Educating and raising gifted children presents highly specific challenges. This book explains how parents can learn to optimize their child's potential and work with schools, spouses, friends, and specialists to create a nurturing and stable life. • Details how to find a school that satisfies a child's particular needs • Presents the ideas, thoughts, and feelings of parents in words that other parents with gifted children can identify with and understand • Provides information on the over-excitabilities and intensities of gifted children presented in a practical, straightforward way that helps the reader apply these concepts in actual strategies in their everyday lives • Identifies specific problems of parents with gifted children and outlines effective solutions to these challenges
The Joys and Challenges of Raising a Gifted Child
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The book tries to help the reader understand the different educational, emotional or social needs of various gifted children, those considered "highly-gifted" and the others who are perceived as "mildly-gifted"; children who are interested ...
A Field Guide to Gifted Students is a practical manual to the unique characteristics of gifted and advanced learners.
This is one of the books in Prufrock Press' popular Practical Strategies Series in Gifted Education.
Filled with useful strategies and poignant personal accounts, this book gives you the “meat” of what you need to prevent those students who need to be challenged and engaged from slipping through the cracks.
Delisle, J. R. (1986). Gifted kids speak out: Hundreds of kids 6-13 talk about school, friends, their families, and the future. Minneapolis: Free Spirit Publishing. ... Giftedness and Disabilities Baum, S. M., Owen, S. V., Appendix 239.
This academic edition of the book includes features for the academic setting, including an advance organizer for each chapter and classroom dis
"Raising Gifted Kids" will help parents understand and cope with the obstacles they face in raising a gifted child, and help them make the best choices for their son's or daughter's growth and happiness.