Who is the gifted girl who became the first child to study at Harvard

February 12, 2019

Dafne Almazán is Mexican and has a coefficient higher than 130 points, like his father and his brother. He chose to study a masters degree in mathematics at Harvard.

Dafne Almazán received a psychologist at the age of 13 and became the youngest in the world. Currently, youJanuary 17 and is the youngest Mexican woman to enter at Harvard University and the first under 18 to enroll in 100 years.

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

The World Health Organization (WHO) defines a talented person with an intellectual coefficient (IC) greater than 130 points in certain psychometric tests validated scientifically and statistically.

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Asdrúbal Almazán, director of Talent Care Center (Cedat) and father He said: "These are children like any other, only with a much higher IC than the rest of the population"

However, Dafne believes that "Gifted children in Mexico are stereotyped, misdiagnosed and misunderstood"The young psychologist said that people thought that these children were spending a lot of time in jail or that they were a copy of Einstein." I studied but I also played; I learned to play instruments, I walked my dogs, "he remembers.

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

The youngest, said that many children are misdiagnosed with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) but that in reality they are simply smarter.

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Cedat data indicate that the 93% of gifted children are confused and misdiagnosed with ADHDwhich leads to inadequate management and therefore the loss of their abilities.

His older brother, Andrew, and his father opened Cedat, a place where they work with an adapted educational model. At the time, he was the youngest psychologist in the world.

Dafne has never attended a conventional schoolsince basic education was online. However, Cedat's children have the opportunity to learn in an environment where they are understood and helped.

In addition, he followed the model of "radical acceleration", which involves letting the child learn without constraint. Wing Institution to grant a little over 300 children like Dafne, they are intellectually talented, even if they have attended more than 4000. There are school and extracurricular clbades such as artistic and sports activities.

Dafne taught at the center, and claimed that this influenced in the election of masters who will initiate at Harvard. "We still think that math is difficult, but it's something that is in our life and strategies are needed to teach it and that kids may be interested"He said.