Gifted, Learning Differences

Gifted   l   AD/HD   l   Twice Exceptional   l   Visual Spatial   l   Various LDs   l   Assessment Tools
The Autism Spectrum   l   Autism from the Inside

• Heart and Soul of Giftedness
  "To understand any human being, any child, and certainly any gifted child, we need to focus on the Self, the inner core. The Self has no choice but to pursue its inner goal, the way a flower must follow its inner destination."
  by Annemarie Roeper
  
  
• Characteristics and Behaviours of the gifted
  
  
• The Emotional Needs of the Gifted Child
  by Annemarie Roeper
  
  
• Helping Your Highly Gifted Child
  by Stephanie Tolan
  
  
• Misdiagnosis of the Gifted
  by Lynne Azpeitia and Mary Rocamora
  
  
• Gifted Development Center
  Linda Silverman's site
  
  
• Hoagies' Gifted Education
  A wealth of information about giftedness
  
  
• Creative Home Schooling for Gifted Children: A Resource Guide
  Written by Lisa Rivero, an educator and the homeschooling parent of a gifted child, this book is a great resource for homeschooling parents of gifted kids, from the novice to the experienced.
  Available from the publishers; www.giftedbooks.com
  
  
• "TAG" (talented and gifted) resource page
  Includes a link to the Tagmax e-mail list for homeschooling parents of gifted kids
  
  
• Assessing Gifted Children
  by Julia Osborn
  
  
• Overexcitabilities and Giftedness
  
  
• Giftedness and Perfectionism
  
  
• Gifted Women
  
  
• Gender and Genius
  by Barbara Kerr
  
  http://cfge.wm.edu/documents/GenderGenius.htm
• Existential Depression in Gifted Individuals
  by James Webb
  
  
• Asynchrony:
  Homeschooling an Exceptionally Gifted Child
  by Hilary Cohen
  
  
• Why Nerds are Unpopular
  by Paul Graham
  
  
• Some Can Sail Over High School
  an article by Laura Vanderkam
  
  
  
• Dead Students Society
  High school teaches kids to associate learning with mind-numbing boredom
  by Evan Morgan
  
  
• The Problem With IQ
  by Tim Weiss
  
  
• A fun IQ test
  Hey, it worked for me! =:^D
  
  

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Please note that there are many overlapping biochemical and neurodevelopmental issues with AD/HD, learning disabilities and Autism Spectrum Dis-order. For more info go to The Autism Spectrum


• Parenting Gifted Children with AD/HD
  by Dr. Sidney M. Moon
  
  
• Gifted Children with AD/HD
  by Deirdre V. Lovecky, Ph.D.
  ""The dual exceptionality of being both gifted, and AD/HD, often means that such children are not recognized as having either exceptionality, and thus, their needs for an appropriate education are not met."
  
  
• Mis-Diagnosis and Dual Diagnosis of Gifted Children:
  Gifted and LD, ADHD, OCD, Oppositional Defiant Disorder
  by James Webb
  
  
• When It's Not ADHD, What Is It, A Zebra?
  by Frank Barnhill, M.D.
  
  
• Side Effects of Drugs Used for ADHD
  by Dr. Mary Ann Block
  
  
• ADD as a Social Invention
  By Thomas Armstrong, Ph.D.
  
  
• "Touched With Fire"
  Moods and the Creative Mind
  
  
• ADD/ADHD, Vision and Learning
  Some symptoms attributed to ADD/ADHD are also seen in children and adults with visual problems, sensory integration dysfunction and/or allergies.
  
  
• ADD in Females
  
  

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Please note that there are many overlapping biochemical and neurodevelopmental issues with AD/HD, learning disabilities and Autism Spectrum Dis-order. For more info go to The Autism Spectrum


• Gifted Children with Learning Disabilities
  Checklists for comparisons between "symptoms" of giftedness and LDs, sequential/visual spatial, LD symptoms and solutions
  by Linda Silverman
  
  
• Children with Dual Exceptionalities
  A Collection of related links
  
  
• Uniquely Gifted:
  Resources for Gifted Children with Special Needs
  Compiled by Meredith Warshaw
  
  
• The Einstein Factor
  "Some very gifted children are often condemned as failures in the school system because they learn in a different way to the majority of kids."
  
  
• The Underachieving Gifted Chld
  Some related links
  
  
• Lists of Books on Learning Differences
  
  

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• I Think in Pictures, You Teach in Words: The Gifted Visual Spatial Learner
  An very good introduction to the concept of the Visual (Spatial) Learner
  
  
• Visual Spatial Learners
  related links
  
  
• Effective Techniques for Teaching Highly Gifted Visual-Spatial Learners
  by Linda Silverman
  
  
  
• The Writing Problems of Visual Thinkers
  Here's a wonderful analysis of the thinking patterns of what Gerald Grow calls "Visual Thinkers". (what I might call "holistic thinkers") He describes the inherent challenges in translating these kinds of thought processes into the written word.
  by Gerald Grow
  
  

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• Dysgraphia
  ""Dysgraphia" is a learning disability resulting from the difficulty in expressing thoughts in writing and graphing. It generally refers to extremely poor handwriting. ...Students with dysgraphia often have sequencing problems. Studies indicate that what usually appears to be a perceptual problem (reversing letters/numbers, writing words backwards, writing letters out of order, and very sloppy handwriting) usually seems to be directly related to sequential/rational information processing. "
  
  
• Dysgraphia
  related links
  
  
• Dyscalculia: specific learning disability in math.
  " Dyscalculia is of a number of different types, each involving a specific type of problem in solving mathematical tasks. It corresponds in mathematics performance to dyslexia in the area of writing "
  
  
• Sensory Integration Dysfuntion
  The senses work together. Each sense works with the others to form a composite picture of who we are physically, where we are, and what is going on around us. Sensory integration is the critical function of the brain that is responsible for producing this composite picture. It is the organization of sensory information for on-going use.
  
  
• Sensory Integration and Communicating
  From Gentle Teaching; click on Sensory Integration
  
  
• Central Auditory Processing Disorder
  "A CAPD is a physical hearing impairment, but one which does not show up as a hearing loss on routine screenings or an audiogram. Instead, it affects the hearing system beyond the ear, whose job it is to separate a meaningful message from non-essential background sound and deliver that information with good clarity to the intellectual centers of the brain (the central nervous system). When we receive distorted or incomplete auditory messages we lose one of our most vital links with the world and other people."
  
  
• Dyspraxia
  "The senses work together. Each sense works with the others to form a composite picture of who we are physically, where we are, and what is going on around us. Sensory integration is the critical function of the brain that is responsible for producing this composite picture. It is the organization of sensory information for on-going use. "
  
  
• Enhancing Learning of Students with LD without Compromising Standards: Tips for Teaching
  
  

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• Online CPI Test (Cognitive Processing Inventory)
  The CPI provides scores in the processing areas of Auditory Processing, Visual Processing, Sequential/Rational Processing, Conceptual/Holistic Processing, Processing Speed, Attention.