gifted and intellectual disabled children's social competence profile

objective: the present study has been carried out to compare the social competence in two group students with intellectual disability (id) and gifted. method: this research was kind of descriptive research with 2 comparative groups. 100 gifted and intellectual disability (id) students aged 12 to 13 years (50 gifted & 50 id) were selected randomly as statistical sample. for the assessment of social competence, felner 4 dimensions social competence test (sct) has been used. this test has 47 items with 4 subscales. the data were analyzed by using t test. results: the results revealed that social competence mean scores of gifted students were significantly higher than the mean scores of students with id (p). in addition, the mean scores of girls were significantly more than boys in both groups. discussion: finding confirms that id students have not reached to social competence, because of mind impairments (mental retardation, theory of mind and executive function) and gifted students have high level of social competence, because of high level of iq and high processing and interpreting social ques.