The author of this article began research on the interests of young, gifted children in 1980, based on a theory she constructed to explain the development of giftedness and creativity (Cohen, 1984). She has been following 18 such children from infancy and plans to continue collecting information on them through at least their school lives. She is adding more cases to this study, including average and at risk youngsters.
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