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  • Nine-year-old Stephen reads orchestral scores as he hums the music aloud in perfect tune. Reading musical scores is one of Stephens favorite activities, vying only with reading college-level computer programming manuals. At an age when most children are concentrating on fourth-grade arithmetic, Stephen has already earned a prize in music theory that is coveted by adults (Winner, 1998). Brian was prescribed Ritalin when he was young to assist in controlling his hyperactive behavior. He also received resource room support in grades 3 and 4. Currently, his sixth-grade teacher reports that distractibility and basic reading skills still pose problems for him, yet his WISC-R scores include a Verbal IQ of 118 and a Performance of 128 (Crawford & Snart, 1994). Brad does not have the motor control to paint, draw, or do geometric constructions, yet he did well in both art and geometry. He cannot speak, yet he attained As in both speech and French (Willard-Holt, 1998). Question: Which of these children are girted? Answer: All of them. These children are examples of individuals who are asynchronous or uneven in some aspect of their development. They defy the notion of what Winner (1998) termed "global giftedness," a phrase that denotes ability or talent in all academic areas. In today's educational system, the myth of global giftedness is quite prevalent. While some students are talented in all academic areas, many more are not. Unevenness tends to be the rule rather than the exception. Thus, many children, due to a deficit in some aspect of development, are excluded from gifted programming--something many of them desperately need. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2022 APA, all rights reserved) (Source: chapter)

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