Is #giftedness (IQ > 130, roughly speaking) a form of neurodiversity?

#highIQ
#mensa
#neurodiversity

"Some young children create stunningly realistic drawings ... [While others] create nonrepresentational paintings that have been mistaken for the works of adult abstract expressionist artists." 🎨🖼️

Jennifer E. Drake intruiguingly argues we lack an understanding of the latter.

Understanding artistic giftedness at a young age requires more research on the development of these "abstract art prodigies". 🧠💡

Can't agree more! ♥️

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/10400419.2023.2243755?src=

#Art #Creativity #Education #Giftedness

"Some young children create stunningly realistic drawings ... [While others] create nonrepresentational paintings that have been mistaken for the works of adult abstract expressionist artists." 🎨🖼️

Jennifer E. Drake intruiguingly argues we lack an understanding of the latter.

Understanding artistic giftedness at a young age requires more research into the development of these "abstract art prodigies". 🧠💡

Can't agree more! ♥️

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/10400419.2023.2243755?src=

#Art #Creativity #Education #Giftedness

"Some young children create stunningly realistic drawings ... [While others] create nonrepresentational paintings that have been mistaken for the works of adult abstract expressionist artists." 🎨🖼️

Jennifer E. Drake intruiguingly argues we lack an understanding of the latter.

Understanding artistic giftedness at a young age requires more research in to the development of these "abstract art prodigies". 🧠💡

Can't agree more! ♥️

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/10400419.2023.2243755?src=

#Art #Creativity #Education #Giftedness

What makes creativity by children hard to judge❓

Among the many interesting results in this study by Dumas and colleagues was that evaluators "... were more likely to disagree on highly original responses from Gifted/Talented students".

Important findings for researchers and educators.💡

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/jocb.588

#Creativity #Education #Educators #Giftedness #GiftedEducation #Evaluation #Psychology #Talent

A bonus poem; too good to omit!

Sissy
- by Aaron Smith

https://www.tumblr.com/ukdamo/711938881056030720/sissy?source=share

#AaronSmith #gay #identity #GenderRole #expectation #SelfHood #power #giftedness #creativity #son #dad #poetry

On Monday, Brandon Tessers, LCPC, and @adhdmarie continued the conversation on #intelligence, with a focus on the concepts of #giftedness and being #TwiceExceptional, or #2e. Catch up with the "This Is Not Therapy" Hour now on YouTube:
https://youtu.be/beOCtPR_tnM

On this week's "This Is Not Therapy" Hour, Brandon Tessers and @adhdmarie discussed the concept of #intelligence. Catch up on YouTube: https://youtu.be/KvD8lPwr9cQ

#neurodiversity #giftedness #2e #MentalHealth #coaching #TherapistsConnect

"Most trans-formationally gifted people are sufficiently transactionally gifted that they can reach a position in society from which they can make the meaningful difference they seek to make."  

#Gifted #Giftedness #Exceptionality #Neurodiversity
https://doi.org/10.3390/educsci11050192​

"Most trans-formationally gifted people are sufficiently transactionally gifted that they can reach a
position in society from which they can make the meaningful difference they seek to make."

#Gifted #Giftedness #Exceptionality #Neurodiversity
https://doi.org/10.3390/educsci11050192

My weekly blog: The giftedness of humanity: a seasonal reflection. #GivingTuesday #BlackFriday #CyberMonday #giftedness #humanity #poverty. #giving. https://scottishcare.org/the-giftedness-of-humanity-a-seasonal-reflection/

My weekly blog: The giftedness of humanity: a seasonal reflection. #GivingTuesday #BlackFriday #CyberMonday #giftedness #humanity #poverty. #giving. https://scottishcare.org/the-giftedness-of-humanity-a-seasonal-reflection/

Those of us who live and work in the field of #giftedness recognize the arbitrariness of #IQ scores. For example, a popular destination testing center in Colorado is well known for ignoring protocol and testing kids on the selected subtests that they know gifted kids will ace. So many of their clients come out with artificially high scores ... and, incidentally, an extraordinarily high percent are also diagnosed with convergence insufficiency. /2

I've been reading a bit more about #ADHD / #ADD in childhood to prove or disprove to myself that it is a trait I possess. Leaving aside debate over what it is or is not, these slides sum up my experience as a #gifted child pretty succinctly.

Slides from Strategies for Twice Exceptional Children Who are Gifted and ADHD, CHADD Conference 2017, by Lori Henderson

http://www.chadd.org/portals/0/Content/CHADD/Conferences_Training/Annual_Conference/2017/handouts/FD03_%20Strategies%20for%20Twice.....Lori%20Henderson.pdf

#giftedness #actuallyADHD