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Dinesh Kumar, Lovely Professional University            Unit 20: Identification, Causes, Problems of Gifted Children


               Unit 20: Identification, Causes, Problems of Gifted                                   Notes
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            CONTENTS
            Objectives
            Introduction
            20.1 Identification of Gifted Children
            20.2 Causes
            20.3 Problems of Gifted Children
            20.4 Summary
            20.5 Keywords
            20.6 Review Questions
            20.7 Further Readings


            Objectives
            The objectives of this unit can be summarized as below:
            •   to know about the identification of gifted children.
            •   to describe about the causes of gifted children.
            •   to know about causes and factors for the problem of gifted children.
            Introduction

            Gifted children have been defined as those who by nature of outstanding abilities are capable of high
            performance. The term 'outstanding abilities' refers to general intellectual ability, specific academic
            aptitude, leadership ability, ability in the visual or performing arts, creative thanking or athletic
            ability. In this unit we will discuss about identification, causes and problems o gifted children.
            20.1 Identification of Gifted Children

            The identification of giftred children had been discussed in two aspects:
            (1) need of identification and (2) Basis of identifying gifted children.
            20.1.1 Need of Indentification of Gifted Children
            Sammual A Krik has rightly stated that several gifted children remain undeveloped and their
            potentialities are not propery utilized by the society because they have not been identified in schools.
            There is no provision for them for special education. They are taught along normal children in schools.
            The curriculum has been designed in view of needs of average students. There is need to identify
            such children. Two methods are commonly used.
            1.  Informal method or observation method is used by teachers and parents, and
            2.  Formal or Testing method is used by teachers guides and councelligence tests are employed
                for this purpose.




                    In democracy gifted children are asset to the nation as well as to society.






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