* Adopted from The National Research Center on the Gifted and Talented and from The Council for Exceptional Children.

• Accelerated and intense rate of development
• Highly sensitive
• Advanced development in one or more academic areas
• May have a high level of energy
• Intense interest, with high motivation for learning
• Lengthy attention span
• Excellent memory, large knowledge base
• Mature and developed sense of humor
• Keen sense of morality and justice
• Questions and challenges people and ideas
• Early language development
• Early reader and/or interest in books
• Highly expressive with a large and advanced vocabulary
• Enjoys word play
• Advanced visual-spatial abilities
• Draws inferences and constructs abstractions
• Imaginative and creative
• Inventive problem solver

* Gifted students may exhibit some or many of the above characteristics that indicate giftedness.