Gifted and Talented Information

 

Kentucky offers gifted education services for identified students across all grade levels. Students in grades 4+ are formally identified for services in one or more of the following areas:

 

General Intellectual Aptitude

General Intellectual Aptitude means possessing either potential or demonstrated ability to perform at an exceptionally high level in general intellectual aptitude and possessing a consistently outstanding mental capacity as compared to children of the same age, experience, or environment. General intellectual aptitude is usually reflected in extraordinary performance in a variety of cognitive areas, such as abstract reasoning, logical reasoning, social awareness, memory, spatial relations, and the analysis, synthesis, and evaluation of information. (704 KAR 3.285)

Specific Academic Aptitude

Specific academic aptitude means possessing either potential or demonstrated ability to perform at an exceptionally high level in specific aptitude areas significantly beyond age, experience, or environment of one’s chronological peers. While students with specific aptitude are typically at least above average in intellectual ability, they are often extremely capable of high performance in one or  very few related academic areas. (704 KAR 3:285)

Psychosocial or Leadership Skills

Leadership ability means possessing either potential or demonstrated ability to perform at an exceptionally high level in social skills and interpersonal qualities such as poise, effective oral and written expression, managerial ability and the ability or vision to set goals and organize others to successfully reach those goals. (704 KAR 3.285)

Creative or Divergent Thinking

Creativity means possessing either potential or demonstrated ability to perform at an exceptionally high level in creative thinking and divergent approaches to conventional tasks. This is typically evidenced by innovative or creative reasoning, advanced insight and imagination, and solving problems in unique ways. (704 KAR 3.285)

Visual and Performing Arts

Visual and Performing Arts means possessing either potential or demonstrated ability to perform at an exceptionally high level in visual arts or performing arts and demonstrating potential for outstanding aesthetic production, accomplishment, or creativity in visual art, dance, music, or drama. (704 KAR 3.285)