Having a gifted child can be exhilarating as well as demanding. It could also feel lonesome at times due to lack of similar gifted children and families to connect with. Gifted children need customized educational choices due to their unique learning abilities. Some children may suffer from Learning Disabilities with giftedness as in 'Twice Exceptional'.
Gifted is also defined differently by people, and a word that is widely misinterpreted. Reading some of the gifted articles, websites, books, and also observing your child and learning to understand his or her unique gifts can be a life long journey.
These following link and resources hopefully offers you with much needed information, support and guidance to help you understand your unique gifted child.
Read about our journey here at PG and Homeschooling.
Here are a few links and resources:
Davidson Gifted Database The Davidson Institute's mission is to recognize, nurture and support profoundly intelligent young people. The database is a gateway to resources for and about gifted kids.
Hoagies Gifted Page The 'all things gifted' page.
Gifted Articles EXCELLENT gifted articles, websites, book lists and so on. By Stephanie Tolan.
SENG Articles Supporting the emotional needs of the gifted.
From SENG page.
Learning About Gifted Children (10 articles) |
Social and Emotional Issues (37 articles) |
Parenting the Gifted (17 articles) |
Gifted Adults (7 articles) |
Multicultural Gifted Issues (2 articles) |
Director's Corner (updated monthly with articles from The SENG Update email newsletter) |
Articles in Languages Other Than English (2 articles) |
For Health Professionals (2 articles) |
Perspectives from Gifted Children and Adults (3 articles) |
Ask SENG (5 questions and answers) |
Gifted Articles: Here are some articles on Gifted, gifted education, issues, challenges etc. (Updated Nove, 2009)
- Beautiful Minds
- Beginning Brilliance by Stephanie Tolan
- Creativity and Flow Psychology
- Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience
- GDC(Gifted Development Center) articles on Giftedness
- Help Your Child Find the Flow
- Homeschooling PG Kids by Kathryn Finn
- Myths About Gifted Children
- Nature or Nurture by Stephanie Tolan
- Not All Children are Gifted
- One Profoundly Gifted Kid's Story by Deborah Ruf
- Performing Arts for EG and PG Children by Beth Wright
- Talent Development/Personal Growth
- The Psychology of Flow
- What we have learned about Gifted Children -30th Anniversary-1979-2009 Linda Silverman, Gifted Development Center
Additional Resources:
- More articles by Stephanie Tolan
- Articles from SENG(Social Emotional Needs of the Gifted)
- Gifted Education Articles from College of William Mary
- Articles from Gifted Education Pages: Hoagies
- Educator's Guild from Davidson Institute
- Gifted Articles Galore from Davidson Institute Database
- About.com's popular Gifted Articles
- Articles from Gifted Child Quarterly
- Gifted Homeschoolers Forum
- Articles from Talent Development
- Gifted Children/Gifted Education Articles from Prufrock
- Articles from Gifted Development Center
- Articles from Duke Gifted Letter
I am listing a few of the gifted websites, mailing lists and other gifted resources here. I will be updating this page often. (Updated 10/23/09)
- Gifted Homeschoolers Forum an active online forum that consists of members from all over the world. Check out the main website for details on the mailing list, and also on several articles on gifted, 2e etc.
- Davidson Institute for PG kids an institute that offers support and a thriving community for families with profoundly gifted kids in the US.
- Cogito An active online community for talented youth. Need to be a member to be part of the forums. Plenty of resources to access on the site.
- TAG PROJECT Many Talented and Gifted lists in this site, and can serve different purposes based on what you are looking for. Tagmax(homeschooling gifted families), TAGPDQ(pg kids and families) and many more.
- GT World This is an online support community for gifted families.
- Homeschooling Mensans Mailing list for families homeschooling gifted kids.
- SF Gifted (BAGHS) An active, thriving resource for SF BAY Area LOCAL gifted families. To be part of this community, one needs to be a Bay area family, and HOMESCHOOLING OR SERIOUSLY CONSIDERING HOMESCHOOLING, and needs to have an interest in contributing and participating to both IRL and/or ONLINE community; this is meant for developing a growing community and network for the gifted children and their families. Check the site for more details.
- Bay Area Gifted List a wonderful supportive, low volume discussion community list for families with both schooled and homeschooled gifted children in the SF Bay Area. This is maintained by Emily Berk, who also has a wonderful book blog resource for gifted children and adults.
- Gifted resources and regional mailing lists list of mailing lists and gifted resources in the various parts of the country.
Gifted websites:
- GT-Cybersource A huge database on gifted, pg, education resources.
- SENG (Social Emotional Needs of the Gifted) articles, resources, conferences, talks.
- Gifted Homeschooling A blog with gifted resources.
- Mensa IQ page Intelligence information, and resources.
- Gifted Education 2.0 A place for asking questions, leading discussions on the gifted, and also learning from each other.
- Hoagies Gifted The most popular gifted database that exists today. So many articles, resources, books, education information, free educational material links and resources.
- Hollingworth Center for Highly Gifted Children another site for gifted resources; this consists of articles, resource links etc.
- National Association of Gifted Children national database as well state specific resources.
- The Association for the Gifted division division of Council of Exceptional Children. Resources to nurture gifted kids.
- Unwrapping the Gifted Blog on Gifted links and resources Wonderful list of resources, with notes on each of them offer.
- Hoagies list of Talent Search Programs; list of programs all over US and elsewhere.
- Gifted and Talented Education a list of resources on gifted education.
- Uniquely Gifted Resources for gifted children with special needs.
