A Synthesis of Research on Psychological Types of Gifted Adolescents
This synthesis of 14 studies (19 samples, 5,723 participants) examines MBTI personality types of gifted adolescents. Results show gifted youth prefer intuition and perceiving, and are more introverted, intuitive, thinking, and perceiving than peers. Findings highlight gender and ability differences and suggest instructional adaptations for gifted learners.
Gifted Kids at Risk: Who’s Listening?
The article warns that gifted children often face empathy loss, rejection, and emotional risks including depression, anxiety, and social isolation. It lists symptoms and danger signals, explains myths about giftedness, and urges parents, educators, counselors, and policymakers to recognize needs, provide services, and foster empathy and support.
Benny and Me: A Father Sees Himself Through His Son
A father recounts his son Ben’s early struggles with Asperger’s, school challenges, and gradual progress through individualized support and dedicated teachers. He reflects on shared traits, worries about the future, and hopes for greater understanding and accommodations for twice-exceptional children.
Rising to Juilliard: A Profile of a Gifted Young Actor
Profile of Jeremy Tardy traces his journey from Milwaukee children’s theater to Juilliard, highlighting mentors, family support, passion for performance, emotional intensity, intellectual curiosity, and challenges staying on track. It describes his influences, rehearsal rituals, current projects, and aspirations for a mainstream acting career and global stages.
La “sobre excitabilidad” en los superdotados
Traducción que explica la teoría de sobrexcitabilidad (OE) en superdotados, basada en Dabrowski. Describe cinco tipos: psicomotora, sensorial, intelectual, imaginativa y emocional; sus manifestaciones, ventajas y desafíos, e incluye recomendaciones prácticas para padres y docentes.
Tips For Parents: Introverts
Practical guidance for parents and educators on supporting introverted children. Describes common introvert traits—need for privacy, thorough thinking, and sensitivity—and offers strategies for home and classroom: honoring personal space, allowing processing time, private feedback, alternatives to oral presentations, and ways to recharge.
Tips for Parents of Intense Children
This post offers practical strategies for parents and caregivers of emotionally intense children: recognize positive aspects, accept differences, build listening skills and feeling vocabulary, encourage expression through words or creative outlets, teach respectful responses, anticipate reactions, use journaling and physical activity, and consult listed resources for further support.
Overexcitability and the Gifted
Dabrowski’s concept of overexcitabilities describes heightened intensities—psychomotor, sensual, intellectual, imaginational, and emotional—often found in gifted individuals. The article outlines each OE, their behaviors and practical strategies to support overexcitable people, emphasizing acceptance, communication skills, stress management, and fostering personal growth.
Fostering Adult Giftedness: Acknowledging and Addressing Affective Needs of Gifted Adults
This article outlines five affective needs for gifted adults: acknowledging gifts, nurturing identity, accepting imperfection, managing overexcitabilities, and learning coping skills. It explains validation, affirmation, affiliation, affinity, and practical stress-management and communication strategies to support emotional growth and model healthy behavior for gifted children.
How to Charm Gifted Adults into Admitting Giftedness: Their Own and Somebody Else’s
Kuipers argues many gifted adults hide or deny their giftedness because social definitions tie giftedness to eminent achievement. He introduces “eXtra intelligence” (Xi) as an accessible, neutral concept to help adults recognize talents, strengthen gifted identity through validation, affirmation, affiliation and affinity, and find personal fulfillment.