ABSTRACT
The previous chapter introduced 15 young Australians of truly remarkable intellectual and academic potential, and gave an overview of some of the educational and psychological research which has contributed to our knowledge of how extremely gifted children and adolescents learn, develop and view the world. The majority of this research has been undertaken in North America. Little empirical research on gifted and talented children has been conducted in Australia and there has been no other longitudinal study of the exceptionally gifted.
