Counseling needs of culturally diverse gifted students

Abstract

The present emphasis on gifted education has not significantly concentrated on the needs of culturally diverse gifted. Most of the attention regarding culturally diverse gifted has focused on systems of identification. The purpose of this article is to argue that these youngsters have unique counseling and teaching needs because of their ethnicity and their abilities. The main challenge for counselors is to help this population of students integrate their ethnic identity with their identity as gifted learners.