Need to be Challenged
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Intelligence is often looked at something that can be precisely identified. There are specific categories that each person fits in and there is no gray area whatsoever. However, many people see intelligence as ever-changing process children pass through during their entire lifetime. One isn't necessarily going to have the same IQ when they are twenty-five that they had when they were six. Because intelligence is such an unresolved area in the field of psychology it can become difficult to meet the needs of children, as well as adults, who have special needs when it comes to learning. School systems deal with mentally challenged and gifted children every day and sometimes what it is that these children need is lost in the administrative shuffle.
The Webster Dictionary defines intelligence as the inborn quickness of understanding and adaptability to relatively new situations and information. This basically says that you are born with whatever mental capacities you will carry with you for the rest of your life. However, there is much evidence to support the contrary as well.
A gifted child is defined as a child whose intelligence quotient, or IQ, is above normal, usually 120+...