Academically gifted students or high potential learners don't feel challenged in regular classrooms. Teachers in schools are also not quipped with pedagogical interventions to meet the advanced learning needs of gifted students. Mentoring is considered an effective method to guide, motivate and optimize learning abilities of gifted students. The…

Discussed is the use of profile analysis of subtest scores on the Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children-Revised as a basis for educational programing for learning disabled students, and noted is the lack of evidence suggesting the use of these profile analyses in planning remedial programs. (IM)

The Pluralistic Assessment Project, which has been funded for three years by the National Institute of Mental Health, was developed in response to the results of earlier studies on the epidemiology of mental retardation. During 1963 and 1964, data were gathered for a comprehensive epidemiology of mental retardation in the City of Riverside,…