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Dan Holt discusses humor and the gifted child, focusing on how gifted students have complex ideas and cartoons can be a way of helping them communicate those ideas.
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Dr. Jon Reider, director of college counseling at San Francisco University High School and former admissions officer at Stanford University, gives some tips for parents who have unconventional students looking at college entrance.
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Drawing on his own life experience and the experiences of parents who participated in his onine seminar, Corey Cerovsek discusses various aspects of the lives of gifted young musicians.
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Jessica Fields, currently in her junior year at Princeton University, where she is pre-med majoring in anthropology and creative writing as well as captain of the varsity fencing team, discusses ways to prepare your child for an Ivy League future.
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Dr. Fred Frankel explores issues that children who are gifted and talented have in making and keeping friendships and in getting along with peers.
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Colleen Willard-Holt, summarizing her online seminar, discusses the basics of the brain, including memory, the effects of stress, sleep-cycles and the nature vs. nurture argument.
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Dr. Nadia Webb gives a quick Q & A about how to make sense of your child's assessment results.
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Sharon Lind shows parents how to develop a "personal survival kit" with which they will begin to meet their own needs in an emotionally intense family and enable themselves to better meet the needs of others.
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Ann Lupkowski-Shoplik discusses about many aspects of parenting a math-talented child, including: finding mentors, above-level testing, online math programs and the benefits & drawbacks of math acceleration.
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Juli Scala gives tips on setting and achieving goals.
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Dan Holt discusses ways to help parents help their students gain a new perspective on life by teaching ways of seeing humor in the world and using that humor to cope with stress.
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MaryAnn Swiatek explains that acceleration is a very good option for many students and offers things to consider in making a decision on acceleration.
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Ann Lupkowski-Shoplik highlights several concerns about acceleration including: Some of the signs that an acceleration might be needed; the impact of acceleration on social development; Is there a "Best" time to skip a grade?; Helping your child make the transition to the new grade; and much more.
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Ann Lupkowski Shoplik, Ph.D., Director of the Carnegie Mellon Institute for Talented Elementary and Secondary Students at Carnegie Mellon University, conducted a seminar for parents of academically talented students who were interested in acceleration. Below are some of the points discussed during the seminar.
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Ann Lupkowski Shoplik discusses how to work with the school, how to evaluate the child, when the best times are to accelerate and more. Shoplik also covers early entrance to college and also the option of not accelerating a child.
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Dr. Paul Beljan offers tips on how to help a gifted child who has ADD. Most importantly, he advocates for a full assessment and a holistic approach to treatment.
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Megan Foley Nicpon provides a detailed analysis of the issues that gifted students with ADHD encounter. Parents are provided a number of suggestions for treatment, through behavioral interventions and medications, to guarantee their gifted child’s long-term success and aid them in working through this disorder.
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Robert Schultz offers insight and parenting strategies appropriate for profoundly gifted teens.
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Dr. Esther Sinclair, an UCLA educational psychologist who specializes in advocating for appropriate education for children with special needs, including exceptionally and profoundly gifted children) shares 10 advanced tips regarding how to advocate for the educational needs of profoundly gifted students.
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This article offers practical suggestions for anyone interested in educational advocacy. These clear and pertinent tips will point a potential advocate in the right direction and aide them in keeping a positive focus.
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Source: Davidson Institute for Talent Development
This article offers a compilation of resources to help you be better prepared to advocate for a profoundly gifted young person. The resources offered here are are extensive collections themselves.
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P. Susan Jackson, the founder of the Daimon Institute for the Highly Gifted, is a psychotherapist, educational consultant and researcher who specializes in the overall development of highly, exceptionally and profoundly gifted persons. The following is a synthesis of information provided to parents from an online seminar on social and emotional development of the profoundly gifted child.
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Maureen Neihart gives tips on how to help their gifted children build strong social networks. In addition, Neihart explains that highly gifted children have problems relating to and interacting with their peers because of a lack of similar interests and intelligence.
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Kara McGoey highlights ten helpful tips for parents who are looking to collaborate with their child's school personnel. If you are a parent of a gifted child who is looking to build a successful relationship with your child's school, this should prove helpful.
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This is a summary of the college admission seminar for the Davidson Academy parents facilitated by Deborah Claymon. Starting at grade 11, Claymon walks the reader through the steps students should follow in order to ask the right questions, take the right tests, and apply to the right colleges!
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Kara McGoey reveals effective strategies in helping gifted children manage their behavior, especially in the classroom.
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Tonya Witherspoon has compiled an extensive list of kid-safe and family-friendly web sources. Wittherspoon provides suggestions on how you can help keep your child's online surfing experience a safe one.
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This full text article by Sharon Lind provides a list of tips and words to use in developing a vocabulary of feeling words. Advice is targeted at parents of emotionally intense children. The goal is to offer them tools for understanding and expressing theiremotional state.
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Dr. Jon Reider, director of college counseling at San Francisco University High School and former admissions officer at Stanford University, led an informational seminar for parents of profoundly gifted students considering early college entrance. Reider shares tips which are applicable to homeschooled students while discussing trends in such applications.
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Dr. Esther Sinclair (UCLA educational psychologist) specializes in advocating for appropriate education for children with special needs, including exceptionally and profoundly gifted children. In this article, Sinclair shares 10 tips regarding how to advocate for the educational needs of profoundly gifted students.
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Source: Davidson Young Scholar Seminar
Sharon Lind provides specific strategies for helping gifted people to "recognize, cope with, cherish and take advantage of their emotional intensity."
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Source: Davidson Institute for Talent Development
This article offers tips for parents on finding a mentor for their gifted child including things to keep in mind when your child is seeking a mentorship and six steps to establishing an effective mentorship.
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This article by Cory Cerovsek is one person's description of his experience with school acceleration and early college. He entered college at the age of 12. Cory feels his experience was a very good one and recommends it as an option.
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Dr. Fred Frankel (Professor of Medical Psychology and Director of the UCLA Parenting and Children's Friendship Program) offers insight on how children develop friendships and the differences in how boys and girls intereact with their friends.
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Source: Davidson Institute for Talent Development
Suggestions of toys and games appropriate for Young Scholars submitted by both families and Davidson staff members.
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Jim Delisle points out that teens need their parents in their teen years just as much as they did in kindergarten, just in different ways. Several strategies are offered as to how to address common teenage issues.
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Miraca Gross' compilation is a must-read on how parents can help facilitate productive friendships for their gifted children and prevent them from becoming "loners." Gross stresses the importance of understanding the difference in a child's emotional and social development (compared to their age-peers) and how crucial this is to how parents cope with their child's upbringing.
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This article demystifies the "Ability-to-Benefit" rules for federal student aid as they apply to early college entrants. It also arms parents with the information they need when filling out the Free Application for Federal Student Aid. The FAFSA is required for all federal student aid, and many colleges use it for all financial aid applications.
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Barbara Clark briefly touches on the basic structure and function of the brain and then goes on to describe three levels of giftedness: moderate, high, and profound. Characteristics of the profoundly gifted are offered as well as a summary of clues from brain research for parents and educators.
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This article by Sylvia Rimm contains ten pointers on how to encourage girls to become successful women. It offers suggestions and explanations for each of the pointers. The brief article comes right to the point and the guidelines will be helpful to any person who spends time with young people.
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Dr. Nadia Webb gives tips to homeschooling moms by addressing some of the challenges parents go through while homeschooling their child and what can be done to deal with them. The article also suggests ways for mothers to make time for themselves through private reflection and socializing.
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Meredith Warshaw discusses how homeschooling is oftentimes a good option for twice exceptional children because it allows for different levels of individual subjects to be taught. It also allows one to focus on the child in the ways that work best for that particular student.
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Deborah Ruf provides a step-by-step guide for parents to assess their children’s level and profile of giftedness, how they learn and view the process of learning, and how their children’s gender impacts the effect of planning for their children’s best educational placement.
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Kara McGoey discusses promoting the pro-social behavior of profoundly gifted children. Five themes are described along with specific strategies for promoting prosocial behavior.
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Dr. Edward R. Amend delivers a valuable Q & A article related to gifted assessment.
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John Wasserman covers 14 great bullet point recommendations on the subject of assesment. These recommended tips are provided from Wasserman after having directed a large East-coast gifted assessment program that has served thousands of children.
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Sharon Lind offers suggestions on living with introverts, providing for them in the classroom and at home, and changes that adults can make to help introverts. It includes more than 20 straightforward tips.
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Dr. Nadia Webb gives a quick overview of different assessment tests and how to best utilize them to your meet your childs needs and abilities.
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Dr. Robin Schader of the Neag Center for Gifted Education and Talent Development explains the factors that lead to achievement. A number of interesting ideas are presented on everything from the joy of learning to the value of hard work.
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According to facilitator Maureen Neihart, research tells us that there are seven mental competencies that drive performance. These are the skills that keep our focus sharp, order our attention, and keep us engage in the learning process. In order to help children realize there potential, Neihart advises that we need to be intentional in our efforts to help them learn these mental skills for high performance.
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In these notes from her Davidson seminar, Megan Foley Nicpon discusses how to conduct successful educational interventions and the definition of "Twice-Exceptional."
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Dr. Sylvia Rimm lists seven specific tips for parents, and offers an explanation of each tip listed. Rimm touches on topics such as Foresight, Praise, Power, United Parenting, and Twice Exceptional Children.
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Ann Lupkowski Shoplik, Ph.D, the director of the Carnegie Mellon Institute for Talented Elementary Students, conducted a seminar for parents of mathematically-talented students. A number of topics were discussed, including program options and opportunities for math-talented students.
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Dr. Edward Amend suggests ideas to foster relationships, improve discipline, and increase motivation for your gifted child.
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This article provides an excellent starting point for the parent or professional gathering data about peer relations. "Research on social adjustment and development of highly gifted children suggests that the more highly gifted the child, the more likely there will be less than optimal social and emotional adjustment" (Lovecky).
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Elizabeth Meckstroth offers insight into perfectionism by outlining several valuable parenting strategies for dealing with profoundly gifted children who demonstrate perfectionist tendencies.
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Karen Rogers discusses how to determine the best matches between a child’s documented educational needs and the provisions a school might be able to offer.
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Parents of profoundly gifted children are frequently on the look out for the perfect solution, socially and academically for their children. Jim Delisle offers parenting advice on overcoming guilt due to judgement errors, based on three decades of working with gifted children and their parents.
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Monica Andis, the Program Manager of the Nutrition and Dietary Services at the West Virginia University Center for Excellence in Disabilities, answers questions about food selectivity. Questions are addressed for parents seeking information about their highly gifted children's eating issues and food sensitivities.
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Professor Miraca Gross delivers some tips on radical accelerations. One highlight points outs the advantages as well as the schortcomings of such an experience.
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Jim Delisle includes tips and advice for overcoming perfectionist tendencies that may hamper exploration. Delisle discusses strategies parents can use to get their children to explore new options, even when it means they may not be the very best in this area.
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Carol Martin outlines the various steps to successfully completing the writing section of the SAT. Tips include how to prepare properly in order to alleviate the anxiety of test-taking for some children.
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James Webb offers suggestions to parents on how to obtain support for their family and their gifted child. Tips for when to look for and how to find a psychologist that is a right fit are offered. Webb also gives suggestions on what to tell the child about the therapy.
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This article by Barbara Clark offers a list of strategies to use with your gifted children to help them to accept themselves as they are, to provide a place where they feel they can be themselves and to try to help their educators to understand them as well.
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Sanford Cohn conducted this seminar for parents of highly intelligent boys. This article offers families four recommendations to consider in relation to radical acceleration.
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Dr. Mary Ann Swiatek addresses issues raised by parents on several topics, including acceleration, personality characteristics and developmental tasks.
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Dr. James Delisle covers several strategies for dealing with socialization issues of highly gifted young children. Delisle draws upon his own experience as well as those of parents.
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During this seminar, Wes Beach gives advice on how students can prepare for the college admission process. Some ideas include: Focusing on personal qualities, nurturing personal traits and looking at "the fit, not the school."
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In this seminar, Nadia Webb discusses how a gifted child as a "tweener" becomes easier with age. Factors that facilitate this process include life changing events such as Dual Enrollment - giving them a dose of social reality. Ms Webb also offers tips on how to communicate with your teen regarding puberty.
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Aimee Yermish, an educational therapist specializing in work with children who are gifted, learning-disabled, or twice-exceptional, discusses the transition from “child prodigy” to “eminent adult” and why it is not always an easy transition for gifted kids.
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Tonya L. Witherspoon references in excess of 60 online links to fun technology projects and programs that help mentally stimulate gifted children. Witherspoon recommends everything from clay animation projects to roaming robots and electronic portfolios.
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Barbara Clark, Ed.D. provides ideas based on the findings from neuroscience studies that can help parents understand and nurture children whose behaviors and needs are significantly beyond those usually found with children in their age range.
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Covered below are many issues that gifted teens face in school in their social lives and at home. Strategies for helping teens through these difficult times are suggested.
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Why is nonfiction writing so difficult for some gifted children? Like many questions surrounding the gifted child, this question is difficult to answer. Brenda Rinard discusses students who may write fiction, but have a hard time writing non-fiction and how these children soon become labeled as "reluctant writers."
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Dr. Fred Frankel, director of the UCLA Children's Friendship program, discusses the important role of friendships for gifted and talented children.
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Dr. Thomas Greenspon outlines the dangers of perfectionism for families. Many gifted children, and their parents strive for excellence, in their academic efforts, as well as in the home. Greenspon offers tips on how to take perceived failure in stride, in order to continue to excel.
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One of the murkiest, yet most important areas associated with giftedness is the broad scope of social and emotional needs. In this Tip for Parents sheet, Dr. Robert A. Schultz covers a few of the topics discussed during a recent Bulletin Board seminar on the Social/Emotional Needs of the Highly/Profoundly Gifted Individual.
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Source: Davidson Institute for Talent Development
If you are the parent of a gifted child, you are most likely dealing with some extra challenges. This article offers ideas on how to manage parenting the exceptional child.
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Tom Letson, MA LPC NCC ia a fulltime NJ Public School Counselor and author of the internationally recognized bully reporting and information website, Bullystoppers.com. Find answers to such topics as deaing with your child's school, when/if to involve the police and when to involve the other parent when bullying is happening to your child.
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In this article, Miraca Gross expands on a previous online seminar. New data is provided on very early developmental advancement and the influence of sound educational planning and decision-making by families.
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In this seminar, Robert A. Schultz, P.h.D., maintains that parents and teachers should zero in on the contruct of boredom and continue to question the meaning behind it until a statement is made that is addressable.
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This full text article by Edward Amend discusses worry and stress as related to gifted children. The author explains that some worry is good and is a motivator, but that it is important to distinguish between a normal amount of worry and an amount that will cause problems for the child. The article provides tips for parents on things to look for and ways to help.
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Dr. Amend gives important, straight-to-the-point tips for easing, and sometimes avoiding, your child's worrisome episodes. Amend states that strengthening the child's ability to handle stress and frustration is a gradual process and naturally requires the child to experience frustration along the way.
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Carol Martin, teacher for gifted and talented students, offers parents tips on how they can help their gifted child develop the writing skills that will be necessary as they continue their education. Carol highlights the concern many parents have when their precocious student is reluctant to write.
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Does your child show a strong interest in science? Is he curious about nature or stars or medicine? If your child shows any interest in science, you should do everything you can to foster that passion. An interest in the scientific world may develop at a young age and it is important to keep such interest alive.
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