Children Above 180 IQ Stanford-Binet

Origin and Development

Leta Stetter Hollingworth

• Publisher: Aeneas Press
• Year: 2026
• Topic: Literature
• eBook ISBN:
  9785501223141
• Subtopic: Classics
• Index: Literature

Twelve children with tested intelligence above 180, followed through school and into adult life: what such a mind does to a childhood, and what the schools of the 1930s did to it. Leta Hollingworth founded the study of gifted children in America; she died before the book was finished, and her husband completed it from her case records. She is unsparing about isolation, and the chapter on what these children needed and did not get is the reason the book is still cited. Fifty-eight plates of portraiture and family scenes by Thomas Eakins and Mary Cassatt, 1826 to 1904, echo the study's long look at individual children and the homes that shaped them.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Copyright
• Foreword
• Preface
• Chapter One The Concept of Intellectual Genius
• Chapter Two Early Scientific Study of Eminent Adults
• Chapter Three Published Reports on Tested Children
• Chapter Four Child a
• Chapter Five Child B
• Chapter Six Child C
• Chapter Seven Child D
• Chapter Eight Child E
• Chapter Nine Child F
• Chapter Ten Child G
• Chapter Eleven Child H
• Chapter Twelve Child I
• Chapter Thirteen Child J
• Chapter Fourteen Child K
• Chapter Fifteen Child L
• Chapter Sixteen Summaries of Heredity and Early Behavior
• Chapter Seventeen Scholastic Achievement and Creative Activity
• Chapter Eighteen Adult Status and Personality Ratings
• Chapter Nineteen The Development of Personality in Highly Intelligent Children
• Chapter Twenty. The Child of Very Superior Intelligence as a Special Problem in Social Adjustment
• Chapter Twenty-One the Elementary Schooling of Very Bright Children
• Chapter Twenty-Two Problems of Relationship Between Elementary and Secondary Schools in the Case of Highly Intelligent Pupils
• About the Author