Developmental and Cognitive Characteristics of “High-Level Potentialities” (Highly Gifted) Children

Table 4

Academic problems and behavioural and/or personality disorders among “high-potential” children.

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Underperforming, poor student

Lazy, lacking motivation

Identified disorders including dysgraphia, dyslexia, spelling

problems, dyspraxia, attentional disorders, hyperactivity,

and impulsiveness

Intellectual/psychomotor/affective dyssynchrony

Clowning to gain attention

Destructuring tonus-emotion hyper-reactivity

Psycho-affective immaturity

Apathy

Frequent psychosomatic disorders

Behavioural fluctuation

Oversensitiveness

Withdrawing attitude

Anxiety

Willfulness and tantrums

Reactional aggressiveness

Violent behaviours

Delinquency, drug, and alcohol abuse

Megalomaniac trends

Difficulties of eye contact and difficult relationships

(borderline psychotic)

Depressive and suicidal tendencies

Identity disorders

Self-harm (mental or physical)

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