Gifted lives
what happens when gifted children grow up? joan freeman.
by Freeman, Joan · first published 2010
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This book reveals the dramatic stories of twenty outstandingly gifted people as they grew from early promise to maturity in Britain. Recorded over the last thirty-five years by award-winning psychologist, Joan Freeman, these fascinating accounts reveal the frustrations and triumphs of her participants, and investigates why some fell by the wayside whilst others reached fame and fortune. These exceptional people possess a range of intellectual, social and emotional gifts in fields such as mathematics, the arts, music and spirituality. Through their particular abilities, they were often confr
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"When Children with Dyslexia Grow Up" or "When Gifted Children Grow Up" make perfect sense as article titles. In fact, a quick Google search yields a book for the second: http://www.amazon.com/Gifted-Lives-What-Happens-Children/dp/... I think the title structure would work for any domain where most reporting/writing focuses on the condition in children, rather than their later development as adults.
on “When Children with Autism Grow Up” ↗For 36 years, Dr. Freeman has studied a group of 210 British children - some gifted, most not. In her new book, Gifted Lives, she concluded that, of the 20 identified as gifted, only six went on to adult lives that matched the potential of their early promise (one is a successful opera singer; another runs a hedge fund.) I…
on “The curse of being a gifted child” ↗