Identification of Gifted Children

• Bright Child/Gifted Learner - A chart outlining the general differences between a bright child and a gifted learner- a helpful instrument when analyzing the meaning of gifted.
• Characteristics and Behaviors of the Gifted - Covers identification, learning characteristics, and creative characteristics of gifted learners.
• Characteristics of Giftedness - A gifted work of literature by authored by Linda Kreger Silverman.
• The gifted and the extraordinary - A column by Martin E.P. Seligman, PhD.
• Giftedness as Asynchronous Development - Accepting giftedness as a trait of the self, an issue of differential development, allows us to relate to and assist the whole gifted child, rather than merely the accomplishments
• Identifying and Serving Recent Immigrant Children Who Are Gifted - Issues affecting the gifted immigrant student.
• Mind-Works - Offers info on recognizing and supporting giftedness, dual exceptionality, learning disabilities, attention deficit disorder, and various other learning styles. Boston Metro-west area.
• Mis-Diagnosis and Dual Diagnosis of Gifted Children - Many of our brightest and most creative minds not only don’t receive the appropriate recognition, but they are commonly diagnosed with conditions indicating pathology. Offers a list of frequent Mis-Diagnoses of gifted youth.
• Misdiagnosis of the Gifted - Gifted individuals are constantly challenged. One such challenge may be in being properly identified by psychotherapists and others as gifted.
• Standardized Test Holdings - A comprehensive collection of every standardized tests used in education the US.
• TKI - Gifted and Talented Students - Reviews the following section, Identification of Gifted and Talented Students, as pulled from the Ministry of Education handbook entitled Gifted and talented students: Meeting their needs in New Zealand schools.
• Who Are the Gifted? - Provides details concerning giftedness from the National Association for Gifted Children: "Who Are the Gifted?," "Characteristics of Various Areas of Giftedness," and "Why Should Gifted Education Be Supported?"