... educational development. In doing so, I will consider the research for and against inclusion for gifted children, concentrating on the early stage of their educational development. Research: For and Against Hollingworth, one of the foremost researchers in this field, defined an I.Q. ranging between 125 and 155 as socially optimal, claiming that the difference between the highly gifted child - of I.Q. 160 or higher - and his or her age peers is such that it would lead to problems of social development, caused by the absence of a suitable peer group with whom the highly gifted child could relate. Thus, when highly gifted children are rejected by age-peers and removed from an age-based educational setting, permitting them to work and play with intellectual peers, loneliness and social isolation lessens and the child is accepted as a peer.2 Gross found similarly that, while age-based educational settings are appropriate for children ...

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