Gifted Testing in The Woodlands

What is Gifted Testing?

If a child is suspected as gifted, proper analysis and testing will allow understanding of the child’s specific learning needs, weaknesses, and strengths. Gifted children may excel in various areas of their lives, including intellectual, creative, artistic, leadership, and academic.

What are the Signs?

Because gifted children are so diverse, no gifted child is exactly the same. Each gifted child may possess a unique set of patterns, traits, and characteristics. However, there are many common traits that these children share that could indicate a gifted individual. These traits and characteristics can be categorized into cognitive, creative, affective and behavioral, and include:

- Excellent memory
- Large vocabulary and complex sentence structure for age
- Advanced comprehension of metaphors and abstract ideas
- Enjoys solving problems with numbers and puzzles
- Self-taught reading and writing skills
- Deep, intense feelings and reactions
- Highly sensitive
- Thinking is abstract, complex, logical, and insightful
- Longer attention span and intense concentration
- Learn basic skills quickly with little practice
- Asks probing questions
- Wide range of interests
- Highly developed curiosity
- Interest in experimenting and doing things differently
- Puts ideas together that are not typical
- Keen sense of humor
- Vivid imaginations
- Unusual alertness

Because no two gifted children are alike, it is important to collect information on both the child’s performance and potential through a combination of objective (quantitative) and subjective (qualitative) identification assessments. Once this data is properly collected, a decision can be made and the next step can be taken within the multi-phased process for identifying gifted students.

Geo-Anna Q. Hirshenbaum PhD, a Licensed Clinical Psychologist, provides extensive gifted testing in The Woodlands, Texas. Through careful analysis, Dr. Hirshenbaum’s assessment process allows for diagnostic clarity and individualized recommendations to move forward in pinpointing issues of distress, planning effective treatment, and reaching personal goals.