Abstract

SILVA, Sarah Carolina Furucho  and  RANGNI, Rosemeire de Araújo. INDICATORS OF HIGH ABILITIES/GIFTEDNESS IN STUDENT WITH ASPERGER SYNDROME: A CASE STUDY. Eccos Rev. Cient. [online]. 2019, n.51, e8334.  Epub Jan 29, 2024. ISSN 1983-9278.  https://doi.org/10.5585/eccos.n51.8334.

People with disabilities, global developmental disorders and high abilities/ giftedness are the target audience of Special Education supported by Brazilian legislation. These people need complementary and supplementary services to develop their potentialities, including those with twice exceptionality, that is, high abilities/giftedness, associated with other specificity. With this, the general objective of the research was to verify High Abilities/Giftedness indicators in a student diagnosed with Asperger Syndrome and as a specific objective it was verified that the Art teacher of the student, as well as his father and the student, recognized his artistic potential. This way, the research was characterized as a Case Study, using three instruments to identify indicators of High Abilities/Giftedness. The answers obtained by the instruments applied to the three participants, Art teacher, student and his father, demonstrated convergent for indicators of high skills/giftedness.

Keywords : Special Education; High Abilities/Giftedness; Asperger’s syndrome; Twice Exceptionality; Identification..

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