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My son was noticed by a GT teacher on a trip to the zoo with other kids from our church when he was four. She was driving the bus. Older elementary aged kids on the bus were spelling out words for my son, trying to find a word he couldn't identify and I don't think he got any of them wrong. One girl asked him if he knew what 9 X 9 was and he somehow knew the answer to that also. He loved the attention.

Most of the kids in my son's musical theater class are gifted. I think I am pretty good at spotting gifted kids too. So far, all the kids in the group that I suspected were gifted turned out to be gifted.

There was a four year old at our Vacation Bible School a few years ago that I thought might be gifted. He wasn't reading yet, but he had advanced vocabulary and asked a lot of questions. I said something to his mom about how smart he was and she just gave me a strange look. In our small town, it is better to be good at sports than smart.

Hello! We suspect our son who is about to enter kindergarten in the fall is gifted. We are concerned that the instruments used as part of his evaluation will be inappropriate. Our district does not ID gifted until third grade, and has been underidentifying gifted. He has thus far been given a PIAT and a K-BIT with oddly incongruous result. Any suggestions? Thanks!

Hi Denmark,
I'm so pleased for you. Nowadays I am finally feeling "like a grown up" and I know that I would never have this kind of peace if my son hadn't introduced me to myself!

I'm so excited. My son just completed his online application for Splash at MIT. I reccomend this experience for folks with Middle School and High School aged kids who are within a 6 hour drive of Boston Mass. So this morning at work, I asked a lady if she had any Middle Schoolers in her life, and when she said yes, I told her about it, and she said she will check it out tonight because her daughter definitly needs it, and she will talk to her daughter's school to see if they can get a bus together! ((happy tears)) Let's just say that I've been on the "other end" of this lady's Intensities in the past, and that because I have new eyes to see the effects of gifteness that aren't so pretty, I have been able to manage things fairly well, but I never directly stated where I got my special insight. So today was the first time we both acknowledged to each other that we are similar in this way. I sure hope the other few families that I 'keep an eye on' come in in the next few days so I can tell them!

here's the link to Splash: http://esp.mit.edu/learn/Splash/index.html

Smiles,
Trinity

So sad that I live so far away....

You could travel for this one! I figure the more gifted the kid, the farther the parents travel for this one. Boston is a very historical city - LOL.

One kid's mom said that they were from Florida, on their way to Thansgiving in Chicago.

Did she think I was going to swallow that one?

Smiles,
Trin