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A unique child: Gifted and talented children - Too much too young
Nursery World,
26 June 2008
What can early years practitioners do to support a young child whose exceptional abilities may bring problems? Elaine Hook offers advice.
What makes a child unusually fidgety and restless? Obsessive and a perfectionist? Quiet and solitary or downright disruptive? You might associate some of these traits with autistic spectrum and other disorders, but do you ever link such characteristics to a child with exceptional intelligence? Early signs of high ability in children are many and varied, but the ones listed above are common, and the more able the child, the more characteristics that can be displayed. Early years practitioners need...
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