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Gifted Programs

SOI contributes to gifted education in two ways.

First, the various SOI tests offer an effective means of identifying giftedness in students. The tests measure a breadth of cognitive abilities so they are appropriate for use with very diverse populations. An atypical gifted learner, for example, may make a brilliant engineer even though his reading skills may not be well developed. A student may be outstanding in reading and writing but unable to pass an algebra exam. There are many examples of students who are gifted but have learning difficulties. High creatives and the spatially gifted may struggle with written output. There are many examples of students who are gifted but have learning difficulties. SOI/IPP can diagnose and remediate most of these students while providing challenging exercises in their area of giftedness.

Second, the SOI training modules offer to a gifted program a qualitatively different instructional content, not just accelerated academics. This provides an opportunity to enhance already gifted abilities and to develop abilities that are not yet at the gifted level.

A unique feature of the SOI approach to the gifted is that it carries a positive message for the near-gifted. In most gifted programs the student is either in or out according to the qualifying criteria. With the SOI approach the near-gifted have a clear means of becoming gifted if they want to develop their near-gifted abilities to the gifted level.

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