Today, October 25, marks a holiday you may not know about — International Artist Day, which is a good time to celebrate all aspects of the artistic life, from promoting up-and-coming artists to giving ...
Child prodigies evoke awe, wonder and sometimes jealousy: how can such young children display the kinds of musical or mathematical talents that most adults will never master, even with years of ...
Child prodigies evoke awe, wonder and sometimes jealousy: how can such young children display the kinds of musical or mathematical talents that most adults will never master, even with years of ...
As a psychology graduate student in 1998, Joanne Ruthsatz traveled to the bayous of Louisiana to meet a 6-year-old jazz prodigy. Ruthsatz had been studying exceptional adult and teenage performers, ...
Imagine a child who spoke his first words at three months old and then learned the entire alphabet by eight months. By 14 months he had memorized the atlas. Later, after attending university at age 9, ...
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Prodigies dazzle us with their virtuoso violin concertos, seemingly prescient chess moves, and vivid paintings. While their work would be enough to impress us if they were 40, prodigies typically ...
Donna Ford, a professor of education and human development at Vanderbilt University, is the author, most recently, of "Recruiting and Retaining Culturally Different Students in Gifted Education." ...
Joanne Ruthsatz receives funding fromThe Ingram foundation funded my genetic research on autism. As a toddler growing up in the 1950s, Richard Wawro threw violent tantrums. Often, he would tap the ...