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"AEGUS, The Association for the Education of Gifted Underachieving Students, serves as an advocate for this special population. For over 19 years, we have provided a forum for ideas and interventions aimed at helping these twice-exceptional students reach their full and considerable potential. With members worldwide, we use our newsletter, position papers, bibliographies, resource directory and annual and regional conferences to further these educational goals."
http://www.aegus1.org/
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This brief article presents the findings of a study consisting of interviews with 152 mid-Atlantic middle and high school African-American students. A number of conclusions are drawn from the study, including the underrepresentation of these students in gifted programs, difficulty in identification, and the need for partnerships between home-student-school to promote achievement.
http://www.gifted.uconn.edu/nrcgt/ford3.html
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This article by Andrew S. Mahoney discusses the topic of suicide and lists out some of the signals of suicide. "When discussing the topic of suicide among the gifted population, one runs into the same divergent, often unexplainable, ambiguity associated with this special population. Though there is no conclusive evidence that the gifted are more prone to suicide than the non-gifted (Delisle, 1986), suicide among the gifted is a serious issue."
http://www.counselingthegifted.com/articles/giftedsuicide.html
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This article explores some of the reasons for underachievement as well as things parents should watch for and be concerned about. The article also offers eight suggestions for parents on helping children to not be underachievers.
http://pta.fen.com/article/0,1120,59-11162,00.html?relinks
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This article looks at who 'underachievers' historically are and what one urban school district is doing to support these young people to break their cycles of underachievement.
http://www.sp.uconn.edu/~nrcgt/news/spring02/sprng023.html
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This article examines the label of "underachiever" given to some highly gifted children. According to the article, underachievement is an adult term used to describe a set of troublesome child behaviors that don't match some preconceived notions of how high a gifted child is supposed to perform. Underachievement is a hurtful and disrespectful term that is defined differently by every person who uses it. Underachievement is a myth, existing in the eye of the beholder who deems it to be there.
http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Crete/1019/Interests/delisle.html
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"Gifted and talented (GT) underachievers pose special challenges to parents and educators. They are quick thinking, quick to criticize, and quick to justify their behavior (even when that behavior is inappropriate by commonly acceptable standards). Like most underachievers at all levels, GT underachievers tend to have lowered self-esteem, confusion about their development and about why they are acting as they are, difficulty making appropriate choices, and a sense of being overwhelmed. However rather than using their considerable intellect t...
http://www.appliedmotivation.com/gifted_and_talented_underachieve.htm
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This Prufrock Press article describes underachievement in gifted children, distinguishing between the measurement of potential and actual achievement. Author Barbara Hoover Schultz seeks to better understand, recognize and reverse gifted underachievement by reviewing related definitions, characteristics, causes and available interventions. This study proves that there are many different factors for gifted children not realizing their full potential.
http://www.prufrock.com/client/client_pages/GCT_articles/Gifted_Underachievement.cfm
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"This article presents an example within clinical counseling of a highly gifted 19-year-old male student whose academic capabilities fall in the 99.9th percentile. He entered therapy with a desire to understand his presenting problem of academic decline over the past several years of high school as well as to deal with the impact of his decline, both on his emotional development and his academic future. An analyzed tapescript is presented in which the therapist leads him to recognize and confront his defenses and discover the depth of his emoti...
http://www.counselingthegifted.com/articles/underachieve.html
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Underachievers often have unmet needs for "Safety and Security" or "Love and Belongingness." These are part of humanistic psychologist Abraham Maslow's hierarchy of needs. Accordingly, what is generally thought of as achievement cannot be reached until these lower level needs are met.
http://members.aol.com/svennord/ed/uag.htm
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This website by the University of Oregon's Teaching Effectiveness program answers many common questions about student motivation. Although not specific to the profoundly gifted population, many of the answers are applicable. Some answers are tailored to teachers, others are appropriate for homeschoolers.
http://tep.uoregon.edu/resources/faqs/motivatingstudents/motivating.html
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Dr. Carol Strip Whitney presents concepts and techniques to counteract many de-motivating factors gifted children are susceptible to. These factors can lead to depression and academic underachievement. Whitney, along with help from Gretchen Hirsch, offers helpful advice to help spark the motivation in your gifted child or student.
http://www.giftedbooks.com/productdetails.asp?id=111
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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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First published in the 1960s, this book has been updated numerous times to reflect the latest insight on the factors that can cause children to fail. Author John Holt concludes that students learn strategies for appearing to know content, rather than the content itself. Parents of gifted children may find this book helpful as underachievement is a common issue in the gifted community.
http://www.perseusbooksgroup.com/perseus/book_detail_redirect.do?imprintCid=DC&isbn=0201484021
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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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