Two American psychologists G. Kaf and A. de Haan worked on the study of innate abilities for a long time and eventually developed a unique questionnaire that would help to reveal the child's abilities. Etaanketa tests the child's abilities in the main areas of human activity.
Five Signs of a Musical Gift
You can consider a child talented in a musical direction, if he has the following abilities:
melodies are easily remembered, he quickly picks up the ichthyram, listens to the sounds of the melody, and this should happen unobtrusively and lightly;
When a child always reaches for music, he uses every opportunity to listen to it;
can compose his own tunes, which are often crooned;
In the case when the child is very fond of playing the instruments or on some specific. You can see the child's musical excitement and the eagerness of the kizra, he very sensibly approaches to this question and without any rest puts it;
it is possible that he learns with great traction to play the instrument or has already learned, especially if this happens without outside help.
Five signs of technical abilities
Your child can have good technical inclinations when he has the following symptoms:
A vigorous interest in cars and various mechanisms. It is important not to confuse interest, because almost all children wondering how it works. But not everyone will strive to understand the essence, and with constant traction;
When the child draws mechanisms, sometimes even with the likeness of the drawings;
especially if he constantly works with designers, collects electronic circuits. He likes to disassemble various broken mechanisms and gets into trouble, understands their device and tries to fix it;
often such children may be interested in technical literature that is accessible to adults;
the child can disassemble the mechanisms and equipment, then to assemble some kind of his device.
Six traits of scientific work
Scientific work can be his vocation, pay attention to the following:
if the child has a good vocabulary, using which, he will be able to convey to you his thoughts, other people's explanations or explain some observations. Very often such children either keep diaries with records, or beggars, something to write down;
sometimes, without resorting to explanations in books, they try to explain the causes of events, certain phenomena;
if the child has well developed abstract thinking, he knows how to develop a topic that is generalized;
is keen on collecting or creating any schemes or collections;
especially if the child is interested in scientific articles, when he enters adult magazines and books, while peers clearly remain behind him in development;
he will not cool down to the started cases too quickly, and even after he can be laughed at.
Seven signs of the artist's talent
Perhaps your child is a born actor or artist of some genre:
without having any verbal explanations, he can express it with gestures of mimicry;
correctly evaluates beautiful and unusual clothes;
such a child can often be in the center of attention of an adult audience, while at the same time it will feel free to sing, read poetry or otherwise attract attention;
looking for everything new in some creative direction, very plastic;
a gift to the parody of voices, habits or facial expressions;
monitors the reaction and emotions of people, tends to arouse a burbling reaction in the story;
it easily changes voices and tones, especially if it makes the person about whom the speech is being spoken about.
Nine signs of an extraordinary intellect
Do not miss the intellectual abilities of your child:
the child has a very good memory;
when a child asks a lot of questions, while they are in a topic very similar to those of an adult;
distinguishes correct and well-founded actions of people from dispassionate, the child has a very clear mind, even if the topic is not expressed until the end, he already understands it, good judgment;
on the background of peers such a child will be vividly distinguished by intelligence. This does not mean that he will be an excellent student. He simply bored science, because he knows all this and understands it much deeper;
often such children read a lot of literature that does not match their age, and run ahead in the curriculum;
He perceives any material in school with ease and remembers it well;
these children are very good, more than their peers, are informed about processes and events that concern themselves, development, life or health;
Observant and very receptive to novelties that affect the environment;
often these children have a very high level of judgment, self-esteem hinders them in communicating with peers, marked by cunning calculating.
Eight indicative talents
Physically, children develop very quickly, it is important not to miss and to reveal the sports talents of the child:
courage pushes him to ill-considered actions, despite our sins and bruises;
the child has just a sea of energy;
even in the late evening the child does not show fatigue;
in competitions, games, and even in street fights, he always leads;
it is plastic, physically developed better than peers, it has a good coordination of movements;
such children quickly and independently learn the ability to skate, skis, skates, or they know how to swim well, although no one has taught them this;
Instead of quietly reading a book or sitting at a computer, it pulls the street into motion;
such children find themselves at an early age sportkumirov, as a rule, it is in this sport that he moves.
Five signs of the literary gift
Like all other gifts, literary, it also manifests itself as a child:
a child can develop a plot well, add his own fantasies, but they will correspond to the topic;
in a quiet environment it can often be found behind the writing of stories or tales of his own work;
when he talks about something, he always does it in a coherent way, adheres to the plot, the descriptions can be very sensual and vivid;
created by his imagination characters, he gives life to his stories;
very well knows how to choose the right words, which brightly emotionally express the situation.
Six signs of artistic abilities
This is difficult to pass, artistic ability is very noticeable:
such children instead of verbose begin to pour their words and emotions on paper or on material for modeling, carving, etc .;
often can express his opinion on the work of a famous artist;
with enthusiasm and takes seriously all the productions. Very often they go into themselves, watching the landscapes that interest their subjects or pictures;
if a child draws a plot, then he in small things displays everything he sees, does not stop at drawing only one person, tries to repulse his entire view in the drawing;
such children are drawn to create something useful and beautiful, for example, crafts for the home;
All their free time these children are devoted to drawing, stucco, handicrafts and other kinds of art.
Now, knowing how to correctly assess the talents of your child, reflect in the form of balls from 2 to 5, those or other talents that you noticed the child's child. You need to evaluate each of the characteristics separately in the group, then add the amount of balls. The amount received should be divided by the number of characteristics in the group (5, 6, 7, 8 or 9). Evaluation should be done with the help of the axis-coordinate chart. On the horizontal, set the number of talents in the group, in this test, there are 8 of them. And the vertical axis is scores from 2 to 5, and so for each talent, when the lines of the projections intersect, put the dots, and then connect them to the chart.
Graph of the evaluation of the gift
Such a schedule will help you correctly assess the various deviations of the child, which in turn will help him choose more interesting hobbies.