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Gifted Kids

IQ Testing and Gifted Education

Education
Gifted Kids With Learning Problems

David Palmer Ph.D. on December 26, 2011

Children identified as having a learning disability are otherwise capable students who are not working up to their potential because of an underlying processing problem. Many gifted students fit this pattern.

Children identified as having a learning disability are otherwise capable students who are not working up to their potential because of an underlying processing problem. Many gifted students fit this pattern.

Intelligence
Private Testing for Gifted Kids... If and When?

David Palmer Ph.D. on August 2, 2011

Individually administered comprehensive IQ tests like the most recent editions of the Wechsler Intelligence Scale (WISC IV) or the Stanford Binet (SB V) are considered more reliable and valid, and offer parents and teachers more information, than the group IQ tests often given in the schools.

Individually administered comprehensive IQ tests like the most recent editions of the Wechsler Intelligence Scale (WISC IV) or the Stanford Binet (SB V) are considered more reliable and valid, and offer parents and teachers more information, than the group IQ tests often given in the schools.