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Now you can find us on www.anhugar.com

Anhugar opened a full time school in Switzerland,

designed to help specifically intellectually gifted children.

 

Retrouvez- nous sur notre nouveau site www.anhugar.com

avec l'ouverture en Suisse d'une Ecole pour enfants à Haut Potentiel Intellectuel

(H.P.I ou enfants précoces ou surdoués)
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Even though they are called gifted children, they will still be gifted when they grow up. If their potential is well nourrished and well managed, it can continue to develop all through life.
Gifted children have an IQ (Intellectual Quotient) well above average (130 and above). The average IQ is 100. Gifted children make up 2 to 5% of the population.

IQ is measured through tests given by specialized psychologists. These tests give a global vision on the person (including their IQ) but also their specificities. It is of utmost important to select a psychologist who is well acquainted with the specificities of giftedness; too often, the psychologists gives the parents the results and let them deal with the news unassisted.
 Some of them even say " Great news! Your child is very intelligent, she will do well at school".
Parents whose child is depressed, ill-at-ease and sometimes failing at school feel utterly abandonned.

If you are looking for a psychologist who is competent in the area of giftedness, we suggest you contact the Swiss Association for Gifted Children (ASEP) for recommendations http://www.asep-suisse.org

Gifted children often have some characteristics in common, as listed below. For further reading, check our page:

• They speak well and early (around the age of 2), there is no "baby talk". They master complicated syntax early. They would say "I wish you had told me" for instance.
• They have a precise vocabulary. They won't say "this is a dog" but "this is a Labrador" or "this is a Jack Russel"
• They ask methaphysical questions at a very young age "where does life come from?", "how did the earth start?", "where is the end of space?", etc.
• They understand the notion of death as an inevitable end around the age of 3 or 4 years old (most children don't before the age of 8 or 9).
• They are hypersensitive and very upset by injustice.
• Some are very advanced in their motricity (walk alone at the age of 9 months), others are very clumsy.
• They have an arborescent way of thinking, not a linear one.

They are also, first of all, children with children's needs and children's rights.
Needs for tenderness, belonging, love, understanding, laughs, games, tears.
Rights for respect, difference, happiness, descovery, self-esteem.

These are only examples and the fact of exhibiting these characteristics or not cannot make a diagnostic of giftedness: they are only general information. Some gifted children understand very quickly that the best way to be included and belong is to hide their differences.

Girls tend to adapt more easily than boys. They do their best to "fit in" and are less likely to be identified as gifted in school.

Boys are more likely to disturb the class so are more rapidly identified; they are bored so make untimely comments outloud, move around a lot, fool around, etc.

For for all these children, there is a risk of deep boredom, demotivation and depression.



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