The importance of programs that develop the thinking skills of students has been emphasized by many educational researchers. However, the majority of these studies have focused on developing these skills of gifted students and of students in public schools. Few have focused on developing and strengthening such skills in students with learning…

This study explores how a historical genius with learning disabilities (LD) used his giftedness to surmount his disabilities. This study compared biographical data of a historical genius with LD to geniuses without LD using the posthumous diagnostic methodology. Niels Bohr, J. Robert Oppenheimer, and Enrico Fermi were selected for investigation.…

Fifty intermediate level learning disabilities students participated in the Purdue Creative Thinking Program. Ss in the LD experimental group made significantly greater scores than LD control Ss in divergent thinking as measured by the verbal and figural subtests of the Torrance Tests of Creative Thinking. (Author/CL)