Gifted Students and Sensitivity
This resource guide delves into the emotional overexcitabilities and sensitivities of gifted children, offering insights into overexcitabilities identified by Kazimierz Dabrowski. It emphasizes the importance of understanding and supporting the unique needs of gifted students, particularly in areas like intellectual, emotional, and sensory sensitivities. The content provides valuable information for parents and teachers on how to recognize and address the sensitivities of gifted children effectively, promoting a more compassionate and informed approach towards nurturing their potential.
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Gifted Students and Sensitivity A Resource Guide for Parents, Teachers, and Students
Overexcitabilities Among Gifted Children Kazimierz Dabrowski idenitified 5 overexcitabilities that may occur in gifted children. It is important that teachers and parents are aware of them in order to provide the relevant support that these students require. They are: 1. Intellectual 2. Imaginational 3. Sensual 4. Psychomotor 5. Emotional Dabrowski, Kazimeirz. Positive Disintegration (1964; republished in 2017) Dabrowski's Overexcitabilities: a Layman's Explanation
Emotional Overexcitability and Sensitivity Sensitivity takes many forms: their feelings are easily hurt; they are compassionate toward others, protective, and easily moved to tears; they feel others feelings, respond strongly to criticism, and tend to react strongly to light, noise, textures, air pollution, and certain foods. From The Moral Sensitivity of Gifted Children and the Evolution of Society by LK Silverman Sensitivity Checklist
Video Resources Views regarding sensitivity may need to change Gifted, Creative, and Highly Sensitive Children Play Sensitivity, or oversensitivity, is generally seen by society as a fault or weakness in someone. However, this is not the case. There needs to be better education around this issue, and a more in-depth understanding of this trait. The Gentle Power of Highly Sensitive People Play "The Gift of Emotional Overexcitabilities" (Regina Hellinger, SENG 2013)
Tips for Parenting Parenting Emotionally Intense Gifted Children A Wealth of Information can be found on these sites: The Highly Sensitive Child Parenting the Highly Sensitive Boy Supporting the Emotional Needs of the Gifted (SENG) Supporting the Emotional Needs of the Gifted (SENG) Gifted Children: Emotionally Immature or Emotionally Intense? Supporting the Emotional Needs of the Gifted (SENG) Hoagies Gifted Education Page (www.hoagiesgifted.org)
