{"id":16075,"date":"2020-01-15T12:55:57","date_gmt":"2020-01-15T11:55:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dide.org\/most-gifted-children-are-unidentified-in-our-schools\/"},"modified":"2020-01-15T12:55:57","modified_gmt":"2020-01-15T11:55:57","slug":"most-gifted-children-are-unidentified-in-our-schools","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dide.org\/en\/most-gifted-children-are-unidentified-in-our-schools\/","title":{"rendered":"Most gifted children are unidentified in our schools."},"content":{"rendered":"

We spoke with Carmen Sanz Chac\u00f3n, who is gifted, a psychologist specializing in giftedness and high abilities, President of the El Mundo del Superdotado Foundation, and Director of El Mundo del Superdotado<\/a><\/strong>. <\/span><\/p>\n

What is intellectual giftedness? How is a gifted child identified? <\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n

Giftedness is usually spoken of when a person has an intellectual level that is more than two standard deviations above the population average, which approximately corresponds to a 98th percentile and an intelligence quotient of 130<\/strong> or higher.<\/span><\/p>\n

Giftedness is identified by measuring intelligence with the appropriate tools and with a professional with sufficient experience in that field. That is why we always recommend that the assessment be carried out by psychologists who are experts in giftedness and high abilities<\/strong>, such as those who make up the team at El Mundo del Superdotado<\/strong>. <\/span><\/p>\n

However, in our country there is confusion between this concept of giftedness and the concept of high abilities. The concept of high abilities used in the field of education in Spain has several interpretations, depending on the autonomous communities, because there is no consensus at the national level. Thus, in some autonomous communities an intelligence quotient equal to or greater than 130 is also required, but in other autonomous communities it is sufficient to demonstrate a performance above the 75th percentile in different areas, or to stand out significantly in one or more areas. <\/span><\/p>\n

Sometimes it is also required that the student, in addition to being gifted, be very creative and highly motivated, which is often incompatible with the lack of special education.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Most gifted children who do not receive special education are bored and unmotivated in regular classes.<\/span><\/h3>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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Do gifted people possess any particular characteristic that makes it easier for parents or teachers to identify them? <\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n

In our office we have been assessing gifted children, adolescents and adults for more than fifteen years, and not as a general rule, but very frequently we find the following characteristics that are part of what we have been disseminating as the decades of giftedness<\/strong>:<\/span><\/p>\n

Gifted people very often: <\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n