Summit Center provides educational and psychological assessments, consultation, and treatment for children, their parents, and families. Summit works with all kids – including those who are gifted, those with learning challenges, and those who are both gifted and have challenges.
Supporting the Emotional Needs of the Gifted (SENG) is a national organization which seeks to inform gifted individuals, their families, and the professionals who work with them, about the unique social and emotional needs of gifted persons. SENG supports programs that foster in gifted individuals the mental health and social competence necessary for them to be free to choose ways to develop and express their abilities and talents fully.
Talent Development Institute (TDI) is a non-profit organization dedicated to supporting and enriching the lives of gifted children and their families in Vermont and beyond. They strive to provide unforgettable experiences and valuable assistance to facilitate the growth of gifted and talent children, both as learners and as people. In addition, they advocate for gifted youth in Vermont and provide leadership in gifted education.
Their central focus is the TDI Summer Camp, a pair of week-long programs where campers will find enriching educational opportunities, exciting and engaging activities, an inclusive community of peers, and so much more. They will find new passions, develop learning and social skills, create life-long friendships, and have a lot of fun along the way!
Through hands-on problem solving and encounters with women role models in science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM), AAUW Tech Trek helps girls see their futures while having nonstop fun. This one-week summer camp is backed by AAUW’s research and designed to make STEM fields exciting and accessible to girls in middle school — the age when girls’ participation in these fields statistically drops. For many girls, the weeklong camp sparks their curiosity and places them on a path toward success.
Terry Bradley is a gifted education consultant specializing in the social and emotional aspects of giftedness. Her services include a full-day workshop training for school personnel and mental health professionals on facilitating discussion groups for gifted K-12 students; a professional development training on the affective needs of the gifted; and a presentation for parents on what to know when raising gifted youth. She presents on gifted education with a focus on social and emotional needs of students, leads district inservices, facilitates student discussion groups and parent support groups, and is a presenter at regional and national gifted conferences.
The Amend Group provides comprehensive psychological services including assessment and evaluation, consultations, counseling, and therapy for children, adolescents, and their families.
Parent and educational consultations for gifted, 2e children, and homeschoolers are also provided. These educational consultations are offered via secure video link for flexibility and privacy.
“We live in a self-centered world, despite the call from employers and thought leaders for more cooperation and compassion. Empathy, or the ability to understand other people’s thoughts and emotions from their point of view, is a vital component of cooperation and necessary in our increasingly diverse world. “The Caring Child: Raising Empathetic and Emotionally Intelligent Children” by Christine Fonseca, pulls together the latest research from positive psychology to provide parents specific tools to help their children develop healthy empathy and emotional intelligence. Presented in an easy-to-read, conversational style, the book uses a combination of evidence-based strategies, real-world examples, and role-playing scenarios to provide parents with the tools needed to develop these important skills. It also includes specific strategies to address diverse populations and LGBTQ youth.
The Center for Connection’s integrative, collaborative network of independent professionals represents a unique model in direct response to the needs expressed by families. CFC’s connection-based model is based on providing more comprehensive services for families, with independent professionals ranging from psychotherapy to parent education to neuropsychological assessments, from physical health and educational therapy to occupational therapy, and more.
The Daimon Institute for the Highly Gifted provides psychotherapy and educational consulting to support the overall development of exceptionally and profoundly gifted people. Located in Surrey, British Columbia, Canada and easily accessible to patients from Washington State, their practice implements the Integral Practice for the Gifted model, developed and refined by P. Susan Jackson. The model addresses all aspects of the gifted individual: intellectual, emotional, moral, spiritual, social and physical.
The Fringy Bit is a website started by the parents of three “fringy” kids. They use this term to describe children who are gifted and those who experience other forms of neuro-diversity. Through their website, they have created a blog and podcast, focusing on creating a community for the parents of gifted children.
Young readers of this upbeat and informative book by Judy Galbraith, MA learn how to cope with high expectations, perfectionism, labels, bullying, friendships, and more.
The Governor’s Program for Gifted Children is seven weeks of academic enrichment, artistic opportunity, and friendship. A residential program at McNeese State University since 1959, the GPGC is the oldest and most comprehensive enrichment program for gifted students in Louisiana. With an approach that aims to develop the whole child, the GPGC provides for the intellectual, creative, and social needs of gifted children.
The Quad Manhattan is an inclusive meeting place for Twice Exceptional kids – a place where social and executive functioning “life” skills are developed through fun! Twice Exceptional or 2e children have intellectual or creative gifts, and also have lagging social or executive functioning skills. Developed by experts in medicine, child psychology and gifted special education, the Quad uses kids’ strengths and passions to hide skill development in creative and engaging after-school classes and activities during our summer camp.
Dr. Grace Malonai and others at TheraThrive specialize in counseling gifted adults, teens and children, and their parents in the San Francisco Bay Area through issues of high sensitivity, overexcitabilities, twice exceptionality, perfectionism, and other gifted traits.
TiLT Parenting is an online resource created by a mother of a twice-exceptional child to help herself and other parents navigate raising a gifted child, specifically those with ADHD, learning differences, anxiety, autism, etc. TiLT hopes to create an online community for the parents of gifted and neurologically atypical children through their blog and weekly podcast, as well as to help parents stay informed on the latest research regarding gifted and twice-exceptional children.
Twice Exceptional Children’s Advocacy, Inc. (TECA) was founded in 2003 by a group of parents seeking to identify, support and unite twice exceptional (2e) students and their families. TECA’s mission is to help parents understand what twice exceptionality is and help them identify whether their children are 2e. TECA assists parents in finding and advocating for the education and resources their children require and provides a strong, vibrant, accepting community for 2e children and their families.
