Over Excitabilities
If your child is…
Always overstressed, over-reacts behaviourally or emotionally, easily distracted or getting bored
Problematic in school and at home
Suggested by teacher that they may have ADHD. Yet, your child shows capabilities in…
- Learning
- Mathematics and science
- Creativity
- Leadership
- Motivation and attitude to learning
The problem might due to: giftedness, emotional sensitivity and overexcitabilities
Some gifted children with overexcitability have a high emotional reactivity, energy level and high arousal of the central nervous system.
Five areas of overexcitability had been identified (Dabrowski, 1972)
• Psychomotor
• Sensual
• Intellectual
• Imaginational
• Emotional
Gifted children tend to experience the world with more intensity and this can lead to great successes, innovations, and wonderful creativity but it can also be very frustrating for a child and a parent.
At ChiLD we will identify any OE using the The Overexcitability Questionnaire -Two (OEQII).