NEW Graphics Gallery and Image Search Animated GIFs Photos Icons Clip Art Talent exists in many forms and to varying degrees. It is primarily for any parent and teacher who want to learn more about this area in order to uncover potential and foster the development of talents in children. Developing talents can be an enriching and enjoyable experience for youths and young adults as well. Information provided here may guide those of you who are interested in extending your own capabilities along this most rewarding path.
All children are special to someone.
Research in various fields have together indicated that practically every normal child has some form of talent or the potential to develop them. Today's parents have certain responsibilities towards their children, not only in identifying potential and actual talent, but in nurturing and extending that talent. It cannot be over-emphasized that any normal child, if provided with the proper environment and nurture, can develop exceptional abilities and display properties that may be ranked as gifted in today's standards. The near mystical qualities known variously as intelligence, wisdom, talent, giftedness or any of a dozen names on apparently super-human abilities has had more than its fair share of superstition generated in human history. Not long ago, books on gifted children and intelligence were mostly about IQ tests and general and specific abilities, but research in artificial intelligence and cognitive psychology has transformed the landscape completely.