Education & Teens

While many would discuss the aspects of developmental disorder and learning disabilities, this article would like to focus more on intellectual giftedness and present a general view upon what defines intellectual giftedness and the many forms that exist in the world today. The traditional way to describe it is the intellectual ability that is much higher than what is commonly found in most people. We are talking about children in this article and the phenomenon that most of the intellectually gifted children often develop their mental faculties at a far faster rate than their physical growth can catch up with; which would make them seem wiser and far older than their age.

One good example of a prodigious talent would be of course Albert Einstein, who developed his speech and cognitive functions at a rate so explosive, his natural growth hormones were not able to keep up. It is believed that intellectual giftedness is defined when children of an acceptable age seem to accelerate through the various stages of development as defined by scientist like Freud and Jean Piaget. They seem to have advanced sensual, intellectual, emotional, imaginative and psychomotor functions, far above what normal children are able to accomplish. They learn and are able to absorb and apply information at an astonishing speed and what sets them apart from the normal children is their ability to evolve information intrinsically and re create or create completely new incarnations of what they have learned. This would explain why Mozart was able to recreate such fantastic music, after grasping its basic principles within a short time and re creating it with his own touch.

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