The kids who have ears twice the size of their peers, And noses that go on for days . . . Here’s to the kids who are different, The kids they call crazy or dumb, The kids who don’t fit, with the guts ...

Have you ever played a practical joke that you later regretted? It probably didn’t come close to what Donovan Curtis does in the opening pages of “Ungifted.” While goofing off during a ­middle-school ...

Scott Barry Kaufman, adjunct assistant professor of psychology at New York University and author of “Ungifted: Intelligence Redefined.” An interview with Scott Barry Kaufman adjunct assistant ...

EXCLUSIVE: Walden Media has optioned screen rights to Ungifted, a Gordon Korman novel that will be published fall 2012 through the Balzer + Bray imprint of HarperCollins. Korman is the author of two ...

How does a kid go from special ed to a Yale Ph.D.? The first year of my life I had a lot of ear infections, and I developed a learning disability called central auditory processing disorder. I had ...

The vexed issues of what great intelligence is and whether it’s as crucial to success as we imagine spur this fascinating treatise on cognitive psychology. Psychologist and Psychology Today blogger ...

UNGIFTED: Intelligence Redefined. By Scott Barry Kaufman. Basic Books. 272 pages. $26.99. Every day in American schools, children are tested for intelligence. Twenty years ago, the I.Q. of one ...

Scott Barry Kaufman is a cognitive psychologist at New York University. His new book is called Ungifted: Intelligence Redefined. In it, he critiques the idea of intelligence (or even multiple ...