Gifted Children

New findings from an ongoing 45-year Vanderbilt study reveal that patterns found in test scores and a psychological assessment measuring the personal values of nearly 700 intellectually gifted adolescents were highly predictive of the distinct fields of eminence they would occupy by age 50. Read More

Vanderbilt's Study of Mathematically Precocious Youth is featured in the September issue of the prestigious scientific journal "Nature." Read More

With equal test scores, black students are about half as likely as their white peers to be assigned to gifted programs in math and reading, according to a new Vanderbilt University study. Read More

New Vanderbilt research shows that gender plays a role in how once super-smart teens define success in mid-life. Read More

Summer Academy at Vanderbilt for the Young (Vanderbilt University) The Saturday Academy at Vanderbilt for the Young (SAVY) provides a dynamic, fast-paced curriculum experience to qualifying gifted children in kindergarten through grade 6. Vanderbilt professors, master teachers and graduate students offer accelerated SAVY courses that cover a wide variety of… Read More

Ann Kaiser, premier scholar in child language intervention, has been selected to receive the prestigious J. E. Wallace Wallin Lifetime Achievement Award of the Council for Exceptional Children. Read More

Vanderbilt University Professor Donna Y. Ford is among the distinguished nominees for the 45th NAACP Image Awards. Read More

As schools nationwide prepare for the new academic year, education experts from Vanderbilt University’s Peabody College of education and human development are available for back-to-school interviews on a variety of topics. Read More

Teacher Jamie Teasley and students Ella Martin and Ellica Granath work on projects during SAVY, a Saturday morning academy hosted by Programs for Talented Youth at Vanderbilt. (Daniel Dubois/Vanderbilt University) The Saturday Academy at Vanderbilt for the Young, a dynamic, fast-paced curriculum experience for qualifying gifted children… Read More

The Saturday Academy at Vanderbilt for the Young will resume Sept. 10 and will be held consecutive Saturdays through Oct. 15. Read More

Education experts from the Vanderbilt Peabody College of education and human development are available for back-to-school interviews. Read More