![]() ![]() Remember reading/watching the highly emotional/volatile/intense personalities of geniuses in books and films? Your little one who is exceptionally intelligent will also feel everything intensely.īoth negative and positive experiences are felt deeply by genius children, and they also have a very mature thinking which is quite complex. ![]() Your little child genius will have an intense personality too. They will observe the number of toys which can fit in their box and so on. repeated behaviors or activities happening around him/her earlier than others. He/she will remember shapes and colors, your routine, and recognizes ‘pattern recognition’ i.e. Your exceptionally intelligent child is probably quite observant too. Your child will reach other milestones early as well, but you’ll be surprised at how easily your child forms complicated sentences with ease. If your baby is forming sentences before 14 months of age, and loves your story telling sessions, or is able to follow your instructions to carry out a particular task, then be assured that your baby is a gifted child. Gurgles, and cries and giggles are the vocabulary of an infant, till the age of one year, when they start to talk, and form sentences by about 18 months. One of the first signs that your kid is a genius is the ability to communicate early. Exceptional language and communication skills Here are some signs which can tell if your child is a gifted child: 12 – Signs of a gifted child 1. Apart from tests, there are other ways to assess the intelligence of your child is when he/she is just an infant or toddler. There are tests to reveal the ‘genius’ness of a child. What if he or she has the potential to reach the heights of Marie Curie, Einstein and Beethoven. ![]() There are some signs which can tell you whether your child has unusual intelligence, maybe even a genius. In other words, she needs to be able to abstract what 'A' is out of many different versions of A.All children are unique and special in their own way. A child needs to be able to recognize A even if it has a hat on it or if it's written in lower letters. It's not just visual discrimination - it's ability to separate relevant from irrelevant. I agree it is an accomplishment for a toddler to do all the above, but I don't think it is THAT big a deal or necessarily indicative of a high level of overall giftedness. Certainly MY children did not have that ability at that young age.Īnd the child needs the ability to perform paired association. That part is unusual in an 18 month old, I agree. In other words, if anyone's toddler is spending a lot of time with letters.Īnonymous wrote: The child needs to have good visual discrimination (to distinguish between p and b, w and m, etc.) and good visual memory, true. The "your toddler" part in the PP was the "you" meaning people in general. It took me a minute to figure out what you were talking about. When in reality, reading requires so much more than letter sounds, and most children will not be developmentally ready to read at two. Or, they proudly announce that they surely must be able to read, they just aren't showing it. Parents complain that there two-year-old who knows letter sounds will not read. It is awesome, but not remarkable or abnormal.Īnd, recognizing letters in nowhere close to reading. So, if you toddler is spending a lot of time with letters, please do not be surprised when they learn them. It is just most parents and their children couldn't care less about them. In my experience young toddlers will memorize letters if given the opportunity. In my experience it really is no big deal. And it's not true that you can just teach it, either - the child must have a mind ready to be taught. It's hard and very few children can do it at 18 months and it's pretty close to reading. The child needs to be able to do "pattern recognition" - recognize letters that are "burried" in noise. It's not only about matching shapes to sounds either. ![]() It's memorizing 26 letter names.Īctually reading at 18 months is a much higher bar.īut even reading at 18 months is not an absolute prognostication of testing gifted later on.īut it's not just about memory. like the tiger mom daughter.Įven that, though, is not a huge achievement. Not repeat them in order but recognize them individually. There are kids who actually know the letters at 18 months. But those who don't aren't necessarily behind and could even be verbally gifted themselves, just not showing it at an early age. not being force fed the alphabet day in day out) probably do have more advanced oral language skills than those who don't. However, in general kids who can repeat the letters in order having only heard them a few times (i.e. It doesn't necessarily mean that the child is advanced. Anonymous wrote:But, I mean, parents who say their kid is gifted because they knew their alphabet at 18 months are just wrong, right?īeing able to memorize the names of the letters in order is a pretty low bar. ![]()
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