Over-excitabilities
Gifted Students with Attention Deficits: Fact and/or Fiction? Can We See the Forest for the Trees?
Discusses rising referrals of gifted students for ADHD-like behaviors and argues environmental factors—boredom, inappropriate curriculum, emotional overexcitability, and adult responses—can mimic ADHD. Recommends careful assessment, curriculum adjustment, talent development, and considering both neurological and environmental causes before medication.
Susan Baum
September 15, 2011