257.44  Gifted and talented children defined.

"Gifted and talented children" are those identified as possessing outstanding abilities who are capable of high performance. Gifted and talented children are children who require appropriate instruction and educational services commensurate with their abilities and needs beyond those provided by the regular school program.

Gifted and talented children include those children with demonstrated achievement or potential ability, or both, in any of the following areas or in combination:

1.  General intellectual ability.

2.  Creative thinking.

3.  Leadership ability.

4.  Visual and performing arts ability.

5.  Specific ability aptitude.

Section History: Recent form

  89 Acts, ch 135, § 44


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