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Tue 04 Apr 2001How to bring out the gifts of young females
Identify gifted girls early, before they have developed ingrained patterns of hiding. The best age for testing them is between the ages of three-and-a-half and seven. By eight or nine, their favourite response to test questions is "I don't know."
Find them peers who have similar abilities and interests. Age and sex are not that important in gifted children's choice of friends. (Parent support groups provide good networks for locating other gifted children.)
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