1. When did you first expected giftedness in your child?
2. What milestones/traits (gross motor skills, fine motor skills, verbal skills, literacy skills, mathematical sills, social) really made you suspect giftedness?
3. Did your child have any delays? If so what area (gross motor skills, fine motor skills, verbal skills, literacy skills, mathematical sills, social)?
4. Is your child 2E? If they are did they have other signs besides the obvious, more quantifiable ones?
5. Has your child been tested?
6. Is your child across the board gifted or quite asynchronous? If so what are his/her strengths and were they obvious from a young age?
7. When your child was young (baby/toddler/preschooler), was their development fairly even or did they excel more in certain areas (gross motor skills, fine motor skills, verbal skills, literacy skills, mathematical sills, social)?
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Didn't expect it. Many others said child was very alert as a baby. We didn't notice anything but we weren't really looking. (Ah, perhaps you're asking when we first 'experienced' giftedness?) Around age 2.
See #2.
2.
At age 2, across the board, most skills were approx. 1-2 years ahead. At age 2.5 is when we started to pay attention and was thinking "something is a bit different". Puzzles were one extremely obvious hint because child could do much more than other children of the same age. Gross motor skills were approx. a year ahead. Fine motor skills were probably 1-2 years ahead. Literacy was about 2 years ahead at the time. Math skills were 2-3 years ahead at the time. Of course, we didn't really know that at the time. It wasn't until child was around 4-5 that we went back to look ...
3. No delays
4. No, not 2E.
5. Yes, tested much later when older and would qualify for DYS.
6. Across the board gifted
7. Excelled across the board
Thanks!
