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Shaywitz, Sally E.; Holahan, John M.; Freudenheim, Daniele A.; Fletcher, Jack M.; Makuch, Robert W.; Shaywitz, Bennett A. – Gifted Child Quarterly, 2001
A study involving boys (grades 4-7) who were highly gifted (n=18), low gifted (n=17), had learning disabilities (n=26), and were typical (n=26), found highly gifted boys exhibited levels of behavioral problems similar to those with learning disabilities, whereas low gifted boys had lower levels than boys with learning disabilities. (Contains…
Descriptors: Behavior Problems, Elementary Secondary Education, Gifted, Hyperactivity
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Grossberg, Ingrid N.; Cornell, Dewey G. – Exceptional Children, 1988
Eighty-three gifted children, aged 7-11, and their parents completed self-report instruments on personality adjustment. Intelligence was positively related to adjustment. Compared to the group as a whole, the children with higher IQs were less anxious and nervous and less likely to evidence problems in physical development, cognitive development,…
Descriptors: Adjustment (to Environment), Behavior Problems, Elementary Education, Gifted
Tannenbaum, Abraham J. Ed. – 1968
Nine conference papers consider the application of knowledge and methods known to special education to the instruction of disadvantaged children. Edmund W. Gordon views the disadvantaged population; Frank B. Wilderson discusses behavior disorders in children from deprived backgrounds; Harriet Green Kopp describes problems of perception and…
Descriptors: Behavior Change, Behavior Problems, Cognitive Processes, Disadvantaged Youth