Profile: the National Association for Gifted Children.
Until the foundation of NAGC in 1966, the general impression was that, of all sections of the child population, gifted children were among the best endowed and therefore the least worthy of our compassion and concern. Work with gifted children over the past 10 years has led us to reconsider the situation. Certainly the majority of them are successful, well-balanced and reach adult life with a large measure of happiness, but a sizeable minority unfortunately do not do so. For these children, giftedness itself brings problems, sometimes referred to as "the handicap of brilliance".
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