Less than half of that estimate of 6000 children with intellectual giftedness in Canary Islands is aware of their reality.
Neither they nor their parents or teachers have been able to label what happens to them. Therefore, without detection, there is also no correct approach to their superior intellectual abilities.
As Africa Borges, an expert on the subject, explained to us, many do not even know they have this condition.
Do you know how to recognize it?
Possibly to these Canarian families, it seems "striking" that the child from a very young age speaks with well structured phrases. Or learn to read before the average of children. It may also seem remarkable that the child is interested very early in transcendental issues, deep or scientific (with questions about death, the origin of things, among other issues). Or you find interesting their high degree of curiosity, creativity or perfectionism.
But in many cases, for lack of information, they do not resort to a specialist or to the educational system itself for guidance. In this way, it is difficult to detect if it is a child with high intellectual abilities.
The reality is that no more than half of the cases of gifted children are detected in Canary Islands
The misinformation on the subject and the low performance that these children often present in school (because they are demotivated or bored, mainly), do not facilitate the detection process.