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Is giftedness a form of neurodivergence - WHYY

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NPR's Morning Edition takes listeners around the country and the world with two hours of multi-faceted stories and commentaries that inform, challenge and occasionally amuse. Morning Edition is the most listened-to news radio program in the country. Research has found that giftedness can look a lot like different types of neurodivergence in the brain. Shina Smith, 13, left, and Chris Douglass, 13, are two of 50 incoming students participating in Westlake High School's "Come West 9" summer program intended to reach out to gifted students in pursuit of a college education in Atlanta. (AP Photo/Jaime Henry-White) This story is from The Pulse, a weekly health and science podcast. Find it on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you get your podcasts. Being identified as “gifted” in school has long been associated with certain traits — high IQ, good grades, and future achievement. This understanding has been prominent ever since psychologist Lewis Terman — known as the “father of gifted educ

This story is from The Pulse, a weekly health and science podcast. Find it on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you get your podcasts. Being identified as “gifted” in school has long been associated with certain traits — high IQ, good grades, and future achievement. This understanding has been prominent ever since psychologist Lewis Terman — known as the “father of gifted education” — began publishing the results of his seminal study, “Genetic Studies of Genius.” Throughout the decades-long research project, which he launched in 1921, Terman followed roughly 1,500 high-IQ subjects from…

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