Leta Stetter Hollingworth, a pioneer of gifted education in America, embodies the dichotomy between the ideals of progressive education and the measurement movement prevalent at the beginning of this century, the movement most closely associated with the identification of gifted and talented students. The Speyer School experiment illustrated how the measurement paradigm could dominate a very de...

144 Words) Students with exceptional academic potential who come from low-income families are frequently not identified for and consequently are underrepresented in gifted and talented programs. Because of this, new means of identifying such children must be developed. This paper presents the findings of exploratory and confirmatory factor analyses conducted on the HOPE Scale, a 13-item teacher...

Objectives: Sensory integration training plays a crucial role on the attention span and motor skills of students with Down syndrome. The present research aimed to investigate the effect of sensory integration training on the attention span and motor skills of students with Down syndrome.  Methods: This was a quasi-experimental research with a pretest, posttest design and control group. Partici...

Reading comprehension growth trajectories from third to seventh grade were estimated for 99,919 students on a state reading comprehension assessment. We examined whether differences between students in general education (GE) and groups of students identified as exceptional learners were best characterized as stable, widening, or narrowing. The groups included students with disabilities (SWD) fr...

Gifted children with learning disabilities are known as twice-exceptional. Both the identification and classification of twice-exceptional a matter for practical ingenuity, these tend to fall upon extremes scale, resulting in either child both obvious giftedness disability or where effectively masks disability. The latter results that tests average surface-level assessments. In this article, ne...