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High Intellectual Potential Screening Questionnaire
This questionnaire explores information that may be useful when considering possible High Intellectual Potential (HIP) / intellectual giftedness in a child or teenager. It looks at development, sensitivity, curiosity, school experience, relationships and overall functioning.
How should you answer? Copy the questions into a document or e-mail and answer underneath each one. To keep the analysis clear and precise, try to remain relatively concise, around four Word pages at most, while giving more detail when something seems important.
Concrete examples are especially useful. A nuanced answer is often more informative than a simple “yes” or “no”.
Your answers are personally analyzed by Luc MARTRENCHAR, a clinical psychologist specializing in High Potential assessment.
General information and feeling different from peers
0) How old is your child / teenager? What is their first name?
1) Do you feel that your child or teenager is different from other children or teenagers / out of step with their peers? In what way?
Sensitivity, empathy and personality
2) Would you describe your child as very sensitive (emotionally and/or through certain senses), or even extremely sensitive and easily overwhelmed by emotions?
3) In particular, is your child sensitive to injustice?
4) Is your child empathic? In what way / in which situations / with which people (people close to them, strangers)?
5) Would you describe your child as a perfectionist?
Curiosity, thinking and creativity
6) Would you describe your child as curious? Do they become bored easily?
7) Does your child ask a great many questions about different subjects? Do they ask themselves or other people questions about the meaning of life or death, for example?
8) Do they have difficulty accepting authority, from a parent or teacher for example? Are they independent-minded?
9) Is your child creative, not only artistically but also in their ability to have original ideas or think outside the box?
School and development
10) How is school going? Do they find some things particularly easy? If so, which? Do they have difficulties? If so, which?
11) Have they experienced difficulties outside school?
12) Did they learn to speak, read or count at an unusually early age?
13) Do they have a good memory? Please feel free to give an example.
Self-esteem, relationships and family context
14) Would you say they have good or poor self-esteem?
15) Are they comfortable with people who are older than they are? Do they seek out their company?
16) Do any other members of the family have High Intellectual Potential / intellectual giftedness?
Finished?
Read through your answers once more to make sure they describe your child’s functioning as accurately as possible. There is no need to try to make the answers fit a particular profile.
This questionnaire does not by itself confirm High Intellectual Potential. Psychometric confirmation requires an age-appropriate intelligence test, particularly the WISC-V or WPPSI-IV.
