What Are the Pros and Cons of Treating Children Who

question 11

Essay

What are the pros and cons of treating children who have a verbal-performance gap where the verbal score is normal and the performance score is superior? To encourage debate, pose the question: Aren't these kids normal? Shouldn't they be allowed to get on with becoming great mechanics, engineers, architects, and computer programmers as their performance scores indicate they can be?

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Definitions:

Cockatoos

A type of large, often colorful and noisy, parrot native to Australia and surrounding islands.

Smuggled

The act of illicitly transporting goods across borders or into territories where they are prohibited or subject to taxes or duties.

Transit

The system or means of moving people or goods from one place to another.

Equilibrium Price

The price at which the quantity of goods demanded by consumers equals the quantity of goods supplied by producers in a market.