She is 17, a psychologist and the first minor to enter Harvard in 100 years – 08/02/2019

At 13, Dafne Almazán became the youngest psychologist in the world. Today at 17 years old is the youngest Mexican to enter Harvard University and the first child under 18 to enroll in this facility in 100 years.

Dafne is a talented. At 6, he already knew how to read and write. At age 10, he had completed high school and at 13, he had a degree in psychology. She is one of the nearly one million children who have this kind of talent in this country.

The World Health Organization (WHO) defines a gifted person as a person whose intellectual coefficient (IC) is greater than 130 points in certain psychometric tests validated scientifically and statistically. "These are children like any other, but with a higher IC than the rest of the population," says Dr. Asdrúbal Almazán, director of Talent Care Center (Cedat) and father of Dafne.

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However, Dafne believes that "gifted children in Mexico are stereotyped, misdiagnosed and misunderstood". The young psychologist says that people believe that these children spend a lot of time in jail or that they are a copy of Einstein. "I studied but I also played, I learned to play instruments, I walked my dogs," he says.

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Besides school, he loves the artistic part. "I learn piano, violin, guitar, singing and theater". He also studies Chinese and practices taekwondo and kempo.

Dafne explains that a lot of boys are misdiagnosed with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) but in reality "they are simply smarter". According to Cedat data, 93% of gifted children are confused with a misdiagnosis of ADHD, resulting in inadequate management and therefore loss of capacity.

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But Daphne was lucky enough to be born into a family where her brothers are like her too. In fact, his older brother, Andrew, and his father opened Cedat, a place where they work with an educational model developed by him, who was also the youngest psychologist in the world.

It is the Nouménica theory, a psychopedagogical model based on the maintenance of geniuses in their childhood environment, but with lessons according to their intelligence.

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This raises the need to badist mind and behavior professionals also overcapacity because it is they who can badist and follow these children, unlike what happens in conventional schools. Dafne, for example, has never set foot in a clbadroom of a conventional school because basic education was putting it online. However, Cedat's children now have the opportunity to learn in an environment where they are understood and helped.

But Daphne has also followed the pattern of "radical acceleration," which involves letting the child learn without constraint.

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In this institution, Cedat, more than 300 children, like Dafne, are intellectually gifted, although they have already attended more than 4,000 children. It gives not only courses but also extracurricular artistic and sports activities. Even Dafne taught at the Center and says that this has influenced the choice of the Master's program that will begin at Harvard. "You always think that math is difficult, but it's something that is in our lives and strategies are needed to teach it and that kids may be interested," he says.

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The profile of gifted children

To identify this type of children, there is a profile of the gifted, created by Andrew Almazán. It details some characteristics of these children, among which they stand out hyperactivity, rapid learning, distraction, use of words such as those used by the elderly and continuous arming of objects or structures, among others. According to Dr. Asdrúbal Almazán, the important thing is to detect and guide them to avoid losing their abilities.

For the moment, Dafne is a source of pride, not only for her father, but also for Cedat. She hopes to continue to grow professionally "in order to help the children, not to suffer and see that they can also achieve many things".

Source: The Vanguardia

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