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Is my child “high potential”?

2021-03-19T18:37:35.333Z


DECRYPTION - Your child keeps asking you questions to understand everything? Does he or she need only once to learn a lesson or a poem? Two specialists guide us to identify a precocious or “gifted” child.


You firmly believe that your child is "

different

" from others.

Apart from any affective consideration, and in all objectivity, you sometimes observe that it "

denotes

".

You find him strangely relevant for his age, "

ahead

" of his comrades or driven by subjects that do not (yet) occupy the minds of his peers.

Is it just very lively or truly “

high potential

”?

Read also: These gifted children who exhaust themselves at school

Appeared in the 2000s, the term is added to others - gifted, precocious, zebra - but refers to these same children with high intellectual capacities, outside the norm.

"

They have an intellectual functioning different from others, an intuitive intelligence

," comments Béatrice Millêtre, psychologist and author of several books on the subject (1).

They are smarter than others, as intelligence is measured on IQ tests (Editor's note), at 130 (score from which a child is considered gifted, Editor's note).

 "

The specialist would like to point it out straight away:

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Source: lefigaro

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