The Belin-Blank Center is one of the most comprehensive centers focusing on gifted education. The Center engages in research, programs for students, professional development for educators, training for graduate students, talent searches, conferences, online programs, invention programs, and international programs for students and teachers. The Center's Assessment and Counseling Clinic is renowned for its work with gifted students who have disabilities (twice-exceptional students). The national report, A Nation Deceived: How Schools Hold Back America's Brightest Students, led to the establishment of the Institute for Research and Policy on Acceleration. The Center has a strong commitment to the identification of children with exceptional ability from all backgrounds and to curricular interventions to nurture and develop those abilities.