The Discovery of Synesthesia in Childhood

Children with synesthesia often become aware of their unusual perceptions when they find out that not everyone has such sensory experience. How do children become aware of their synesthesia and how can educators facilitate and help them in this process? Self-reports of synesthetes, cognitive theories of development, and a number of specific art education projects on synesthesia in primary schools are discussed in this article and some implications for school education systems are drawn