Michael Matthews suggests in his October 15, 2015, NAGC blog, that there is an easy way to increase gifted program enrollment while making it more representative of the school population. The evaluation of student portfolio products and response to intervention (Rtl) helps in "identifying high ability among students from linguistically diverse and low-socioeconomic backgrounds".
"Identifying and serving CLD students enriches the fabric of gifted education and cultivates what is still an untapped national resource."-NAGC: Identifying and Serving Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Gifted Students