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This book provides an account of the development of 15 children with IQs exceeding 160. Gross examines indepth the children's developmental and educational history, and common characteristics. As well, it identifies educational strategies and adaptations for exceptionally gifted students. This book is must read for anyone raising, teaching, counseling, or assessing highly and profoundly gifted children.
http://www.ebookmall.com/ebook/76379-ebook.htm
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This book presents research on the early developmental history of children who come to perform at the gifted IQ level during middle childhood, representing an integration of the four authors' interests in the fields of intelligence, psychometrics, and developmental psychology. The research presented is based on the Fullerton Longitudinal Study, which entails the systematic investigation of a single cohort studied from infancy onward.
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A comprehensive research-based publication offering practical assistance for:
- Parents of young gifted children
- University students in undergraduate early childhood or gifted education courses
- Academics studying and researching giftedness in early childhood
- Early childhood educators
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Aletha Solter presents a new approach to parenting which respects the child's needs and feelings. Without using punishment nor rewards, children are allowed to reach their highest potential.
http://www.awareparenting.com/books.htm
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Play is the child's way of learning about, adapting to and integrating with his or her environment. In addition to adequate sports and recreation facilities children need a wide variety of opportunities, choices and raw materials that they can use as they see fit for free constructive creative play. These essays, drawn from papers given at the International Playgrounds Association's Seventh World Congress, focus on the social significance of play.
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The author of 10 books that concentrate on early child development and education, Holt is widely considered the father of the modern-day homeschooling movement because he grew to believe that schools stifle the learning process. In this, his final book--compiled by colleagues from drafts, letters, and magazine essays written by Holt before he died in 1985--he strings together his own observations and philosophies to show how young children can be encouraged to learn everything from reading and math to music and science.
http://www.holtgws.com/learningalltheti.html
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While this digest includes articles, research reports and advice from Gifted Children Monthly, it also contains original work by James Alvino on emotional needs, perfectionism and the superbaby scourge and gender-specific issues.
http://www.alibris.com/search/search.cfm?qwork=4987184&matches=15&qsort=r
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This book from Bob Murray and Alicia Fortinberry, offers a safe, drug-free approach o protect your child from depression. Parents can learn how to spot the early signs fo depression and even prevent your own depression from influencing your child.
http://www.raisinganoptimisticchild.com/
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In this book, author and therapist Steve Biddulph explains to parents how to embrace the differences between boys and girls and work with them. Citing such gender specific risks facing boys as a higher percentage of learning disabilities to greater threats of violence and suicide, Biddulph maps out parenting strategies for three distinct stages of growth
http://www.bestwebbuys.com/Raising_Boys-ISBN_0890878536.html?isrc=b-search
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Authors Robert Brooks and Sam Goldstein present a set of 10 essential parenting behaviors ("guideposts") - a prescription of sorts, for nurturing resilience in kids. Each chapter describes a different guidepost and illustrates what can be done to foster psychological strength, hope and optimism.
http://www.raisingresilientkids.com/
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Dr. William Pollack provides an inside look into the secret emotional lives of boys. The reader is able to hear boys speak for themselves, in their own voices, about everything from violence, school, parents, depression and girls to suicide, sports, sex and spirituality.
http://www.williampollack.com/voices_intro.html
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This exciting book by three pioneers in the new field of cognitive science discusses important discoveries about how much babies and young children know and learn, and how much parents naturally teach them. It argues that evolution designed us both to teach and learn, and that the drive to learn is our most important instinct. It also reveals as fascinating insights about our adult capacities and how even young children -- as well as adults -- use some of the same methods that allow scientists to learn so much abo...
http://www.brainconnection.com/topics/?main=bkrev/gopnik-scientist
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This Gifted Child Today reader, by Susan Johnsen and James Kendrick, covers some of the most important issues facing gifted and talented girls during their school years, from elementary school through college. Included are specific chapters on counseling and classroom strategies for help ensure these students' future success.
http://www.prufrock.com/productdetails.cfm?PC=552
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A classic introduction to growing up gifted, the GUIDE has now been revised and updated for today’s bright, creative, talented kids. Based on new surveys of hundreds of gifted kids, it speaks directly to them. It includes first-person advice from boys and girls that’s pertinent, realistic, and inspiring. It answers readers’ questions about why they think and learn the way they do, what 'giftedness' and IQ really mean, different types of intelligence, how to handle high expectations, how to make school more challenging, how to cope with teasing,...
http://www.kidsource.com/books/gifted.survival.10under.html
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This anthology provides a practical, informative, and wide-ranging discussion of how to meet the needs of the gifted in the early years. Click here to read a review of this book.
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This book is intended for children in grades K-4 whose visual perceptual skills are developing. It has excercies in mazes, visual discrimination, visual closure, visual memory, visual sequential memory, and visual spatial relationship.
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