Please put a link to my homepage somewhere on this document. The question isn't nearly as simple as it sounds. As the parent of a home-educated gifted child, I do believe that unschooling gifted children is different in some important ways from unschooling in general, and I do know that the gifted child comes with personality and learning differences that result in special needs. Just as for other children, unschooling can be the optimal educational environment for the gifted child, but only if those special needs are acknowledged and understood.
All children are special.
All children have talents. Perhaps gifted does not adequately describe these enigmatic children either, but other phrases such as high ability children, intellectually talented children, and highly intelligent children serve us no better and are certainly less graceful from a writer s standpoint. But these terms are not true synonyms. Like the Eskimos' xxx words for white, each term carries with it a slightly different meaning. I have finally decided that gifted is as good a term as any other perhaps precisely because of its ambiguity.