Neurodiversity and Supporting the Autistic-Gifted Child and Adolescent

Hanna David*, Eva Gyarmathy

*Corresponding author for this work

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Abstract

Research data confirms that high intellectual potential is associated with very different developmental profiles. One of these has common features with autism spectrum disorders (Boschi et al., Front. Psychol. 7:1605, 2016). The co-occurrence of giftedness and autism is the prototype of what can be described as the oddly behaving gifted individual. Extraordinariness is mostly treated as a disorder by the normality-expecting community until it manifests itself in outstanding performance. For this reason, autistic gifted people have to cope with even greater social-emotional challenges than are normally experienced.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationSpringer Briefs in Education
PublisherSpringer Science and Business Media B.V.
Pages71-87
Number of pages17
DOIs
StatePublished - 2023

Publication series

NameSpringer Briefs in Education
ISSN (Print)2211-1921
ISSN (Electronic)2211-193X

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