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What challenges might gifted students face?
9 Challenges Facing Gifted Children (and How You Can Help!)
- Self-Esteem Issues.
- Guilt.
- Perfectionism.
- Control Issues.
- Unrealistic Expectations.
- Impatience.
- Friendship Issues.
- Attention and Organization Issues.
What are the challenges associated with the extremes of intelligence?
Individuals with intellectual disabilities may experience difficulty learning social rules, deficits in memory, difficulty with problem solving, and delays in adaptive behaviors (such as self-help or self-care skills). They may also lack social inhibitors.
What are the factors affecting intellectually gifted individual?
This disparity can result from various factors, such as loss of interest in classes that are too easy or negative social consequences of being perceived as smart. Underachievement can also result from emotional or psychological factors, including depression, anxiety, perfectionism, low self esteem, or self-sabotage.
What are the extremes in intelligence?
The extremes of intelligence are intellectual disability and giftedness. There are specific characteristics of intellectual disability and giftedness. Intelligence is defined as “the ability to solve problems and to adapt and learn from experiences.”(Santrock, 2014, p.
What does it mean if my child is intellectually gifted?
By definition, people who are gifted have above-average intelligence and/or superior talent for something, such as music, art, or math. Most public-school programs for the gifted select children who have superior intellectual skills and academic aptitude.
Gifted children can feel odd or different from other students leading to low self-esteem. They can become frustrated with the developmental differences between themselves and their peers and develop unrealistic expectations of others, leading to conflict. They can hide their talents, underachieve, or withdraw.