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ted Children’s Drawings and Significant Others’ Needs
Table 5 Students’ Skills and Abilities as Reported by Parents f rf
Fields of exceptional abilities as referred by parents .
Great range of knowledge/studiousness
Creativity/imagination .
Organizational skills .
Chess attainments .
Memory skills .
Justice sense .
Arts .
Psychical Science skills .
Mathematical meanings/numeric handling .
IT skills/electric devices interest .
Verbal abilities .
Total answers .
Notes n = 36.
Table 5 presents the fields in which the students demonstrated special
skills as referred by parents. In particular, the majority of children (75 of
cases) had excellent language skills, 50 of children are distinguished for
their range of knowledge/curiosity and 50 appeared talents in Arts (18 out
of 36).
Looking into the Drawings: Case Studies
Christine’s Case. Christine was a girl almost 7 years old, attending first grade
at school when her parents contacted the University Laboratory. Her mother
asked for information about enriched educational material so that Christine
won’t get bored at school and at home. She also wanted to find ways to help
her older daughter, to understand and conciliate with her younger sister’s ex-
ceptional skills. Her parents, described Christine as an amiable, competitive,
imaginative, energetic child, independent and able to carry out any work.
However, they also mentioned particular difficulties that were troubling her
over her relationships with classmates. Particularly she often gets hurt by her
peers’ teases, something that she thinks it is difficult to cope with. Finally,
they mentioned that lately she had fears and concerns about issues related
to death and reincarnation.
The nursery teacher had distinguished that Christine is a gifted child. Her
primary school teacher characterizes her as a leader, calm but strong, cooper-
ative, organizational and mature. In class Christine gets bored, and concern-
ing her classmates, quite often she declares frustrated from their immaturity.
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Table 5 Students’ Skills and Abilities as Reported by Parents f rf
Fields of exceptional abilities as referred by parents .
Great range of knowledge/studiousness
Creativity/imagination .
Organizational skills .
Chess attainments .
Memory skills .
Justice sense .
Arts .
Psychical Science skills .
Mathematical meanings/numeric handling .
IT skills/electric devices interest .
Verbal abilities .
Total answers .
Notes n = 36.
Table 5 presents the fields in which the students demonstrated special
skills as referred by parents. In particular, the majority of children (75 of
cases) had excellent language skills, 50 of children are distinguished for
their range of knowledge/curiosity and 50 appeared talents in Arts (18 out
of 36).
Looking into the Drawings: Case Studies
Christine’s Case. Christine was a girl almost 7 years old, attending first grade
at school when her parents contacted the University Laboratory. Her mother
asked for information about enriched educational material so that Christine
won’t get bored at school and at home. She also wanted to find ways to help
her older daughter, to understand and conciliate with her younger sister’s ex-
ceptional skills. Her parents, described Christine as an amiable, competitive,
imaginative, energetic child, independent and able to carry out any work.
However, they also mentioned particular difficulties that were troubling her
over her relationships with classmates. Particularly she often gets hurt by her
peers’ teases, something that she thinks it is difficult to cope with. Finally,
they mentioned that lately she had fears and concerns about issues related
to death and reincarnation.
The nursery teacher had distinguished that Christine is a gifted child. Her
primary school teacher characterizes her as a leader, calm but strong, cooper-
ative, organizational and mature. In class Christine gets bored, and concern-
ing her classmates, quite often she declares frustrated from their immaturity.
61
