areas of interest. Over expenditure of energy. Inability to meet unrealistic goals. Talented children are just like other children: some are well behaved and others are not. Some may have characteristics which may be misinterpreted by adults, such as hyperactivity. Some talented children may not be recognized as such, due to social problems, such as stammering, or emotional problems, which may cause temporary withdrawal. A talented child may need extra help to overcome any difficulties. Children need success and recognition and can be very sensitive to criticism. For the same reason they may also be vulnerable if rejected by their peer group. This is particularly true of talented children. It is a harsh fact of life that ordinary children tend to be intolerant of other children whom they per-ceive as being odd or peculiar. An individual who is very unusual may be seen as freakish and alien. Exceptionally able children are likely to be different from others in a number of ways, if only because their values and interests are not those of an ordinary child. Evidence indicates that children who gain unusually high scores on intelligence tests are on the whole LESS, rather than more, likely than others to experience severe personal problems in childhood and adolescence. In practical terms, catering to their personal development might arguably justify a lower priority pending the availability of resources. The needs of the average gifted child however is quite different from the highly gifted. Prodigies (the very exceptionally intelligent group) who have well-developed social skills and are unusual only in being exceptionally able do not find that precocity on its own produces crushing difficulties for them. There are certain kinds of childhood difficulties that prodigies are particularly prone to, including problems arising from parental pressures, being different, consequences for attaining highly specialized abilities, and publicity.  THE HANDICAPPED A handicap is not a bar to being talented. That 'nature always seems to compensate for a disability or handicap' seems to hold. As parents, it is natural to make some compensation if a child has a disability or handicap. In many cases this is necessary for the safety and well-being of the child. These children may need more encouragement to boost their self-esteem. There are handicapped people who are extremely talented in areas not affected by their disability. These people work hard to overcome their disability and achieve great things. Think of the blind people who perform brilliantly at university or in their chosen career, for example. A contemporary examples include Stephen Hawking, a quadriplegic Cambridge professor and cosmologist and arguably the greatest theoretical physicist alive, and Stevie Wonder, an accomplished musician and composer. Alternatively, within the context of the handicapped there are those who win gold medals at the Handicapped Olympics. The ability and determination shown by these athletes place them in the ranks of the talented by any criteria. |
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