The Synaesthete: A New Type of “Gifted Student” and How to Teach Them

This paper proposes a new category of gifted student: the synaesthetic child. I outline how a teacher may identify such students and what their special needs are. The synaesthetic child comprises their own category of “learning diversity”. I outline a philosophy of education to fully realize the potential of synaesthetes and detail laws and characteristics pertaining to synaesthetes and their education. These include the observations that synaesthetes learn better in the mode of their synaesthesia; that they are precocious in areas related to their synaesthesia and that their future career choice tends to be associated with their synaesthesia.