Directory of Profoundly Gifted Resources

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Sites that deal with the upper range of gifted children and their problems.

Resources in This Category

• Exceptionally and Profoundly Gifted Students: An Underserved Population

  http://www.hoagiesgifted.org/underserved.htm
  by Miraca Gross. Research suggests that the inclusion classroom, with age peers, may not be the most appropriate environment.

• Fitting a Square Peg Into a Round Hole

  http://www.geniusdenied.com/Cybersource/Record.aspx?lib=1&sort=SourceName&scat=902&stype=110&sid=11368&NavID=7_25&sterm=%22Advocacy%22
  Article by Sandra Carlton describes her challenges in finding an approriate educational setting for her profoundly gifted son. Their story includes legal, administrative and personal obstacles.

• Highly Gifted Children in Full Inclusion Classrooms

  http://www.hollingworth.org/fullincl.html
  An article by Kathi Kearney reviews the literature on full inclusion. The special issues of highly gifted children are examined and a series of recommendations for the placement and education of highly gifted children in full inclusion classrooms are made.

• Nurturing Giftedness In Young Children

  http://www.kidsource.com/kidsource/content/nuturing_giftedness.html
  ERIC Digest #E487 discusses gifted children entering kindergarten and describes how to choose a school.

• The Prodigy Review - Bio: Life of William James Sidis

  http://www.quantonics.com/The_Prodigy_Review.html
  The Prodigy is Amy Wallace's biography of William James Sidis, the brightest human who ever existed on our planet Earth.

• The Quiet Crisis in American Education: The Neglect of Highly Intelligent Students

  http://www.geniusdenied.com/Cybersource/Record.aspx?lib=1&sort=SourceName&scat=902&stype=110&sid=11231&NavID=&sterm=%22Advocacy%22
  Article by Dr. Jan Davidson uses the term "quiet crisis" to describe the neglect of our educational system to nurture our nation's most able young minds.It argues that this quiet crisis in effect denies future generations the benefit of those students' achievements. 2002.00.00

• Wunderkinds

  http://www.geniusdenied.com/Cybersource/Record.aspx?lib=1&sort=SourceName&scat=902&stype=110&sid=11187&NavID=&sterm=%22Advocacy%22
  Article by Roberta Staley describes some of the situations faced by profoundly gifted young people and their families. Staley relates many interesting anecdotes and commentaries. The article advocates for increased recognition of the importance and value of these gifted young people.

 

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