The Journal for the Education of the Gifted offers information and research on the educational and psychological needs of gifted and talented children. Devoted to excellence in educational research and scholarship, the journal acts as a forum for diverse ideas and points of view on gifted education, counseling, and parenting.
Journal of Advanced Academics (JOAA) is a quarterly journal that focuses on research that supports and enhances advanced academic achievement for students of all ages. In particular, JOAA publishes articles that feature strategies for increasing academic achievement, programs that promote high levels of academic achievement and engagement, and programs that prepare students to engage in high-level and rigorous academics.
This qualitative study explores how students use the Renzulli Learning System (RLS), an online educational profile with a matching database that provides enrichment resources. The student sample included nine identified gifted and talented seventh- and eighth-grade students in an urban school district in Connecticut. Most of the students had been using RLS for about 2 years. The students participated in an electronic questionnaire and were interviewed during two semi-structured interviews. The research questions were centered on how the students were using RLS at school. Student answers suggested several themes regarding the effectiveness of RLS as a tool for school success, its engaging quality, and selective independence.
Psychologist and best-selling author Dr. Sylvia Rimm provides solid answers and practical advice for parents of gifted children. This book includes 40 helpful keys to help children experience the joys of learning and counter a range of issues.
Negotiation, mediation, due process, and court cases. This article by Frances A. Karnes and Ronald Marquardt explains the importance of knowing appropriate state and local statutes and regulations for successful advocacy.
In this article, Susan Johnsen PhD. explains how identification and programming affect gifted service and provides some tips for parents on how to find information about the identification procedure and work with school districts to develop appropriate services for their child.
Laughing at Chaos is a blog started by Jen Torbeck Merrill, the mother of a twice-exceptional child. She is the author of If This Is a Gift, Can I Send It Back?: Surviving in the Land of the Gifted and Twice Exceptional, a book which many 2e families found extremely relatable and comforting. The topics discussed on her blog focus mainly on gifted families and gifted advocacy.
This blog provides resources for gifted children who struggle with anxiety. In addition to posts and discussions specific to giftedness and anxiety, the site also offers a purchasable “Taking Time for Me” journal to help children manage their anxiety through mindfulness and gratitude.
Gifted children and adults are often misunderstood. This book by Susan Daniels and Michael Piechowski describes different domains’ overexcitabilities, as well as strategies for dealing with children and adults who experience them. It also provides essential information on Dabrowski’s Theory of Positive Disintegration. Learn practical methods for nurturing sensitivity, intensity, perfectionism, and much more.
In Making the Choice, Corin Barsily Goodwin, Executive Director of the Gifted Homeschoolers Forum (GHF), and Mika Gustavon, MFT, discuss how giftedness and twice exceptionality (gifted plus learning differences or “invisible disabilities”) might affect the educational needs of your child. They also consider a variety of options regarding educational choices and the path to making them. Finally, they provide some questions (and hopefully answers) intended to help you make your way along this path.
Marianne is a pediatrician, homeschool educator, gifted advocate, and writer. You can follow Marianne on Facebook, Twitter, and the Huffington Post.
The MathStudio app brings unprecedented computational power to your iPhone, iPad and Apple Watch. From building simple algorithms to creating interactive plots and animations, MathStudio bridges the gap between technology and your imagination.
This book by Michael Piechowski is intended for parents and teachers of intense and sensitive young people and to serve the young people as a friendly mirror in which they can recognize themselves for who they are.
Mensa for Kids offers a variety of online resources for exceptionally bright youth.
The brightest, most creative children and adults are often being misdiagnosed with behavioral and emotional disorders such as ADHD, Oppositional-Defiant Disorder, Bipolar, OCD, or Asperger?s. Many receive unneeded medication and inappropriate counseling as a result. Physicians, psychologists, and counselors are unaware of characteristics of gifted children and adults that mimic pathological diagnoses. Six nationally prominent health care professionals describe ways parents and professionals can distinguish between gifted behaviors and pathological behaviors. These authors have brought to light a widespread and serious problem: the wasting of lives from the misdiagnosis of gifted children and adults and the inappropriate treatment that often follows.
