The speech given at the awards ceremony of the Midwest Talent Search Project, addresses gifted and talented students about issues in their education. The speaker urges students to be assertive in fighting curricular inflexibility and to understand the complementary functions of acceleration enrichment. He discusses the benefits of summer courses…

This textbook focuses on the development and education of talented children and adults. Part 1 considers who the gifted and talented are, in terms of personality aspects, intellectual competence, and specific talent in a domain. It presents a pyramidal framework of talent based on looking at adult talent and its precursors in childhood behavior.…

This annotated bibliography of publications and documents on special education services lists items available from government sources in Edmonton, Alberta (Canada). Section I lists five publications on the topics of policy, procedures, legislation, student rights, and program standards. Section II lists 40 resources focusing primarily on…

Twenty-one research articles originally published in the "Australasian Journal of Gifted Education" over the past decade are collected in this book and address aspects of gifted education including pedagogy and curriculum, policy and practice, social and emotional needs, school and family, neuropsychology and cognition, and special…