Giftednes although is not confined only to economically of social groups even they may come from very poor and minority communities like scheduled castes and scheduled tribes. The gifted children are found in all state of society irrespective of racial, ethic, religions, rural or urban groups, high or low position of social and economic status. The gifted children show their progress when they work with the children of high I.Q and intellectually superior children, most of the gifted children are victimized in the age old system of education system, chronological age grouping and traditional examination pattern. Memorization and span of attention.Their vocabulary range is very wide and they like to adopt independent works and complex directions. Due to their special abilities they show significant achievements in learning rate, reading aspect. The gifted children loose their talent when they are bound to pace with the normal school curricular programmes. They do not find intellectual stimulation in the traditional class-work, school books, syllabus and methods of teaching adopted for the average children. They show promise in music, dancing poetry, creative writing, dramatics, graphic arts, creative scientific exteriority and an unusual imagination. Normally gifted children are superior in reasoning power to that of other children. Handicapped and mentally retarded, belong to the category of exceptional children. From this definition it is presumed that all the gifted, back ward, physically According to Kirk the exceptional child is that child who deviates from the average or Normal child in mental, physical or social characteristics to such an extent that he requires a modification of school practices or a special educational service, in order to develop to his maximum capacity. A gifted child is mainly an exceptional child.
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