Keep your child’s drawings and date them!ĭraws a person with neck, hands and clothesįollows directions to put object on chair etc. What you should be looking for is broad consistent advancement, rather than the odd isolated advanced ability.
The following charts developed by GERRIC have been gathered over many years of research and are presented here as a guideline. However, the research shows that gifted kids tend to gain skills with ease and at a particularly fast rate, and this is why a differentiated school curriculum is required for such children. Is she at a normal rate of development or is there a possibility that she is gifted? Do you had any advice or resources to share to help me support her?Ī: It can be difficult to determine giftedness at such a young age because many gifted identification tests and assessments are aimed at students who are two, three, or four years old at the earliest. I mostly speak to her in French but our social interactions are in English and sometimes Spanish. Her verbal skills may not seem advanced, which I know is a better sign that gross motor skills but I think it is because she is raised bilingual. She recently turned 7 months old, has been crawling for weeks, can crawl up stairs, can stand for very long, using whatever she founds to pull herself up, pushes things to take steps and is working really hard on balancing on her own! She has been feeding herself since she was a 4-month-old. She has been reaching most of the milestone 1.5 to 2 months early. From day one she was very alert and seemed aware in a way most babies aren’t.
Q: I’m reaching out because I have a 7-month-old baby who, I believe, is gifted. We recently received the following message from a parent of a precocious baby:
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