One of the most challenging types of student is the gifted or talented child. The gifted child is extremely bright; quickly grasping ideas and concepts you are teaching and making interpretations or extrapolations that you may not even have considered. Gifted children may also have a creativity that shows itself in original thinking or artistic creations. Students who are gifted or talented are sometimes overlooked when educators talk about students with special needs. The empirical …showed first 75 words of 598 total…

…showed last 75 words of 598 total…content more quickly than others should not present a problem when grouped with older students, some of whom may be on the same social or emotional level. After studying both of these articles I feel that gifted and talented students have special needs. I think that all schools should be able to offer programs for gifted children. I think that this is necessary to bring out the absolute best in every child, especially gifted children.