Characteristics
* Adopted from The National Research Center on the Gifted and Talented and from The Council for Exceptional Children.
- Accelerated and intense rate of development
- Highly sensitive
- Advanced development in one or more academic areas
- May have a high level of energy
- Intense interest, with high motivation for learning
- Lengthy attention span
- Excellent memory, large knowledge base
- Mature and developed sense of humor
- Keen sense of morality and justice
- Questions and challenges people and ideas
- Early language development
- Early reader and/or interest in books
- Highly expressive with a large and advanced vocabulary
- Enjoys word play
- Advanced visual-spatial abilities
- Draws inferences and constructs abstractions
- Imaginative and creative
- Inventive problem solver
* Gifted students may exhibit some or many of the above characteristics that indicate giftedness.