Roeper Review articles

Recent articles from Roeper Review

From the editor's desk.
October 1, 2008... Welcome to Volume 30, Issue 4 of the Roeper Review: a continued special issue on the cognitive neuroscience of giftedness. Guest edited by Layne Kalbfleisch, the project started with a collection in our summer issue, which included articles exploring the biological nature of ability and...

Champion of cultural competence: an interview with Donna Y. Ford.(AN EVOLVING FIELD)(Interview)
October 1, 2008... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Donna Y. Ford, PhD, is Professor of Education and Human Development at Vanderbilt University where she teaches in the Department of Special Education. Donna has been a Professor of Special Education at the Ohio State University, an Associate Professor of Educational...

According to Jim: the flawed normal curve of intelligence.(Column)
October 1, 2008... An old philosopher once opined that "It is not the things we don't know that cause us so much trouble, it is the things we know that ain't so." So it is with the normal curve of intelligence. It is likely that on your bookshelf there are volumes of educational psychology or developmental...

Introduction to the cognitive neuroscience of giftedness special issue, Part 2.(SPECIAL ISSUE: THE COGNITIVE NEUROSCIENCE OF GIFTEDNESS)(Report)
October 1, 2008... Following the first issue on the cognitive neuroscience of giftedness that featured articles based directly on neuroimaging evidence, this volume presents large behavioral, neuropsychological, and theoretical paradigms of the cognitive neuroscience of giftedness. The two articles presented...

Neurodevelopmental variation as a framework for thinking about the twice exceptional.(Report)
October 1, 2008... At times it seems as if those of us in the general field of child development and developmental disorders are like blind men looking at elephants: we are ostensibly studying the same pachyderm yet we often come up with quite different impressions or highlight quite disparate facets. Indeed,...