Articles and other information items related to gifted children
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Resources for Parents
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Sunday, 20 July 2008 |
ONE OF THE most frequent concerns of parents of gifted children is how
to respond to the heightened sensitivities their children experience.
Within my practice, parents often pose the question of how to help their
children feel confident and comfortable fulfilling their potential, whilst
deflecting the intentional and unintentional hurt to which they are sometimes
subjected.
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Resources for Teachers
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Sunday, 20 July 2008 |
Current educational research makes much of Vygotsky's theory that the potential for cognitive development is limited to a certain time span which he calls the 'zone of proximal development' (ZPD). Furthermore, full development during the ZPD depends upon full social interaction.
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Last Updated ( Sunday, 20 July 2008 )
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Resources for Parents
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Sunday, 20 July 2008 |
Alison Brogan is a pseudonym to protect the identity of the author and
her family. She describes herself: I enjoy teaching,writing and reading
and voluntary community work. I teach ADD students and ESL to adults
and run my own business. My husband is gifted, ADD, and dyslexic. I
come from a family of high achievers. My ambition is to write a book of
my experiences one day. This is the story of her two daughters.
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Last Updated ( Sunday, 20 July 2008 )
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Resources for Parents
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Sunday, 20 July 2008 |
“How can he have a hearing problem when he overhears everything we say from three
rooms away? He has the sharpest ears in the house."
That was the startled response of one typical couple when their son's preschool teacher
suggested he might be deaf.
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Resources for Parents
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Sunday, 20 July 2008 |
Our daughter, Annabel, started school in February 2003 when she was four years and two months old.
When we were asked to consider early entry for Annabel, I searched the Internet in an effort to find out
all I could about early entry into school. I was particularly looking for other people’s accounts of their
experiences but found only one relevant story, on the NSWAGTC’s website.
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Last Updated ( Sunday, 20 July 2008 )
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Resources for Teachers
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Saturday, 28 June 2008 |
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In the April 2001 issue of Gifted, (No 118), Kay Pittelkow explored the idea of Multiple Intelligences in the classroom. Kay gives an overview of the concept of MI and looks at ways to access information on this very important area of gifted education. Kay's article is not available electronically. So that as many people as possible can have access to the websites and books that Kay described as extremely valuable, the full annotated bibliography is supplied below.
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Last Updated ( Saturday, 28 June 2008 )
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Resources for Parents
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Saturday, 28 June 2008 |
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MY SECOND son was diagnosed in 1988 as gifted with learning disabilities. Two educational psychologists told me that he had a very poor short-term auditory memory ("nothing to worry about!") and poor sequencing in both auditory and visual activities. There was also mention of a problem with the corpus callosum. (The band of neurones that form the link between the left and right hemispheres of the brain). All reports commented upon how easily he was distracted by events outside the room.
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Last Updated ( Saturday, 28 June 2008 )
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General
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Saturday, 28 June 2008 |
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In this article "CAPD SubCategories", Kay Pittelkow provides details of the different variants of Central Auditory Processing Disorder, as part of her larger article "CAPD and the gifted child: The relevance of central auditory processing deficit to gifted education".
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Last Updated ( Saturday, 28 June 2008 )
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General
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Monday, 23 June 2008 |
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Some gifted children learn most effectively through non-auditory channels. Because these children do not learn effectively in a traditional classroom they often perform well below their mental age. Additionally, because they are gifted, they are intrinsically aware of their own lack of achievement (particularly in respect to other less gifted children). They are "turned off" school and are often disruptive in class or at home showing many of the characteristics of the gifted learning disabled. The frustration, inner conflict, boredom, lack of a suitable peers and fragile self-esteem of such children translates into unruly and unsettling behaviour.
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Last Updated ( Saturday, 28 June 2008 )
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Policies
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Sunday, 27 April 2008 |
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The NSW Department of Education provides an excellent gifted and talented policy support portal, with access for teachers and parents to relevant documents and supporting sites and materials.
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