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Clinical psychologist Michael D. Whitley presents a proven ten-step program to motivate underachieving children. For any parent who has ever been told, "your child isn't performing up to his or her potential," this book has the answer.
http://www.docwhitley.com
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Peter A. Spevak and Maryann Karinch provide techniques on constructively engaging and empowering your child by giving him/her choices instead of ultimatums. The theory behind the techniques: understanding the underachiever’s behavior on an emotional level.
http://www.addall.com/detail/0882822829.html
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This text's research is included in every book and research paper concerning "Twice-Exceptional," "Gifted/Learning Disabled," or underserved gifted populations that has followed. It is a must have for all researchers, parents, and or teachers who are concerned about or deal with highly able students that have mitigating problems.
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This annotated bibliography features 18 resources related to mathematics. All are relevant to motivation, although only about one-third focus exclusively on motivation. The list includes many books and articles. Online articles and discussion groups include links.
http://mathforum.org/~sarah/Discussion.Sessions/biblio.motivation.html
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This book provides excellent insight into the reasons some gifted Black students are not identified as such by the processes currently in place. It also provides reasons some Black parents may not wish their child to be included in gifted programs. It discusses Black culture and Black dialect. A very good book for educators who are concerned about minorities being underrepresented in our school's gifted programs.
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This textbook for educators is intended to help them learn to define underachievement as it pertains to the gifted, identify its characteristics and causes among the gifted, see the effects of neglecting underachievement in these students, understand the special needs of gifted underachievers which are different from the basic needs of students in general, and practice specific ways to help gifted underachievers.
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The result of an extensive five-year study, this pioneering book examines a group of gifted teenagers in an effort to understand the loss of motivation and diminution of talent that takes place during this troublesome period. Click here to read a review of this book.
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The Myth of Laziness, by Dr. Mel Levine, discusses neurodevelopmental dysfunctions that can cause "output failure" (commonly referred to as laziness) and shows parents how to nurture their children's strengths and improve their classroom productivity. It focuses on how correcting these problems in childhood will help children live a fulfilling and productive adult life. Parents who are told their gifted child is lazy or not living up to his/her potential can learn more about what laziness actually is, what causes it, and how to overcome it to a...
http://www.nprinc.com/curr/myths.htm
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This step-by-step program from Diane Heacox, proven successful in schools, tells you exactly what to do to break the failure chain. And it works for students of all ages, with all kinds of school problems--from the good student whose grades start slipping, to the seemingly incorrigible underachiever with a history of poor school performance.
http://www.freespirit.com/catalog/item_detail.cfm?ITEM_ID=246
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Dr. Rimm offers help for parents of underachieving children. Drawing on both clinical research and years of experience counseling families, she has developed a “Trifocal Model” to help parents and teachers work together to get students back on track.
Previously published in an earlier edition as Underachievement Syndrome: Causes and Cures.
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For any parent who has ever been told, "your child isn't performing up to his or her potential," this book has the answer. Renowned clinical psychologist Michael Whitley, Ph.D. offers a proven ten-step program to motivate underachieving children. This easy-to-follow book identifies the six types of underachievers from the procrastinator to the hidden perfectionist to the con artist, and it presents ten steps to help children succeed in school, and ultimately, in life.
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