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The Dana Foundation is a private philanthropic foundation with principal interests in science, health, and education. Visit the BrainWeb section to find general information about the brain and current brain research, as well as links to validated sites related to more than 25 brain disorders. Brainy Kids Online offers children, teens, parents and teachers links to games, labs, excellent education resources and lesson plans.
http://www.dana.org/
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Hosted by the Learn in Freedom website, this page provides a comprehensive list of IQ and human intelligence.
http://learninfreedom.org/iqbooks.html
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Gifted children offer special challenges in thinking skills development. Their gifts and talents cause us to believe that they already are good thinkers and that our work is to provide educational and developmental experiences that expose them to greater breadth and depth of content. In other words, we need to give them more to think about. But contemporary theory and research on the brain, intelligence, learning styles, etc. indicate that we have areas of natural strength and ability and other areas where our abilities are in need of developme...
http://www.penngifted.org/pubs/thinking.cfm
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Founded in 1967, the Integra Foundation Integra is a Children's Mental Health Center leading in the treatment of vulnerable children and youth with learning disabilities. The health center is dedicated to improving social, emotional and behavioral outcomes through a range of specialized therapeutic, family-centered services, community education and research.
http://www.integra.on.ca/index.htm
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This website is inviting to the science enthusiast of any age who wants to learn more about the nervous system. The home page opens up to the 12 sections that are full of information, articles, activities, games, lessons and software for the kids, but also the parents and teachers. There is an extensive directory of resources that include annotated sites for the brain and nervous system. Other areas include kid's games (word searches, bingo, songs, jokes, coloring pages, etc.) and activities/experiments (testing reflexes for right-handed vs. le...
http://faculty.washington.edu/chudler/neurok.html
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The Children of the Code project (www.childrenofthecode.org) is pleased to announce the release of our interview with Dr. Sally Shaywitz. Dr. Shaywitz is a professor of Pediatric Neurology at Yale University and the author of "Overcoming Dyslexia". She is a dedicated and passionate neuroscientist focused on helping children and families overcome the pain and strain of reading difficulties
http://www.childrenofthecode.org/interviews/shaywitz.htm
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Students, parents and excecutives can all benefit from this website. It features expert commentary on the latest brain enhancement research, as well as brain teasers, brain art and product reviews.
http://www.smart-kit.com/
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In this book by Susan Keller-Mathers and Kristin Puccio, children in the primary grades can learn and apply a wide variety of powerful thinking tools for generating options for focusing their thinking. Creative problem solving tools include brainstorming, braindrawing, forced relationships, and the evaluation matrix.
http://www.creativelearning.com/CPSbookList.htm
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Dean Keith Simonton examines uncommon people: those creators and leaders whose impact on their own and later times has been so great that they deserve the label "genius." A simultaneous look at creativity and leadership is itself uncommon, and the comparison shows that when creators and leaders act at genius levels they have many similarities. What it is that causes them to stand out above others? Simonton believes that if we subject the lives of the eminent to scientific analysis we may be able to discover general laws of history and social be...
http://www.alibris.com/search/search.cfm?chunk=25&mtype=&wtit=Genius%20Creativity%20%20%20Leadership
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In this book, David Sousa examines why traditional talent-identification techniques are inadequate (and often inaccurate), and presents methods that will allow you to identify giftedness and talent potential with greater accuracy than ever before.
http://www.sagepub.com/booksProdDesc.nav?prodId=Book225802
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This book by Marian Diamond and Janet Hopson, is primarily aimed at parents and educators, but it is an extremely valuable resource for anyone (gifted children included) who are interested in brain development and the influence of appropriate enrichment.
http://www.writerswrite.com/journal/feb99/nonf2.htm
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How is the body involved in learning from infancy right through adulthood? Physical activity is crucial. A neuroscientist explains why and gives simple physical exercises that can increase anyone's learning power immediately. It explores brain development, neurological effects of TV, nutrition, stress, and causes of the growing plague of learning disabilities. Author Carla Hannaford.
http://www.evolvefish.com/fish/product425.html
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This is one of two workbooks by authors DeFina and Feifer which discuss both language-based and non-language-based disorders from a brain-based education model of learning. They are intended for school psychologists, occupational therapists, speech pathologists, special educators and school administrators. They use cutting-edge research from the neurosciences to understand the various brain mechanisms involved in written disorders and reading disorders in children.
http://www.retctrpress.com/proddetail.php?prod=18BNeuroRead
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This book offers insights into the intellectual and emotional development of exceptional children. Contributors explore the nature of giftedness and how to recognize it in youngsters; the complexities of the creative process; standardized tests and their effectiveness in asserting potential; and developmental theories and how they relate to the identification of gifted children. Several chapters also examine young prodigies and the diversity of personalities and talents that exist among the gifted.
http://doi.contentdirections.com/mr/greenwood.jsp?doi=10.1336/089391956X
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