Asian Journal- The Filipino-American Community Newspaper

JONATHAN Malabanan, Angela and Mikaela Guerrero were all reading by the age of one. Jonathan went to college at age 10. Angela was doing sixth grade math at the age of four, while Mikaela played 50 musical pieces on the piano from memory when she was just 5.

Highly gifted children, these Filipino-American kids belong to the world’s top one percent level in general intelligence ability.

Jonathan and Angela both attended The Mirman School for the Gifted in LA, one of a handful of private schools in America for the highly gifted (IQ of 145 or above).

The average IQ of the general population is between 90-100. Individuals whose IQs fall between 145 and 160 are typically considered to be highly gifted whereas individuals whose IQs range from 160 to 180 are considered to be exceptionally gifted. Based on Stanford Binet LM tests, Jonathan and Angela are highly gifted while Mikaela is exceptionally gifted.

Angela is 15 and is a third-year undergraduate student (BS Chemistry Minor Music) at Cal State LA (Early Entrance Program for the Highly Gifted). Prior to enrolling at CSULA, she was a student of Gretchen Whitney High School (Grade 7 to 9) where she had a consistent unweighted 4.0 grade point average (GPA).

Her IQ was formally assessed by Dr. Sheila Vaughan of the Mirman School when she was only 4 years old and was found to be a highly gifted child based on a Stanford Binet LM Test. As a child, she attended the Mirman School in Bel Air.

Angela mastered her ABCs at 18 months. At two, Angela completely amazed a doctor who saw her reading the text on a cereal box.

At 3, she surprised her parents, Fe and Alvin Guerrero, when she read an entire book. Dr. Valerie Maxwell of the Structure of Intellect Counseling and Testing Center assessed Angela at that time for gifted abilities using a variety of ecologically valid measures. Dr. Maxwell said that Angela is a classically academically gifted child and requires an environment of intellectual challenge and high stimulation.

Angela was doing sixth grade mathematics at four years of age. She could also transpose a musical piece in different keys at that age.

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Still_in_Limbo_Parents   |68.61.157.xxx |2009-10-30 20:19:00 Thanks for the articles! We're currently trying to weigh the pros and cons in having our pre-teen soon skip high-school, straight to college. He's been doing upper-undergraduate and graduate-level Math very well, and we believe that he's intellectually capable of handling college-level work. However, we're not sure if this will be the right decision socially/emotionally especially when he may be weathering the "hormone-rage" puberty period in a year or 2..... Still_in_Limbo_Parents Reply | Quote 0   0

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