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  • Meeting the individualized needs of children with advanced abilities, regardless of gender, remains a challenge for educators today despite refined identification techniques and abundant data on effective educational interventions. Research shows girls to be significantly disadvantaged by both the identification procedures for giftedness in many schools and a profile of psychosocial characteristics putting them at risk for high level achievement by middle school ages. Few studies have explored the psychosocial development of young gifted girls to illuminate factors potentially impacting their educational experience and ultimately influencing the staggering discrepancies between numbers of eminent females and males. The purpose of this study was to provide descriptive foundational information on the psychosocial development of five highly gifted young girls, Stanford-Binet L-M IQ's from 140 to 154, aged three to five. The focus of the study was the girls' observed intense sensitivities and atypical interpersonal understanding. Dabrowski's (1964) theory of emotional development assisted observation of the intense sensitivities. Selman's (1980) developmental theory of interpersonal reasoning facilitated understanding of the interpersonal organization of each child. Two dimensions of social development, Conceptions of Persons and Conceptions of Close Friendship, were explored within the contexts of home and school. A naturalistic research design was used for this study due to its inherent sensitivity to people in context, vital for a study of young children. Methodology included participant and passive observation of the children in their classrooms over a two year time period, parent interviews, and reflective clinical interviews of the children. A multiple case study replication design was used. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2016 APA, all rights reserved)

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