Giftedness Resources – Professionals

To many people, the word gifted means smart and high achieving; but not all gifted people fit that description. Actually, there is little agreement on what giftedness is and who qualifies as gifted. To help get yourself up to speed on the gifted side of 2e, click on the resources below.

Articles

• Gifted Ed. Students Are More Than Just Really Smart Kids
  
• Gifted Education Strategies
  
• “Gifted” Re-examined
  
• Gifted Students: Recommendations for Teachers
  
• Helping Parents Understand their Profoundly Gifted Children
  
• How to Identify, Understand and Teach Gifted Children
  
• How to Spot a Gifted Student
  
• The Impact of Giftedness on Psychological Well-Being
  
• Intelligence Denied
  
• Key Considerations in Identifying and Supporting Gifted and Talented Learners
  
• Late Blooming Gifted Children
  
• Neuroscience of Giftedness: Physiology of the Brain
  
• The Role of Parents in Helping Gifted Children with Learning Problems
  
• Six Strategies for Challenging Gifted Learners
  
• Ten myths about gifted students and programs for gifted
  
• Three Models for Understanding Gifted Education
  
• Tips for Teachers: Successful strategies for teaching gifted learners
  
• Underachievement in Gifted Children
  
• Understanding Emotional Complexity of a Gifted Child
  
• Understanding the Social and Emotional Needs of Gifted Children
  
• What Is Gifted and Why Does It Matter?
  
• What is Giftedness?
  
• What it Means to Teach Gifted Learners Well

Websites

• Davidson Institute Gifted Database (a collection of articles on a range of gifted and 2e-related topics)
  
• Hoagie’s Gifted (wide variety of gifted topics)
  
• National Association for Gifted Children (NAGC)
  
• SENG (Supporting Emotional Needs of the Gifted)

Social Media

• Dr. Devon’s Blog (articles on twice-exceptional and gifted learners by psychologist Devon MacEachron)
  
• Gifted Challenges (perspectives about giftedness from clinical psychologist Gail Post)
  
• Gifted Issues Discussion Forum–Twice Exceptional (a Davidson Institute forum on twice-exceptionality)
  
• Mind Matters (discussions with leaders in fields such as psychology and education, with an emphasis on giftedness and twice-exceptionality)
  

Publications

• Different Minds: Gifted Children with ADHD, Asperger Syndrome, and other Learning Deficits
  
• Differentiation for Gifted Learners: Going Beyond the Basics
  
• Giftedness 101
  
• Gifted Child Today Journal
  
• How the Gifted Brain Learns
  
• Misdiagnosis and Dual Diagnoses of Gifted Children and Adults: ADHD, Bipolar, OCD, Asperger’s, Depression, and Other Disorders
  
• Re-Forming Gifted Education: Matching the Program to the Child
  
• Some of My Best Friends are Books: Guiding Gifted Readers from Preschool to High School
  
• Teaching Gifted Kids in the Regular Classroom
  
• Twice-Exceptional Gifted Children: Understanding, Teaching, and Counseling Gifted Students
  
• Understanding the Link Between Empathy and Anxiety in Gifted Children