Gifted Children:
by Winner, Ellen
Published by : Basic Books (New York ) Physical details: xi, 449 p. ill. ; 25 cm. ISBN:0465017592 (paper. Year: 1996| Item type | Current location | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode |
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| 155.422 Mur Psychology of babies | 155.4228 Eye Mother-Infant Bonding | 155.424 Ges Child from five to ten | 155.455 Win Gifted Children: | 155.5 You Your Adolescent: emotional, behavioral & cognitive development | 155.6 Lus Emotional phases of a woman's life | 155.6 Nor Women who love too much : |
Contents:
1. Nine Myths About Giftedness
2. Globally Gifted: The Children Behind the Myth
3. Unevenly Gifted, Even Learning Disabled
4. Artistic and Musical Children
5. The IQ Myth
6. The Biology of Giftedness
7. Giftedness and the Family
8. So Different from Others: The Emotional Life of the Gifted Child
9. Schools: How They Fail, How They Could Help
10. What Happens to Gifted Children When They Grow Up?
11. Sorting Myth from Reality
Gifted children - children years ahead of their peers - have long inspired fascination, envy, fear, and rejection. Misconceptions about children with special abilities abound. In this fascinating book, Ellen Winner uncovers and explores nine myths about giftedness, and shows us what these children are really like. Using vivid case studies, Winner paints a complex picture of the gifted child. Here we meet David, a three-year-old who learned to read in two weeks; KyLee, a five-year-old who mastered on his own all of the math concepts expected by the end of elementary school; and Nadia, an autistic and retarded "savant" who nevertheless could draw like a Renaissance master
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