Challenging Gifted Children and the Phenomenon of AD/HD: A Qualitative Study of Teachers’ and Parents’ Perceptions in a Saudi Arabian Primary School
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Abstract
This study overviews the circumstances surrounding gifted children who manifest challenging behaviours at school, and where the explanatory use of the diagnostic descriptor, AD/HD, is invoked. Specifically, this qualitative research study in Saudi Arabia investigated the phenomenological and diagnostic confusion between giftedness and AD/HD. Three mainstream regular classroom teachers, one specialist teacher of gifted children, and the parents of three gifted children were interviewed. All participants’ perceptions focused on the behavioural dimensions of teacher-nominated gifted children at school and at home. In general, the results indicate that diagnostic confusions between giftedness and AD/HD were manifest, and teachers’ and parents’ perspectives differed. Some unanticipated and interesting data also emerged from the research. In discussion of the results, a number of themes relating to the misidentification of gifted children are discussed. Some educational implications for future research directions are offered.
Keywords
featured, gifted, jeddah, study, awarenessCitation
Alamiri, F., & Faulkner, M. (). Challenging Gifted Children and the Phenomenon of AD/HD: A Qualitative Study of Teachers’ and Parents’ Perceptions in a Saudi Arabian Primary School. Australasian Journal of Gifted Education, 19(1), 6-15.
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