Social/Emotional Needs: On Chance and Being Gifted

Tracy L. Cross

This column examines the role of chance in the lives of gifted students. More specifically, it illustrates how being gifted (whether or not one is identified as being gifted and the experience of being gifted) is affected by a particular chance factor. Specific examples are used to illustrate different manifestations of chance factors that affect the lives of gifted students.

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