Professor Wu Wu-tien of National Taiwan Normal University's department of special education writes, in a paper entitled "Talent Development and Work Skills Development in the Disabled" that overseas scholars assume that the number of gifted people among the disabled is similar to that among the non-disabled. Yet the proportion of gifted disabled people who are high achievers falls far below that of the gifted non-disabled.
師大特殊教育系教授吳武典在一篇〈殘障者才藝發展與職能發展〉文中也指出，根據國外學者推測，殘障者中資優的出現率應與非殘障者接近，然而資優殘障者能有卓越成就的比例遠低於非殘障的資優者。