L2 Exceptional Ability Flashcards
- is similar to unusual, unique, or outstanding qualities of people or objects.
-refers to
children/students who learn and develop differently from the other students.
-have exceptional
learning styles, exceptional talents, or exceptional behaviors. They fall outside of the normal range of development.
Exceptional Ability
Enumerate the Categories of Children with Exceptionalities
- Autism
- Behavioral Disorder
- Developmental Delays
- Disability
- Emotional Disorder
- Hearing Impairment
- Intellectual Disability
- Oral Language Disabilities
What are the types of behavioral disorders?
- ADHD
- Emotional Behavior Disorders
- Oppositional Defiant Disorder
- Anxiety
- OCD
The most striking and pervasive feature of
_______ is a child;s difficulty participating in the
social world.
Autism
The easiest to identify because it involves
behaviors that are readily seen such as temper
tantrums, physical aggression, excessive
argumentativeness, stealing, etc.
AKA…
Disruptive Behavior Disorders
A condition that impairs an individual’s ability to properly focus and to control impulsive behaviors, or it may make the person overactive
ADHD
Affects a person’s ability to be happy, control their emotions and pay attention in school.
Emotional Behavior Disorders
A behavioral disorder characterized by hostile,
irritable, and uncooperative attitude in children.
Oppositional Defiant Disorder
interferes with daily lives, causing insomnia and it negatively affects performance
at school or work.
Anxiety
Characterized by fears and irrational thoughts
that lead to obsession, which, in turn, cause
compulsions.
OCD
Refers to a child who has not gained the
developmental skills expected of him/her
compared to others of the same age.
Developmental Delays
state of being physically and/or mentally
different from some assumed ‘norm’ of human
corporeal and/or psychological functioning
Disability
A set of chronic and often recurrent psychiatric
disorders that are associated with significant
impairment in quality of life, productivity, and
interpersonal functioning
Emotional Disorder
loss in newborns most commonly
results from cytomegalovirus infection or genetic
defects; and in older children results from ear
infections or earwax.
Hearing Impairment
Individuals who are of normal intelligence but
suffer from poor mental information processing.
Intellectual Disability
Also known as Spoken Language Disorder a
significant impairment in acquisition and us of
language across modalities due to deficits in
comprehension
Oral Language Disabilities
What are the causation of exceptionalities?
- Chromosomal Gense
- Genetic/Inherited or Biological Factors
- Environmental Causes
● When a person acquire more or less number of
chromosomes
● This results in chromosomal abnormalities such
as Down Syndrome, Klinefelter Syndrome,
Turner Syndrome, Fragile X Syndrome, Williams
Syndrome, Angelman Syndrome, Prader-WIlli
Syndrome and Tay-Sachs Disease.
Chromosomal Genese
● A number of genetic or inherited causes lead to
abnormalities. Sickle Cell Disease,
Erythroblastosis or Rhesus Factor and Metabolic
Disorders like Phenylketonuria and Diabetes.
Genetic/Hereditary or BIological Factors
● Any agent that causes birth defects is known as
teratogen, which came from the Greek word
“utera” which means monster.
● Effects of teratogen are maternal disease,
maternal malnutrition, age and stress and other
environmental factors.
Environmental Factors
The state of possessing a great amount of natural ability, talent, or intelligence, which usually becomes evident at a very young age
Giftedness
An innate skill or ability, or an aptitude to excel in one
or more specific activities or subject areas.
Talent
Collective Definition by:
definition of giftedness are students with gifts
and talents who perform – or have the capability of
others of the same age, experience, and environment
in one or more domains. They require modification(s)
to their educational experience(s) to learn and realise
their potential.
National Association for Gifted Children or NAGC
Children and youth with outstanding talent perform or show the potential for performing, at remarkably high levels of accomplishment when compared with others
of their age, experience, or environment. These children and youth exhibit high-performance capability
in intellectual, creative, and/or artistic areas, possess an unusual leadership capacity, or excel in specific academic fields
Federal Definition
A leader and pioneer in gifted education and applying the pedagogy of gifted education teaching strategies to all students.
Joseph Renzulli
If creativity, above average ability, and task commitment overlapped what is it called?
Gifted Behaviour
Fluency, flexibility, originality of thought, openness to experience, sensitivity to
simulations and willingness to take risks.
Creativity
Above Average Ability
Include processing
information, integrating
experiences and abstract
thinking.
General Abilities
Above Average Ability
Include capacity to
acquire knowledge or
perform in an activity.
Specific Abilities
Perseverance, endurance, hard work, self-confidence, perceptiveness and a special
fascination for a subject.
Task Commitment
True or False:
Talented people have a
long-time focus on their
interests.
False. Gifted people…
True or FAlse
Gifted ability can be
developed by ourselves
False, Can’t
True or False
Talented abilities can
easily be created by
ourselves.
True
True or False
Gifted ability no requirements for hard
work.
True
True or False
Talented characteristics require hard work
True
True or False
Talented a unique ability
that is found in rare
people.
False. Gifted…
True or False
Talent can be found in
most people.
True
True or False
Gifted people have
effective characteristics in
several academic
subjects
True
True or False
Talented people have
exceptional
characteristics in several
practical subjects
True
At seven years old, Akrit Jaswal added“surgeon” to surname.
Gifted Child
At the age of eight, Jacob Barnett began attending Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI).
Gifted Child
● Demonstrated extraordinary intellectual capacity
at a young age, learning to read at age 3.
● She was a fixture at the city’s library and learned
Latin quickly, wrote poetry at 8, and dazzled
professors with her intellect. She eventually
joined a convent and wrote poems and plays.
Talented Child
Taught himself how to read as a toddler and
graduated from Stanford University Online High
School by the age of 11.
Gifted Child (Colin Carlson)
He started playing the piano when he was 3
years old, the violin at 4, and wowed the
Austrian royal family with his piano-playing
prowess as a 6-year-old.
Talented Child, Wolfang Amadeus Mozart
was a pianist, who started
learning to play the piano by age 5 and began composing by age 10.
Talented Child, Clara Schumann
Types of Talented
Simple
Multiple
Complex
Above-average level in a single intellectual
ability.
Simple Talented
Above-average performance in various
intellectual skills that aren’t closely related.
Multiple Talented
Above-average levels in several intellectual
aspects that are used in combination. This
category includes academic talent and artistic
talent.
Complex Talented
Types of Gifted
- Successful
- Autonomous
- Challenging and Creative
- Underground
- Drop Out
- Doubly Exceptional
_______ gifted children are obedient in
class, do homework without a lot of prompting,
test well, and may become perfectionists.
Successful Gifted Children
Are like successful children in that they
understand and can perform well in a traditional
school system. But they are willing to push
boundaries in ways that “successful” gifted
children are not.
Autonomous
Are generally the opposite of “successful” gifted
children. They may harbor extraordinary creative
gifts as writers, composers, artists,
photographers, graphic artists, or fashion
designers. Their creative dispositions put them
at odds with a traditional school system.
Challenging and Creative
● While many children’s giftedness is discovered
in their primary years, some students may slip
through the usual testing. Others don’t even
manifest their giftedness until their middle school
years.
Underground
● Require the most sensitivity and patience. They
may come from an unstable home environment
or a culture which discourages academic
excellence or gifted education (especially for
girls).
Drop Out
● Above-average levels in several intellectual
aspects that are used in combination. This
category includes academic talent and artistic
talent.
Doubly Exceptional
Causes of Talented and Giftedness
Nature and Nurture
is characterized by
significant limitations in both intellectual
functioning and in adaptive behavior as
expressed in conceptual, social, and practical
adaptive skills.
Intellectual Disability
A rare extraordinary condition in which persons
with serious mental disabilities, including autistic
disorder, have some “island of genius
Savant Syndrome
● An African American musician and composer.
● Blind from birth and born into the Maafa
(slavery)
Thomas “Blind” Wiggins
● BLind and has some sort of developmental
disability along with an unusual musical talent.
● He plays in his own improvised arrangements,
Leslie Lemke
● BOrin in 1979 in an upper-class British family, he
showed an early affinity for music and developed
his own idiosyncratic way of addressing the
piano keyboard.
● Has developed into a performer, improviser, and
composer of considerable interest and
originality, and he continues to grow and develop
as a musician. Paravicini’s performances usually
center on jazz standards.
Derek Paravicini
