Gifted Assessments
All children are uniquely talented and gifted, but gifted/intelligence evaluations are performed to determine appropriate school placements and intervention for children who have shown advanced skills or learning and who may benefit from a more challenging learning program.
Some signs of learners who may be advance or possibly gifted:
- Highly developed curiosity
- Unusual alertness, even in infancy
- Rapid learner; puts thoughts together quickly
- Excellent memory
- Unusually large vocabulary and complex sentence structure for age
- Enjoys solving problems, especially with numbers and puzzles
- Learn basic skills quickly and with little practice
- Asks probing questions
- Wide range of interests (or extreme focus in one area)
- Interest in experimenting and doing things differently
- Puts idea or things together that are not typical
- Desire to organize people/things through games or complex schemas
- Vivid imaginations
- Independent
What Do Gifted Evaluations Include?
- Brief interviews with parents and student
- Direct testing of student’s cognitive abilities
- Scoring and interpretation of testing data
- A written summary of testing results
- Feedback session to review results and recommendations