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Pleasure or Pain in the Gifted Child's Family.
Barbe, Walter – G/C/T, 1978
The article offers advice to parents and teachers of gifted children on how to respond to their giftedness in such a way as to promote the child's acceptance and proper utilization of the gift. (DLS)
Descriptors: Child Development, Definitions, Gifted, Parent Influence
Fast Talkers: Verbally Precocious Youth Present Challenges for Parents and Teachers.
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Bromfield, Richard – Gifted Child Today Magazine, 1994
This article discusses both the advantages and challenges facing children who are verbally gifted and their parents and teachers. (DB)
Descriptors: Child Rearing, Children, Communication Skills, Early Childhood Education
The Johns Hopkins Program for Verbally Gifted Youth.
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Durden, William – Roeper Review, 1980
Johns Hopkins Program for Verbally Gifted Youth (PVGY) is designed for junior high school students and offers courses in writing skills, Latin and Greek in current use, and beginning German. Students are selected in the 12 to 14 age range. (PHR)
Descriptors: Enrichment Activities, German, Gifted, Greek
The Talent-Search Concept: An Identification Strateqy for the Intellectually Gifted.
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George, William C. – Journal of Special Education, 1979
Using the empirically based evidence that has resulted from the previous five Talent Searches of the Study of Mathematically Precocious Youth, the article develops the rationale and success behind the talent-search concept as a useful strategy for identifying the intellectually gifted. (Author)
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Conceptual Schemes, Costs, Evaluation Methods
Cognitive Profiles of Verbally and Mathematically Precocious Students: Implications for Identification of the Gifted.
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Benbow, Camilla Persson; Minor, Lola L. – Gifted Child Quarterly, 1990
When a battery of tests commonly associated with intelligence was administered to 144 13 year olds identified as extremely precocious, the verbally precocious students scored higher on verbal and general knowledge types of tests, and mathematically precocious students scored higher on tests of nonverbal reasoning, spatial ability, and memory.…
Descriptors: Ability Identification, Cognitive Development, Gifted, Intelligence Tests
Developing Verbal Talent: Ideas and Strategies for Teachers of Elementary and Middle School Students.
VanTassel-Baska, Joyce, Ed.; Johnson, Dana T., Ed.; Boyce, Linda Neal, Ed. – 1996
This book provides ideas and strategies for developing verbal talents in elementary and middle school students. Chapters include: (1) "The Process of Talent Development" (Joyce VanTassel-Baska); (2) "Talent Identification and Development in the Language Arts" (A. Harry Passow); (3) "Reading, Writing, and the Construction of Meaning" (Nancy Nelson…
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Elementary Secondary Education, Gifted, Interdisciplinary Approach
Aspects of Personality and Peer Relations of Extremely Talented Adolescents.
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Dauber, Susan L.; Benbow, Camilla Persson – Gifted Child Quarterly, 1990
When 340 extremely mathematically or verbally talented 13 year olds were compared to 111 modestly gifted students, no differences were found in group activity participation or personality traits. In their ratings of peer perceptions, the modestly gifted exceeded the extremely gifted in being considered athletic and popular and in social standing.…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Comparative Analysis, Gifted, Junior High Schools
A Special Abilities Art Program.
Raby, Orrene – School Art, 1988
An art program for talented and gifted seventh and eighth grade students is described, focusing on student selection, teaching techniques, funding, and evaluation. Included are a screening test for talented art students and a form to aid students in verbalizing about their art projects. (JDD)
Descriptors: Ability Identification, Admission Criteria, Art Education, Creative Art
Javits 7+ Gifted and Talented Program: Kindergarten Assessment Model. Revised.
Community School District 18, Brooklyn, NY. – 1991
This packet contains a set of assessment activities to identify gifted and talented children at the kindergarten level, based on Howard Gardner's theory of multiple intelligences. The six assessments measure linguistic, logical-mathematical, spatial, musical, bodily-kinesthetic, and interpersonal/intrapersonal intelligence. For each assessment,…
Descriptors: Ability Identification, Evaluation Methods, Gifted, Intelligence