Processing Speed

Strategies to assist students who might present lower processing speed scores.

Gifted students commonly comprehend and process information rather quickly. They are able to cognitively assimilate, digest and incorporate information at a quicker pace than most non-gifted students. However, some gifted children do achieve lower processing speed scores. Some gifted students also achieve lower working memory scores as well? This may present a problem in a self-contained gifted classroom. On the one hand, these students are hesitant to participate fully in front of their peers; on the other hand, and more importantly, they might perceive this as not being 'intelligent or gifted enough' as their peers. This erroneous self-perception may then feed into a detrimental 'self-talk' cycle of negativity and poor productivity.