Special Populations in Gifted Education: Working with Diverse Gifted Learners

This unique book acknowledges and illuminates the reality that gifted students are from all backgrounds and that their talents transcend cultural, ethnic, and linguistic ties, handicapping condition, sexual orientation, poverty, and geography. Special Populations in Gifted Education: Working with Diverse Gifted Learners reflects today's student demographics and serves as a valuable resource tool to teachers and administrators who choose to promote access, equity, and excellence to the special students they serve. This book is further intended to provide a desperately needed update reflecting the modern view of who the special populations are in gifted education. Today's gifted students include a complex cross-section of students Topics include any combination of the following areas of interest: characteristics, curriculum, instruction, assessment and evaluation, nurturing, and meeting their social, emotional, academic, and cognitive needs. School administrators, teachers, special education providers.