• Characteristics of Various Areas of Giftedness


         General Intellectual Ability      Specific Academic Ability
    Visual/Performing Arts
    Creative Thinking
    • Formulates abstractions
    • Processes information in complex ways
    • Observant
    • Excited about new ideas
    • Enjoys hypothesizing
    • Learns rapidly
    • Uses a large vocabulary
    • Inquisitive
    • Self-starter
    • Good memorization ability
    • Advanced comprehension
    • Acquires basic skill knowledge quickly
    • Widely read in special-interest area
    • High academic success in special-interest area
    • Pursues special interests with enthusiasm and vigor
    • Outstanding in sense of spatial relationships
    • Unusual ability for expressing self feeling, moods, etc. through art, dance, drama, music
    • Good motor coordination
    • Exhibits creative expression
    • Desire for producing "own product"
    • Observant
    • Independent thinker
    • Exhibits original thinking in oral and written expression
    • Possesses sense of humor
    • Creates and invents
    • Challenged by creative tasks
    • Improvises often
    • Does not mind being different from the crowd