Head Size at One Year as a Predictor of Four-Year IQ - Nelson - 2008 - Developmental Medicine & Child Neurology. Tokuhama. Teaching and Learning.
Vulnerabilities of highly gifted children. Roedell, W. Roeper Review Vol. 6, No. 3, pp. 127-130 1984 This article by Wendy Roedell points out that although good social adjustment, emotional maturity, and healthy self-concepts are realized by many intellectually gifted children, this same group of children is uniquely vulnerable to a variety of adjustment difficulties. Problems of uneven development, perfectionism, adult expectations, intense sensitivity, self-definition, alienation, inappropriate environments and role conflict are explored. Roedell concludes that the degree of success at these adjustments depends to a great extent on environmental support.
This article examines the unique vulnerabilities of children with extraordinarily advanced intellectual skills, and highlights the differences between highly gifted and moderately gifted children. Good social adjustment, emotional maturity, and healthy self-concepts characterize the experience of many intellectually gifted children. Awareness, however, is not enough. Bright and Gifted Children: How to Tell, What to Do. Many parents would like to believe they are raising a budding Einstein but wonder if their child is bright rather than gifted.
Such analysis makes sense as only about 2% of the population is gifted. Identifying the gifted child is important as they will need challenges beyond the regular classroom to develop to their full potential. Gifted children benefit from being with their peers and from participating in a differentiated curriculum. What you should know: When you compare traits of a bright child and a gifted child you will see the gifted child is overall a more intense, active and creative individual. For example, a bright child will have good ideas and find classroom work easy to complete. However, the gifted child will actually come up with their own projects, beyond the classroom and will have original and abstract ideas. Often the gifted child is their own worst enemy because they are more self-critical than a bright child. What you can do: Prodigies in the News. 10 Famous Child Prodigies.
Are gifted children getting lost in the shuffle? 30-year study reveals clues to the exceptional child's journey. (Phys.org) —Gifted children are likely to be the next generation's innovators and leaders—yet the exceptionally smart are often invisible in the classroom, lacking the curricula, teacher input and external motivation to reach full potential. This conclusion comes as the result of the largest scientific study of the profoundly gifted to date, a 30-year study conducted by researchers at Vanderbilt University's Peabody College of education and human development. David Lubinski, professor of psychology and human development at Peabody, led the study, which tracked 300 gifted children from age 13 until age 38, logging their accomplishments in academia, business, culture, health care, science and technology. The results were recently published in a paper titled "Who Rises to the Top?
Early Indicators," in Psychological Science. Peabody collaborators on the study were Camilla P. Of the 320 participants, 203 went on to earn master's degrees and above.