Building Social Skills in Gifted Youths?

Posted by Cliff on Monday March 8, 2004 @02:43PM from the creating-smart-extroverts dept.

UNOStudent asks: "I'm currently a Biotech undergrad at the University of Nebraska-Omaha and have spent the past several semesters mentoring gifted youngsters and have been presented with a challenge this semester. My student is unbelievably smart, however has very limited social skills, is unable to cooperate with peers, doesn't understand why they make fun of his uncombed hair, etc. Since many of us may have grown up in a similar circumstance, I'm looking for suggestions from my fellow geeks on ideas for how to challenge him mentally, while building essential social skills." How would you build social skills in someone more concerned with math, science and computers?

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Re:One word - Karate by daveashcroft · 2004-03-09 00:49 · Score: 0, Offtopic

If i only had not wasted my modpoints.....this would definately be +Funny
Re:One word - Karate by sunking2 · 2004-03-09 02:25 · Score: 0, Offtopic

I'm sure he already has the 'whacks off' part mastered.