Identifying and Serving Recent Immigrant Children Who Are Gifted

Identifying and Serving Recent Immigrant Children Who Are Gifted
By Carole Ruth Harris, Ed.D.
Educational Resource Information Center (U.S. Department of Education)

The challenge of identifying gifted children and providing them with appropriate educational services is particularly complex when they are recent immigrants to the United States. Linguistic and cultural backgrounds, economic and attitudinal factors, sociocultural peer-group expectations, cross-cultural stress, and intergenerational conflict may all influence efforts to recognize and provide appropriate learning opportunities. Although immigrant groups are culturally diverse, they share some unique challenges when interfacing with the setting.

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