Gifted Issues Discussion homepage Forums Identification, Testing & Assessment Can you be only partially gifted?

Also, I wouldn't diminish it by calling it partially gifted. My take is that a person is gifted (period), perhaps in one area, perhaps in more than one. :-)

I wouldn't call it partially gifted, but rather verbally gifted, etc. It actually is common to have academic strengths and relative weaknesses. DD8 is very strong on the verbal side (reading/writing) and artistically, but clearly not gifted in math. However, she is bright enough and elementary math is basic enough that she has no problems aceing 4th grade math in her 3rd grade GT class. The difference between her and her siblings is that she actually has to be taught and benefits from modeling by the teacher and practice.

Gifted is gifted. Gifted can mean universally gifted, but it can also mean gifted in some specific areas.

That said- to the OP - your child is young yet. My daughter was not interested in math at that age and did not display any particularly strong mathematical abilities.

Now she is 11 and they are starting to learn some algebra at school. She is spreading her mathematical wings, as it were. She will never be evenly balanced with math and words - but the difference is a bit less obvious as she gets more post-arithmetic exposure.

I used to wonder if she was only gifted in reading, but now I know she is PG in reading and only gifted in math.

Asynchronous development. I love the term. So much more meaningful than "gifted" at times.