Children with Exceptional Abilities

Cognitive:

• Extraordinary quantity of information
• Advance comprehension
• Ability to generalise
• Works comfortably with abstract ideas
• Capacity of seeing unusual and diverse
  relationships
• Accelerated thought processes
• Generates original ideas and interests
• Unusual intensity of
  interest/commitment/goal-directed behaviour
• High level of language development
• Evaluative approach to self and others

Affective:

• Keen sense of humour may be gentle or
  hostile
• Idealism, sense of justice
• Sensitivity towards the feelings of others
• Heightened self awareness, sense of being
  different
• Emotional depth and intensity
• High expectations of self and others
• Earlier development of inner locus of
  control
• Strong need for consistency between
  abstract values and personal actions

Intuitive:

• Interest in intuitive knowledge,
  metaphysical ideas and phenomena; will experiment with these
• Ability to predict outcomes
• Interest in future
• Creative apparent in all areas of endeavour

Societal:

• Interest in social problems and issues
• Ability in conceptualising and solving
  societal problems
• Leadership