It is normal to be different, is the tenor of HerausForderung e. V. Inclusion means participation and understanding for ALL children.
Some children are particularly intelligent, highly sensitive and/or highly reactive.
The association is committed to ensuring that these children and young people embrace their talents, discover and develop their potential and are accepted and taken into account with their particularities and difficulties.
10% of children and young people are cognitively gifted to an above-average degree, and around 2% of them are highly gifted.
They are significantly ahead of their peers in language comprehension and vocabulary, working memory, visual-spatial imagination, logical understanding and processing speed.
Around 60,000 children and young people in NRW are gifted.
Some of the children and young people affected manage to translate their enormous cognitive potential into academic achievement – but by no means all of them.
Children and young people whose academic performance falls well short of what would be expected based on their far above-average potential are referred to as underachievers.
In short, underachievers are highly gifted underachievers.
HerausForderung e. V. is all about equal opportunities and education.
The association supports talented children and young people who fall through the cracks of the education system.
Dr. Stefanie Marzian and her colleague Daniela Kasche founded the association HerausForderung e. V. themselves.
What can I do if my child is particularly intelligent, feels differently to most other children and therefore needs more support in everyday life?
The association’s premises are the AbenteuerBus, a converted mobile home that is the association’s office, advice room, games meeting point and information stand all in one.
This also makes it possible to provide outreach help.
The association also offers various workshops and many themed activities for children, young people and their families.
The Karl Bröcker Foundation supports the project financially.
www.herausforderung-angenommen.de
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