* The quotes used were all found online and were either in response to an
article about gifted children or a parent who said her child was gifted.
If you want to learn
more about gifted children (and other family members) and want a good laugh while you're at it, then this is the book to read.
Teachers, who have already been in the classroom for some time, also lack
knowledge about gifted children - and worse, may develop negative stereotypes about them.
Believe it or not, there are real downsides to being gifted beyond knowing the resentment others
feel about your gifted children and yourself, and openly mock you.
GT World - Special email list is an on - line support community
about any gifted child who has a learning disability (LD) and / or other neurological problem (s) that interfere with the child's ability to reach the full potential of his or her giftedness.
While parenting a gifted child is similar to parenting other children in most ways — they are human, after all — there are also many things I wish I would have
known about gifted children before I became the parent of one.
Historically, schools have done a largely inadequate job of identifying and serving gifted students, and this has fed and perpetuated the damaging universal
misperception about gifted children.
I've read your comments on forums and on
posts about gifted children, and your feelings towards parents of gifted children are unfortunately apparent: *
The original quotes used in this presentation were gathered from parents of gifted children who answered the question, «If you could tell someone — a teacher, neighbor or friend — just one sentence, one
idea about gifted children and that one idea was going to stick with them, what would you tell them?»
What We Have
Learned About Gifted Children 1979 - 2007 gives a concise summary of those characteristics noted in clinical study of gifted children at the Gifted Development Center... some are intuitive, some may come as a surprise!
Please use the page name «Hoagies» Gifted Education Page», and send us a notice of the page the link is on - we're always on the lookout for great new resources for and
about our gifted children.
Silverman, Linda, «What We Have Learned
About Gifted Children 1979 - 2002,» Hoagies» Gifted Education Page (2002)(Now available as What We Have Learned About Gifted Children 1979 - 2007)