While this is obviously a made - up conversation ~ based on my
experience with gifted children ~ I am sure some of these concerns - as well as others - would come up.
Parents with a gifted child who seek professional guidance are more likely able to support their child and help them succeed academically, socially and emotionally.
Life with a gifted child is not always easy, but it can be made easier when parents understand their gifted children and what lies behind their children's behavior.
Parents, educators, and other concerned adults
involved with gifted children should know the legal framework in which the education and related services are set forth.
Parents who spend
time with their gifted child are more able to tune into their child's interests and can respond by offering appropriate enrichment opportunities.
This study describes the intervention
with a gifted child with ASD in the social cognition area based on «social reading» technique, described above [19].
Again, this trait is
keeping with a gifted child's ability to do something that is beyond his years and with incredible skill and passion.
What appeared to be another family
drama with a gifted child and a single mother becomes something completely different by the one - minute mark.
Parents, educators, and other concerned adults
involved with gifted children should know the legal framework in which the education and related services are established.
Parents who spend
time with their gifted child are more able to tune in to their child's interests and respond by offering appropriate educational enrichment opportunities.
Why should we be surprised that a public education system that is failing the needs of even the average student would not be able to
deal with the gifted child?
Teacher educators and researchers could write about their specialty areas; teachers could write about activities for parents to
do with their gifted children at home or curricular ideas for other teachers (particularly important during the current trend toward inclusive education); and parents could write about their personal experiences that were positive learning opportunities (Lewis & Karnes, 1997).
As a teacher of elementary gifted students, I became interested in Operation Houndstooth while researching Renzulli's work, however, the above scenario and other similar examples
with gifted children in past years have prompted me to delve deeper into the theory and available research in the hopes of finding answers.
It all comes down to using what works
best with gifted children ~ which stems from effectively educating teachers about working with the giftedthe topic of my next blog.
For the gifted child: Reading is often an
issue with gifted children, as many can read so early and so well; its often difficult to find books that are appropriate both in reading level and topic.
Without getting too detailed, that year, I worked
with gifted children who had serious moral dilemmas, socialization problems, motivation issues, and other challenges.
He travels to Wales to find that this Victorian gothic
pile with its gifted children exists in a 1943 time loop and its «peculiars» are now menaced by the dementor - ish «hollows» led by Samuel L Jackson with Marilyn Manson eyes, and there's a freaky finale in Blackpool, of all surreal places.
Based on my experience of working
closely with gifted children, including screening them, as well research in the field, these are some characteristics or traits that could serve as a red flag when it comes to spotting the gifted child.
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The Association for the Gifted (TAG) A division of The Council for Exceptional Children, TAG plays a major part in helping both professionals and parents work more
effectively with gifted children.
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And inevitably, this is what happens in our schools: The educational facet of giftedness is addressed, although insufficiently much of the time, while the emotional, social and sensory traits of giftedness are unknown by most educators
unfamiliar with gifted children.
Although these topics didn't make it into my book, they are worth sharing because they are often that gifted lagniappe that
comes with our gifted children.
Only when they were actually involved in training, when they had become familiar with many of the empirical research studies documenting the positive academic and social effects of acceleration, and when they had been able to meet and
talk with gifted children who had been accelerated, did the teachers» attitudes towards grouping and acceleration begin to improve.
I work in the Roseville, Rocklin, Folsom, and Rancho Cordova communities to provide support and services related to giftedness, including coaching parents and teachers on communication and managing the over-excitabilities and asynchronous
development with gifted children.
This article described an intervention
implemented with a gifted child with ASD to sensitize him with respect to some social cognition abilities which had been diagnosed as markedly deficitary, such as mentalistic reasoning and affect recognition from emotional expression.
This presentation posits a theory of the psychosocial development of gifted children that will incorporate the myriad socioemotional concepts in the field of giftedness within an Ericksonian framework to help guide parents, teachers, and
clinicians with gifted children's optimal growth and development.
She is a founder of» Scholar Search Associates, a firm that establishes relationships between schools and organizations supporting and advocating for
families with gifted children.
I came on here to see if their are other children like my son, just to get some advise on what you should
do with gifted children.
In all honesty, it's a challenging task as teachers are faced with curriculum imposed by non-experts in gifted education, principals and teachers unfamiliar with what practices work
best with gifted children, time constraints, and lack of resources.
For a collection of psychologists
experienced with gifted children, many of whom offer the Stanford - Binet form L - M as a supplemental measure for gifted children, and are all recommended for their work with the gifted, visit our sister page Psychologists familiar with the Gifted.
Buying toys for gifted children can often be more challenging as the manufacturer's recommended age ranges often don't match up
with a gifted child's abilities and interests.
If you find a psychologist through a school system, make sure that he or she has experience
with gifted children.
One of the challenges for parents
with a gifted child is to encourage them to develop a range of interest outside the academic sphere that not only rounds them out but stops them from being isolated from their peers.