Identification

• ASSD : Gifted Education in the Early and Middle Years
  Identification and education of gifted students.
  

• Bright Child/Gifted Learner
  A chart showing the basic differences between a bright child and a gifted learner- a useful tool when discussing the definition of gifted.
  

• Characteristics and Behaviors of the Gifted
  Identification, learning characteristics, and creative characteristics of the gifted.
  

• Dual Exceptionalities ERIC Digest E574
  Lists intended to assist parents and teachers in recognizing intellectual giftedness in the presence of a disability: gifted students with visual impairments, physical disabilities, hearing impairments,learning disabilities. Other lists are intended to help distinguish between gifted students who are bored and students who have an attention deficit hyperactivity disorder.
  

• Gifted and Talented Students
  Identification checklist for teachers
  

• Howard Gardner's Seven Types of Intelligence
  Psychologist Howard Gardner identified seven distinct types of intelligence. They are listed with respect to gifted or talented children.
  

• Identification in Visual Arts
  Important issues and practices relative to identification of gifted and talented students in the visual arts are introduced in this paper.
  

• Identifying and Serving Recent Immigrant Children Who Are Gifted
  Factors which affect the gifted immigrant student.
  

• IQ Tests
  A browser that contains many sites related to IQ and testing.
  

• Mind-Works
  Provides information on identifying and working with giftedness, dual exceptionality, learning disabilities, attention deficit disorder, and different learning styles. Boston Metro-west area.
  

• Mis-Diagnosis and Dual Diagnosis of Gifted Children
  Many of our brightest and most creative minds are not only going unrecognized, but they also are often given diagnoses that indicate pathology. Includes a list of the common Mis-Diagnoses of gifted youth.
  

• Misdiagnosis of the Gifted
  Gifted individuals face many challenges. One of them may be in getting correctly identified by psychotherapists and others as gifted.
  

• The gifted and the extraordinary
  A column by Martin E.P. Seligman, PhD.
  

• We Always Knew He was Bright...
  Explains the traits of a profoundly gifted child.
  

• Who Are the Gifted?
  This information about giftedness from the National Association for Gifted Children includes: 'Who Are the Gifted?,' 'Characteristics of Various Areas of Giftedness,' and 'Why Should Gifted Education Be Supported?'