ABSTRACT
The first topic that the author would like to address is the question “Are all students gifted?” The answer to this question is no. Students with gifts and talents are as equally mentally and physically healthy (if not more so) as the general population of students. Studies in the United States going back 80 or more years, along with multiple more recent studies, have illustrated this fact again and again. The incremental model is much more representative of what actually takes place in a person’s life from birth until death relative to developing specific skills. An interesting corollary to the diversification of America intersecting with the technology evolution is playing out socially among the students. True for the general population of adolescents, and especially true for some gifted adolescents, is the desire for authenticity among the adults they deal with. The social and emotional development of students with gifts and talents lasts a lifetime.
