Delaware Administrative Code
Title 14 - Education
900 - Special Populations
902 - Gifted or Talented Education Plan
Section 902-2.0 - Definitions

The following words and terms, when used in this regulation, have the following meaning:

"Gifted or talented education plan" or " plan" means a Delaware Department of Education approved-document created by a school district or charter school for the development, implementation, and evaluation of an identification process and appropriate services for gifted or talented students.

"Gifted or talented student" means a child enrolled in a Delaware public school who has been identified by a professionally qualified person or persons as meeting the following definition of gifted or talented:

A child capable of high performance with demonstrated achievement or potential ability in any of the following giftedness areas, singularly or in combination:

General intellectual ability;

Specific academic aptitude;

Creative or productive thinking;

Leadership ability;

Visual and performing arts ability; or

Psychomotor ability.

"Relative caregiver" means, pursuant to 14 Del.C. § 202(f)(2), an adult who, by blood, marriage or adoption, is the child's great grandparent, grandparent, step grandparent, great aunt, aunt, step aunt, great uncle, uncle, step uncle, step parent, brother, sister, step brother, step sister, half brother, half sister, niece, nephew, first cousin, or first cousin once removed but who does not have legal custody or legal guardianship of the student.