| |
|
|
Average Rating:No rating available
This organization provides parents of profoundly gifted children support, insight, and a number of useful resources. Parents can also access information on the characteristics of gifted children. TPPG provides both an online and in-person support network.
http://www.tppg.org/Home_Page.html
|
| |
|
| |
|
See all 25 Resources
|
|
Average Rating:No rating available
This guidebook was written for parents of Tennessee students, yet it has application for everyone. It specifically addresses such topics as characteristics of gifted children, myths regarding gifted children, advocacy tips and practices, state policies (specific to Tennessee), schools, summer programs, support organizations, experts, and books/articles. Many of these topics have links to other resources available. The book also includes links to discussion groups/forums and resources for socio-emotional problems the gifted student my be expe...
http://www.giftedtn.org/index.htm
|
|
Average Rating:
This website includes topics related to gifted children such as information about testing, disabilities, education, and what it means to be gifted. It also has links to physics demonstrations, elementary science experiments, book links, and the Schonell Reading test (a simple test to determine your child’s reading age).
http://members.tripod.com/~gleigh/index.html
|
|
Average Rating:
This is a check list that shows how to identify if you or someone you know is gifted.
http://www.nswagtc.org.au/info/identification/characteristics.html
|
|
Average Rating:
This website has a variety of resources for educators, parents, students, and couselors that may be helpful in learning the various characteristics of gifted individuals.
http://www.ri.net/gifted_talented/character.html
|
|
Average Rating:No rating available
This checklist hosted by the Austega.com webite provides a characteristics checklist for teachers and parents looking for signs of giftedness in young children. Characteristic traits are listed by broad category of giftedness and include general intellectual ability, specific academic aptitude, creative thinking and production, leadership, psychomotor ability and visual and performing arts.
http://www.austega.com/gifted/characteristics.htm
|
|
Average Rating:
Gifted children or students may exhibit many, but not all, of these characteristics in any one list. Those who consistently exhibit the behaviors have a strong possibility that they are "gifted".
http://watertown.k12.sd.us/gate/chartics.htm
|
|
Average Rating:
This is a list of characteristics of Gifted/Creative children from the National Foundation for Gifted and Creative Children.
http://www.nfgcc.org/character.htm
|
|
Average Rating:
This link is a list of general characteristics of giftedness. Individuals that are gifted may not show all of the characteristics. Additionally, in recent years, more studies have been completed on giftedness.
http://add.about.com/od/basicsofaddadhd/l/blcharactgifted.htm
|
|
Average Rating:
This article deals with the identification of mathematically talented children. It also addresses different instructional approaches, with a complete breakdown of educational strategies.
http://www.kidsource.com/kidsource/content/math_talent.html
|
|
Average Rating:
This website is an online questionnaire that helps parents identify their child’s learning style. A parent answers a questionnaire to help them learn about their child’s strengths and weaknesses.
http://webster.commnet.edu/faculty/~simonds/styles/intro2.htm
|
| |
Show All 25 Resources
|
| |
|
See all 14 Resources
|
|
Average Rating:No rating available
Through some 500 excerpts quoted in the text, Mishow Piechowski illustrates how the intensities and sensitivities of bright young chilren make them more alive, more creative, and more in love with the world than others.
http://www.mellowout.us
|
|
Average Rating:No rating available
An expert on ADD, Stephen Garber provides a guide for coping with this disorder by helping to answer the questions: Do I have a correct diagnosis of ADHD? What kind of medication might be helpful? What else can and should I do to help myself or my child deal with this problem? In addition, this book includes a complete checklist of ADHD symptoms, charts, work sheets and a comprehensive list of valuable resources and support groups.
http://www.addwarehouse.com/shopsite_sc/store/html/product100.html
|
|
Average Rating:
This is a comprehensive resource guide from Jacquelyn Saunders for parents of young gifted children. It contains information on identification, early enrichment activities, school placement issues, and parenting strategies.
http://www.librarything.com/work/798052
|
|
Average Rating:
Norbert Weiner's out of print partial autobiography of his childhood, youth and education. Includes long discussions and reflections on what it is like to be a child prodigy; radical acceleration; parenting styles; family relationships; publicity; and the social development of child prodigies.
|
|
Average Rating:No rating available
In this book, author H. J. Eysenck considers the role of intelligence, social status, gender, and many other factors that have been linked with genius and creativity. His theory traces creativity from DNA through personality to special cognitive processes to genius. Eysenck puts forth the argument is that it may be the fact that they believe that they are geniuses that make them so.
http://www.cambridge.org/catalogue/catalogue.asp?isbn=0521485088
|
|
Average Rating:
Winner's book focuses on both intellectual and artistic giftedness. This book has a developmental psychology perspective, but also addresses educational issues. Of particular note to those who work with the profoundly gifted, Winner makes a case that public funding for gifted programs should be focused on the most profoundly gifted students first, with higher classroom standards the means for meeting the needs of the moderately gifted.
|
|
Average Rating:No rating available
This in-depth handbook examines the categories of exceptionality most often described in educational, behavioral, and health practices. Here, editors Vicki L. Schwean and Donald H. Saklofske compile valuable information from leading authorities in the medical, psychological and educational fields.
http://www.springer.com/west/home/new+&+forthcoming+titles+(default)?SGWID=4-40356-22-33182285-0
|
|
Average Rating:
This practical resource offers up-to-date information for building an effictive, defenssible identification process. It acts as a hands-on, research-based guide for identifying gifted and talented children.
http://www.alibris.com/search/detail.cfm?chunk=25&mtype=&qtit=Identifying%20Gifted%20Students%20%20A%20Practical%20Guide&S=R&bid=8787745990&pbest=&pqtynew=&page=1&matches=1&qsort=r
|
|
Average Rating:No rating available
Prepared by 100 researchers and program developers from 24 different countries, the chapters of this second edition provide authentic, state-of-the-art, international perspectives on all aspects of identification and development of giftedness and talent.
|
|
Average Rating:
Dr. Tracy Cross brings together years of columns from Gifted Child Today, which combine his knowledge of research on the social and emotional aspects of giftedness along with his experience, resulting in a readable, useful look into these unique students. Read an excerpt.
|
| |
Show All 14 Resources
|
| |
|
|
Average Rating:No rating available
This research article discusses the abilities and behaviors of mathematically gifted children. The authors findings revealed that parents can identify young children owe are advanced in mathematic reasoning.
http://depts.washington.edu/cscy/old/resources/Kindergartners.pdf
|
|
| |