Giftedness

Giftedness
There are many ways in which a person can be gifted. The United States Office of education report defines giftedness as a demonstrated achievement or aptitude for excellence in any one of the six areas:
1) Psychomotor ability: This is one of the most overlooked areas in which individuals can clearly excel. We are dealing here with peoples of outstanding abilities in skills that require agility, strength, speed, quickness, co-ordination and the like.
2) Visual and performing arts: Some people even as children, demonstrate an unusual talent of art, music, drama or writing.
3) Leadership ability:Leadership skills are valued in most societies and there seem to be individuals who are particularly gifted in this area.This is often true even with very young children.Youngsters with good leadership skills tend to be intellectually bright but they are not necessarily are smartest of the group.
4) Creative or productive thinking: This area of giftedness has received considerable attention over the past 25 years.Here we are thinking about the individuals who may be intellectually above average but again not necessarily so.Among the other things people with this type of giftedness are able to generate unique and different solutions to problems.
5) Specific academic aptitude: In this case we are talking about people who have flair or a special ability for a particular subject or two.Someone who is a real Whig in math, history or laboratory science without necessarily being outstsnding in other academic areas would fit this category.
6) Intellectually gifted: Inclusion in this group is based on scores earned on a general intelligence test, usually a Wechsler test or the Stanford-Binet intelligence scale.It is most likely that when people use the term mentally gifted, and they are referring to individuals who would fit this category people of exceptionally high IQ.