ABSTRACT
This chapter summarizes the state of the relevant literature for the benefit of parents everywhere struggling to provide their children with experiences appropriate to their extraordinary potential—in the home, in the classroom, and in the world at large. The explanatory power of the co-incidence model although directed in its original form at the extremes of talent—the prodigy—reaches beyond those rare cases and is emblematic of a deeper shift in the dominant conceptualization of human development and potential. Within the scholarship on individual cognitive difference, there has been increasing focus on what is known as twice-exceptionality. Though hardly a novel phenomenon, the learning profile and its associated terminology are new. The twice-exceptional child is considered to be a child with gifted-level intelligence, or prodigious talent, in one or more domains, with marked deficits in other areas. There is a saying that talent seems to run in families.
