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As well as being the teacher of your gifted child, I am the mother of three gifted kids of my own. On this page, I have taken the liberty of including articles which I have found helpful in understanding and parenting my own gifted children, in the hope that they might be of some use to you. There is also a handout I prepared for teachers attending a workshop on motivating gifted children, which may be a useful resource if you are faced with a child who is demotivated at school (or home!) - even though it is aimed at teachers, many of the ideas are applicable to the home front too.

I will add to these articles over time, as I come across resources which might be useful.

Feel free to post comments or questions on the discussion page.

Sue



This video is an excellent introduction to gifted kids and what it means to be gifted:

[|Being gifted]

This video is a lecture by Dr James Webb, psychologist and founder of SENG (Social and Emotional Needs of the Gifted), on assessment of gifted children. Video is about an hour, but well worth watching:

[|Accurate Assessment? Asperger's and Other Common Misdiagnoses and Dual Diagnoses of Gifted Children]

This article shares the experience of being exceptionally gifted from the points of view of the child, the father and the mother:

Through His Eyes













A blog with good pointers for both parents and teachers: Top 10 Ways to Annoy a Gifted Child

And from the NZ Ministry of Education, the updated handbook for schools can be downloaded from the following link (always good to know what teachers are being told when you are a parent!):

MOE Handbook for Schools


 * USEFUL INTERNET SITES: **

[|www.hoagiesgifted.com] - an American site with links to many articles and sites.

[|www.giftedchildren.org.nz] - the website of the NZ Association for Gifted Children. Runs a parent forum with threads on schooling options, parenting, and early childhood, among others.

[|www.sengifted.org] - another American site, specialising in the social and emotional needs of gifted children - has excellent articles.

[|www.dukegiftedletter.com] - letters and articles for parents from Duke University, which also runs a Talent Identification Programme.

[|Visual Spatial Learning style] - this link will take you to Part 1 of a video series on visual spatial learners - many gifted children have this particular learning style and those who do are often not identified as gifted because they do not easily learn the traditional academic skills of reading and writing. Parts 2 and 3 can be accessed from Part 1. Jeffrey Freed is the expert who presents this series - he is well respected for his work with visual spatial and dyslexic learners.

@http://everydayintensity.com/welcome/ - this link is to a blog which has great items on intensities, creativity, perfectionism and other things related to giftedness.

daretodifferentiate.wikispaces.com If you are a teacher looking at this wiki, then here is another wiki which you might find valuable in your teaching of gifted kids - it is an excellent source of theory and exemplars of differentiation tools and strategies!

http://welcometothedeepend.com - Stephanie Tolan's blog on things gifted - wonderful!