The Unique Things of Gifted Children Development

摘要

Gifted children have an over excitability (superstimulatibility) development in the growing aspect of growth. The purpose of this study is to obtain a picture of the development of gifted children from five aspects of development namely: cognitive, motor, social, emotional, language and moral ethics. Thus, the unique things of the five developmental aspects of the gifted children will be known. Using descriptive method of qualitative approach, this research explores the development data of four gifted participants through observation, interview and documentation. Subjects studied in this study were four boys who were in grade 6 elementary school acceleration class. In this article it is shown that each subject has his/her own uniqueness in the five aspects of development. There are standing out and unique things found in the development of the subjects such as the development of aspects of language that precede chronological age, and so forth. Gifted children develop in extremely sensitive (extreme) conditions in some areas and are unique in every aspect of their developments.