Lynne Azpeitia, MA, Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist, helps multi-talented, creative adults, entrepreneurs and business owners live life more fully through understanding themselves, their gifts, and the world. Under Lynne’s guidance they achieve personal, professional and creative success by learning how to make the most of their talents, interests and abilities.
The book Giftedness 101 offers thorough experience and knowledge-based insights to those who are already or are contemplating serving the social emotional needs of these children in the future, but also those who profess to educate future teachers, those who would venture out into classrooms charged with the teaching and many others besides.
This paper by Michael Piechowski is a study of three lives in transformation. The lives of these three gifted individuals illustrate characteristics of transforming growth: inner conflict, acceptance, willingness to serve, surrender, and inner peace. As a result of their far reaching inner transformation, they discovered on their own the transpersonal principle of nonseparateness. These cases illustrate in great depth than was previously available the higher levels in Dabrowski’s theory of emotional development.
Giftedness Knows No Boundaries podcast by National Association for Gifted Children (NAGC) are for parents, teachers, school support personnel, and the academic community providing brief insights on research, policies, and practices that support gifted and talented children as they reach for their personal best.
Global #gtchat Powered by the Texas Association for the Gifted and Talented is a weekly chat on Twitter that takes place on Fridays at 7PM ET/6PM CT & 4 PM PT in the U.S. Find your time zone here. On the third Sunday of each month, #gtchat moves to 4 PM ET /3 PM CT and 1 PM PT in the U.S. (your time zone here) to accommodate the schedules of those who are unable to attend on Fridays. For 1 hour, parents, educators, advocates and experts in the field of gifted and talented gather to share resources, links, authentic life experiences and insights about gifted issues.
Greater Los Angeles Gifted Children’s Association’s (GLA-GCA) purpose is to provide educators, parents, and the community with professional development, activities and events for meeting the academic and social-emotional needs of gifted and high ability students.
GRO Gifted is a non-profit organization dedicated to promoting a comprehensive and accurate understanding of giftedness through research and outreach. While studies on human intelligence do exist, GRO’s approach is unique in its integrative nature. GRO is committed to studying giftedness from a multidisciplinary perspective to better understand physiological differences in gifted individuals and how these differences impact their lives physically, emotionally, and behaviorally. New research and articles can be accessed online directly on their website.
Middle school students who are advanced readers need challenge in their language arts curriculum. This book helps teachers and parents understand the characteristics and needs of gifted students, as well as ways in which to differentiate reading instruction for them. It also contains activities for four different trade books that will interest and challenge gifted middle school readers.
Guiding Exceptional Parents, provides services including help with Special Needs Care Navigation, Parent Coaching, or with RDI™. RDI™ helps parents learn how to teach their children the essential skills that make relationships work. Parent Coaching includes developing customized strategies to address the challenges parents face as they work to support their child. Special Needs Care Navigation helps parents of kids with ADHD, autism spectrum disorders, learning disabilities, or other unidentified challenges.
Published by James T. Webb, Elizabeth A. Meckstroth, and Stephanie S. Tolan in 1981, this book has become a classic in the field. For years, parents have referred to it as “the Dr. Spock book for parents of gifted children.” Gifted children have unique social and emotional concerns, and this book provides the guidance that parents need to support them. Each chapter features problems or issues common to gifted children and their families. Topics include communication, discipline, friends, sibling rivalry, and educational needs.
Handbook for Counselors Serving Students With Gifts and Talents provides the definitive overview of research on the general knowledge that has been amassed regarding the psychology of gifted students, introducing the reader to the varied conceptions of giftedness, issues specific to gifted children, and various intervention methods. Additionally, this handbook describes programs designed to fulfill the need these children have for challenge. With chapters authored by leading experts in the field, Handbook for Counselors Serving Students With Gifts and Talents offers a place for professionals to turn for answers to a wide variety of questions about gifted children.
Stacey Turis’s debut gives a voice to the genius yet tormented souls suffering from giftedness, ADHD, or a combination of both (a condition known as twice-exceptional) who have yet to speak out. She imparts both comedy and wisdom to help those suffering from ADHD and/or giftedness some hope in knowing they are not alone.
This article unpacks the trap of making the student who is gifted a perpetual “teacher’s helper.” The author reflects on her own past experience as a gifted student used as an aid and counters that option with more viable alternatives.
High Ability is a blog and information aggregator for parents, guardians and teachers of high ability children managed by the Ohio Association of Gifted Children (OAGC) for the benefit of high ability students in the State of Ohio.
High Ability Studies (HAS) is the official journal for the European Council for High Ability Studies. HAS provides a forum for scholars in a variety of disciplines to share their research, theory, lived experience, and ideas regarding advanced abilities and achievement. Its audience extends outside academia to parents, counselors, teachers, coaches, and mentors.
A blend of personal stories and practical strategies, scholarly articles and entertaining essays from a community of voices—parents, educators, authors, researchers, and other experts—this book addresses the joys and challenges of raising and teaching, living with and understanding exceptionally gifted kids of all ages. Recommended for any adult who wants to know more (and may be desperate to know more) about high-IQ kids and how to support them, advocate for them, and meet their social, emotional, and learning needs. Contributors include Karen Rogers, Ph.D., Carolyn Kottmeyer, Sally Reis, Ph.D., Joyce VanTassel-Baska, Ed.D., Miraca U. M. Gross, Ph.D., and many more.
