Risk+of+gifted+students

=At Risk=

Identification of students is important to be able to better suit their needs in the classroom.

“Gifted and Talented children are, in fact, deprived and can suffer psychological damage and permanent impairment of their abilities to function well which is equal to or greater than the similar deprivation suffered by any other population with special needs served by the Office of Education.” (pp. xi-xii) (Marland 1972)

Gifted and talented students are a group of learners who may be at risk of


 * frustration, irritability, anxiety, tedium, and social isolation.
 * intense social isolation and stress among those with IQ greater than 160.
 * difficulty making friends before 10 years old.
 * unmotivated, low self-esteem, and social rejection among the exceptionally gifted.
 * emotional awareness beyond their ability to control.
 * difficulty with peer relations proportional to their IQ.
 * loneliness, anxieties, phobias, interpersonal problems, fear of failure, and perfectionism.
 * depression among creatively gifted.

Many of the emotional or social difficulties gifted students experience disappear when their educational climates are adapted to their level and pace of learning. (Neihart, Reis, Robinson, & Moon, 2002 )