Compensated education for gifted children with health and developmental disabilities

The article deals with the peculiarities of work with gifted children having health and developmental disabilities. We considered the problems concerning the understanding of mental abilities, talents, various creative gifts of children with physical and mental disabilities. The presented theoretical and practical material is an attempt to change the existing stereotypes in identifying gifted children with disabilities and their further creative development. The traditional approach in work with children of this category implies "averaging" of their learning outcomes and ignoring of individual peculiarities, as a result many talents of children may loss already at school. The new generation of teachers should be able to recognize every gifted child, including those who have health and developmental disabilities, and to find the effective methods of work with him. Special attention was paid to the alternative approaches to pedagogical work with gifted children having physical disabilities and difficulties in creative development. This approach will be of interest to teachers and specialists in the field of special education.