Over-excitabilities
Voices from the Village: A Teaching Community Developing Identity for Gifted Readers
This article explains how picture books can help gifted children understand and embrace Dabrowski’s five overexcitabilities—intellectual, sensual, imaginational, psychomotor, and emotional. It offers strategies for parents and educators and curated children’s book lists to support each overexcitability and foster positive identity development.
Dr. Katie Coggin and Dr. Kim Freed.
March 11, 2021