GoodtoKnow resident expert and Educational Psychologist Dr Patricia Britto, explains how to spot a gifted child, and what ...

Many gifted children are natural learners who show some of the following characteristics: The ability to learn quickly and efficiently — to pick up ideas and skills effortlessly ...

But even among students with high scores on math and reading assessments, black children are severely underrepresented in gifted programs; a high-achieving white student is twice as likely as an ...

A researcher outlines what schools need to do to provide better support for Hispanic bilingual kids and their parents.

Children who learn basic survival instincts and know that they have to say certain things to get food, or to keep their parents from getting in trouble, could also be gifted.

Characteristics of Gifted Children. There are a range of traits exhibited by extraordinarily gifted students that set them apart from other children. The 10 traits of intelligent students include: ...

Recently, I ran across a great article about gifted children that I wanted to share on Facebook. As the mother of a gifted son, every word rang true — from the over-excitability, asynchronous ...

Hopefully we’ve all had that experience of reading a book that powerfully “spoke” to us, a book whose characters we could relate to, and whose struggles and triumphs we identified with.

Psychologist Ellen Winner knows intimately the children every parent would like to have — the gifted. But her study of them and conclusions are likely to upset many parents whose children hav… ...

However, many gifted children share some common characteristics, and knowing these is a good place to start. Intelligence Essential Reads What DNA Can—and Can't—Tell Us About Intelligence ...