Originally Posted by JamieH
I do however feel there is a need for labels to identify how best to deal with a child's special needs. But I do see how some people would find the term gifted as offensive as it seems to only be applied to a subset of gifted talents. Plus I feel it is far too broad a term for even this subset of talents.

A more descriptive term than "gifted" could be "intellectually gifted" or "highly intelligent", but I think the people offended by the "gifted" label would not be more accepting of those labels.


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