Gifted and talented children are those identified by professionally qualified persons who by virtue of their outstanding abilities are capable of high performance. Children capable of high performance include those with demonstrated achievement and/or potential ability in any of the following areas, singly or in combination: general intellectual ability, specific academic aptitude, creative or productive thinking, leadership ability, visual or performing arts, psychomotor ability. For discussion of definitions, see Giftedness and the Gifted, produced by the ERIC Clearinghouse on Disabilities and Gifted Education.
Study of mathematically precocious youth: 50-year longitudinal study (2002-2004)
Camilla Benbow, Ph.D., and David Lubinski, Ph.D., Principal Investigators
Gifted Education, ERIC Clearinghouse on Disabilities and Gifted Education