Chapter 9, Problem 1TS-P211

Take something (physical, personal or social) and change it.  Tell us, what you started out with, what it looked like after you changed it, and what you did to make the change.

humanized answers and couple of sentences for each:  How did the field of gifted education evolve, and why is it important for giftedness to be recognized as an exceptionality?  How do we define “gifts and talents,” and how are students identified? What are some characteristics of students with gifts and talents, and how can the information processing model (IPM) help us understand their needs? Why do students from culturally and linguistically different or socioeconomically disadvantaged homes and twice exceptional student continue to be under-identified for gifted-educational supports and services?  What educational responses are needed to address the strengths and challenges of students with gifts and talents? What life course considerations are important for students with gifts and talents?

Describe the difficulties that individuals may have trying to understand spoken language

List and describe the ways to understand better how we learn about language and the brain

Explain how language maps onto the brain

Explain how bilingualism, monolingualism, or trilingualism has affected you while using language in the Miami area

Describe the two models of language processing

2. How would you compare the lives of poor people living in the low-income nations of the world with those in cities and rural areas of the United States? In what ways are their lives similar? In what ways are they different?

discuss the critisism of functionslism theory