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Defining Giftedness

Why "giftedness" is more than test scores or academic achievement.

• Is She Really Gifted? Identifying and Nurturing the Child Gifted in the Fine and Performing Arts  By Kandi Chong
  
• Is Your Young Child Gifted?  By Corin Barsily Goodwin, Gifted Homeschoolers Forum
• What is Giftedness?  By Linda Kreger Silverman, Ph.D, Director, Gifted Development Center
• 5 Signs That Your Child is Gifted
• A Response to "All Children are Gifted" by Michael Clay Thompson
• Intelligence as a brain system: Brain System Behind General Intelligence Discovered
  
• Giftedness is not 'just a label'; it's a neurological condition. Read:Brains on Fire: The Multimodality of Gifted Thinkers by Drs. Brock and Fernette Eide
• Characteristics of Giftedness from Gifted for Life
• Characteristics of Gifted Children from Duke TIP
• Cortex Matures Faster in Youth with Highest IQ
• Do You Have a Gifted Child? by Hana R. Alberts for Forbes.com
• Exceptionally Gifted Children: Different Minds by D. V. Lovecky
• Gifted and Labels: What's in a Name? by Stephanie Tolan
• High Achiever, Gifted Learner, Creative Thinker by Bertie Kingore explains the differences among the three.
• Intelligence: New Findings and Theoretical Developments by Richard E. Nesbitt et al, American Psychologist
• Intelligence in the Brain: Conversation with Neuroscientist Rogier Kievit
• Is it a Cheetah? by Stephanie S. Tolan
  
• Is Your Child Gifted? by Sue Douglass Fliess
• Carolyn K's Understanding Levels of Giftedness: What are they and what do they mean?
• Myths about Gifted Students is a (footnoted and referenced) handout from a presentation given by Dr. Joyce VanTassel-Baska.
• On The Nature of Giftedness and Talent: Imposing Order on Chaos by Martha J. Morelock
• Small Poppies: Highly Gifted Children in the Early Years by Miraca Gross
  
• Speeding up brain networks might boost IQ reports on research in the Journal of Neuroscience explaining that the most intelligent people don't have more brain connections, but they do have more efficiently placed connections.
• The Creative Personality by  Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi for Psychology Today
• The Legend of the Pink Monkey, by Cici Clovis.
• The Neurobiological Foundations of Giftedness, by Martin Mrazik & Stefan C. Dombrowski for Roeper Review
• From Unwrapping the Gifted: What Brain Imagining Shows us About Gifted Learners
• What Brain Imagining Shows Us About Gifted Learners by Tamara Fisher
• What We Have Learned is a compilation by Linda Silverman of the key lessons learned about giftedness in thirty years at the Gifted Development Center.

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Education Alternatives

Providing an appropriate education for a gifted or twice exceptional (2e) child often means thinking outside the box. Sometimes a traditional classroom setting is a good match, but it's not for everyone. Many families choose various methods of homeschooling (secular, religious, unschooling, eclectic, carschooling, and so on), while other families prefer charter schools, independent study programs, part-time homeschooling or other alternatives.

• A Case for Homeschooling  By Melanie Hayes, MEd
• Acts of Enclosure By David Albert, homeschooling speaker & author
• Education Policy Primer for Homeschooling Families By Wenda Sheard, J.D., Ph.D.
• Gifted Homeschooling in the US (reprinted from NAGC Magazine, Spring 2009) By Corin Barsily Goodwin, Gifted Homeschoolers Forum and Mika Gustavson, MFT 
  
• Homeschooling My Gifted Children  By Corin Barsily Goodwin, Gifted Homeschoolers Forum
• How Do I Homeschool My Gifted Child By Tiffany Tan, (former) Asst. Director, Gifted Homeschoolers Forum
• How I Became a Homeschooler -- With All My Teeth, Thank You Very Much! By Alexandra "Allie" Golon, Director, Visual-Spatial Resource
  
• Public Independent Study Programs and Charter Schools By Stephanie Hood, Gifted Homeschoolers Forum
• Some Reasons for Homeschooling your Gifted Child  By Corin Barsily Goodwin, Gifted Homeschoolers Forum
• The Value of a MentorBy Stephanie Hood, Gifted Homeschoolers Forum
  
• Why Homeschool? By Corin Barsily Goodwin, Gifted Homeschoolers Forum
• A Case for Actually Educating Gifted Children by Susan B. Hyde (particularly well -researched!)
• Age Segregation in School by Karl M. Bunday
• Asynchrony: Homeschooling an Exceptionally Gifted Child, by Hilary Cohen
• Do Grades or Standardized Test Scores Make the Student? from the Washington Post
• Evidence for Homeschooling: Constitutional Analysis in Light of Social Science Research by Deborah Schwarzer, Counsel, GCA Law Partners LLP, and GHF Board Member & Legal Counsel; Sean Gates, Partner, Morrison & Foerster LLP; and Tanya Dumas, Associate, Bingham McCutchen LLP. All the solid research on homeschooling consolidated into one well-written paper. 
• For Some Black Parents, the New Home Room is Home: Public schools are failing black boys, say a growing number of parents who are homeschooling by Chloe A. Hilliard for the Village Voice
• Gifted Dropouts: The Who and the Why by Joseph Renzulli and Sunghee Park, University of Connecticut
• Giftedness and High School Dropouts: Personal, Family, and School-related Factors, by Joseph S. Renzulli, National Research Center on the Gifted and Talented
• Home Room: Debunking the Myths of Homeschooling by Lisa Rivero
• Homeschooling: An Accidental Journey by Muriel Knope
• Concerns about kids falling through the cracks? Peer reviewed research from The Fraser Institute shows how homeschooling can help: Home schooling improves academic performance and reduces impact of socio-economic factors
• Homeschooling Across America: Academic Achievement and Demographic Characteristics -- Nationwide cross-sectional, descriptive study examining the educational history, demographic features, and academic achievement of home-educated students and the basic demographics of their families, and assessing the relationships between the homeschool students’ academic achievement and selected student and family variables. Conducted by Dr. Brian D. Ray, National Home Education Research Institute
• From the Fraser Institute: Home Schooling: From the Extreme to the Mainstream, 2nd Edition
  
• Homeschooling Gifted Children: What do you mean, and why does it matter? by Josh Shaine
• Homeschooling Gifted Students by Jacque Ensign
• Homeschooling Gifted Students: An Introductory Guide for Parents — Report from ERIC Clearinghouse on Disabilities and Gifted Education
• Homeschooling Highly Gifted Children, by Kathi Kearney 
• Homeschooling Goes Mainstream is Milton Gaither's paper, published by the Hoover Institution at Standford University
  
• Archive, "Homeschooling the Gifted," Our Gifted Online Conference, 2003.
  
• The How to Homeschool Your Children article on the WikiHow site has a basic overview of how to homeschool (in the authors' opinions!)
• The Houston Chronicle reports on Leaving the learning at home: More blacks choosing to teach their own children
• David Guterson, popular fiction author, discusses the evolution of homeschooling inNo Longer a Fringe Movement
• Meeting the Needs of Gifted and Talented Minority Language Students by Linda M. Cohen discusses why schools don't always meet the needs of gifted minorities.
  
• Most Dropouts Leave School Due to Boredom, Lack of Encouragement, Report Finds is based on Silent Epidemic: Perspectives of High School Dropouts, research commissioned by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.
• Muslims Turning to Home Schooling in Increasing Numbers, by Tara Bahrampour for the Washington Post
• School vs. Homeschool by Lorel Shea, BellaOnline's Gifted Editor.
• The "S" Question: Socialization: A Great Reason Not to Go to School by Karl M. Bunday
• Worried you don't have the patience to homeschool? Read The Type-A Homeschooler, by Lisa Bildy
  
• Socialization: Homeschoolers are in the Real World
• How do gifted homeschoolers turn out? See for yourself at Mental Floss'The Quick 10: 10 Famous Homeschooled People or Hoagies' Notable Homeschoolers
• Ten signs you need a different kind of education for your child by Jerry Mintz
• Transitions To and From Homeschooling, by Linda Dobson
• Read on for a high school student's well thought out perspective on Why School Is Bad

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Learning Styles and Needs

Here is where you can read about visual spatial, auditory, sequential and kinesthetic learning styles. We include articles regarding Dabrowski's Overexcitabilities (OEs), learning organizational methods and other executive function skills.

• Behavioral Management of Gifted Children: A Neuropsychological Approach  By Paul Beljan, PsyD, ABPdN, President, American Board of Pediatric Neuropsychology
• Care and Feeding of Sensual Overexcitability and the .pdf of companion presentation slides came from Lorraine Bouchard's terrific workshop at the 2006 SENG conference.
  
• Fa Nichts  By David Albert, homeschooling speaker & author
• Kinesthetic Learners: A Homeschool Success Story By Kayla Garelick, M.Ed., LL.M., J.D.
  
• Organizational Skills for Visual-Spatial Learners By Alexandra "Allie" Golon, Director, Visual-Spatial Resource
• Slowpitch  By David Albert, homeschooling speaker & author
• Underachievement By David Albert, homeschooling speaker & author
• Visual-Spatial Learners and the Challenge of Spelling By Alexandra "Allie" Golon, Director, Visual-Spatial Resource
• Challenges Faced By Gifted Learners in School and Beyond, Jeremy S. Page
• Getting a Look at Visual/Spatial Learning, by Becca Orlowski
  
• The Gifted Brain & Learning: At Home and At School Dr. Barbara Clark applies neuroscientific insights on giftedness to the learning process.
• Helping Auditory Learners Succeed by Shannon Hutton
• Learning - Styles, Disabilities, Differences, and Gifted Lots and lots of links compiled by Sterling Home School Academy
• Two thumbs up! Mental Health Continuums: Cognition, Sensory Processing and Arousal Marlo Payne Thurman writes about asynchronous development, sensory processing, and boredom.
• Spatial Ability: A Neglected Talent Domain from Duke TIP
• Spatial Thinkers - Not Visual and Not Verbal by Drs. Brock and Fernette Eide
• Visual Learners Convert Words To Pictures In The Brain And Vice Versa, Says Psychology Study
• Visual-Spatial Learner: An Introduction by Linda Kreger Silverman, Ph.D.
  
• What Does a Smart Brain Look Like? Inner Views Show How We ThinkScientific American reports on the "new neuroscience of intelligence"
• What It Means to Be a Kinesthetic Learner by Sue Douglass Fliess
• What It Means to Be an Auditory Learner by Sue Douglass Fliess
  

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Testing

How do you know if your child is gifted, or has unidentified learning differences? Many families seek assessments (qualitative or quantitative) in order to understand how their child's brain works. The full scale score can be handy, but the subtest scores - when tests are administered by qualified and experienced testers - can be eye-opening. Testing is not necessary for every child, but when behavioral issues indicate unknown obstacles (no, they're not just being a pain!), an assessment can be a good way to determine if a child is so skilled at compensating that the surrounding adults are unaware of the effort being put forth in this regard.

• To Test or Not to Test
  By Linda Kreger Silverman, PhD, Director, Gifted Development Center
• Understanding Testing: Using Test Results to Support Clinical Judgement
  By Linda Kreger Silverman, PhD, Director, Gifted Development Center
• "Why Is Assessment Important If We Plan On Homeschooling?"
  By Alexandra "Allie" Golon, Author; Director, Visual-Spatial Resource
• A history of IQ testing
• An Overview of Issues in Assessing Gifted Children, by Linda Silverman -- this article addresses such questions as which test should be used, which version and what kind. Includes quantitative and qualitative assessment
• A little background on testing and test development: Educational Psychologist Kevin McGrew: An IQ Test Maker Who Goes Beyond IQ
• Intelligent Testing by Dr. Scott Barry Kauffman discusses the evolving landscape of IQ testing.
  
• IQ tests and Gifted Children, from DukeTIP Gifted Letter
• Making Sense of IQ, by Nadia Webb, SENG Board of Directors
• Practical Questions About Testing and Assessment, by Dr. Ed Amend
• Smart as we can get? Gains on certain tests of intelligence are ending in some places -- this article by David Schneider from American Scientist discusses the end of the Flynn Effect, the tendency for IQ scores to rise over time.
• Tips for Parents: IQ Testing and How to Use It, from Davidson Institute for Talent Development
• More extremely useful articles by Carolyn K: Testing and Assessment: What do the tests tell us?, Why do my child's test scores vary from test to test?, and An Inventory of Tests
• Understanding Tests and Measurements for the Parent and Advocate, by Peter Wright and Pamela Darr Wright for LD Online
• Why Should I Have My Child Tested? by Carolyn K. of Hoagies Gifted Education Page

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Teens and College

Should you allow your child to begin college early? How early? Which college? If your child does not have a formal high school diploma, how can you get them into college? What if your child does not want to go to college right now? How do homeschooled children perform in advanced educational settings at any age? Browse through these articles for more insight into this complicated issue.

• Considerations in Early College Attendance  By Tonya L. Andersen, Homeschooling Parent and Author
• Homeschooling Gifted Teens: Preparing for College  By Wes Beach, GHF Teen Advisor; Director, Beach High School
  
• Some Thoughts About College Admissions    By Wes Beach, GHF Teen Advisor; Director, Beach High School
  
• A Homeschooler Goes to College - "It wasn't the schoolwork or social life that threw me. It's that I never realized how dull a classroom could be."
• Alternatives for Homeschooling Teens: Self-Direction, Engagement, and Success by Wes Beach
  
• Can Homeschoolers Do Well In College? by Lynn O'Shaughnessy
• Colleges That Admit Homeschoolers FAQ, by Karl M. Bunday
• First-Year College Performance: A Study of Home School Graduates and Traditional School Graduates, by Dr. Paul Jones and Dr. Gene Gloeckner
• Homeschooled Applicants: Helpful Tips is an article on the MIT Admissions site aimed at homeschooled applicants to the university.
• Homeschoolers Are Preferred by Colleges and Universities
• Independence and Relationship Issues in Intellectually Gifted Adolescents, by Deborah Ruf
• Meet Kate Fridkiss, Who Skipped K-12 and is Neither Weird nor Homeless
• Myths and Realities of Early College, by Lorel Shea
  
• Parents' Perspectives on Early College Entrance for Profoundly Gifted Children: Readiness Issues and First College Class Options, by Beth Wright
• Pursuing Alternative Paths to College Admission by Wes Beach
• Ryan's Early College Experience by Rita Ostrager -- an excellent piece on the issues faced by young college students.
• Straight Talk: Helping Bright Teens Through Tough Times the Davidson Institute for Talent Development compiled suggestions from Jim Delisle, Ph.D., Deborah Ruf, Ph.D., Esther Sinclair, Ph.D., James Webb, Ph.D., Nadia Webb, PsyD
• Young Teen College Students Report Happiness in this recent study of 12 to14 year olds in college.

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Living with Gifted Children

Let's face it, living with gifted and 2e children is complicated. Jokes about duct tape and soundproof closets aside, it can be helpful to understand what your child is feeling, how they are developing, and what they were thinking when they asked that unusual question or performed that dangerous experiment alone out in the shed (and how do you explain the damage to your neighbors?).  These kids are asynchronous, intense, and endlessly fascinating to live with. The articles here give some perspective to those of us raising such children and reassure us that we are not alone.

• Living with Sensory Sensitivities By Corin Barsily Goodwin, Gifted Homeschoolers Forum, and Mika Gustavson, MFT
• Love, Labels, and Legitimacy By Tracy Blom
• Unnecessary Expectations  By Lisa Rivero
  
• Homeschooling with Profoundly Gifted Kids, by Tagfam.org director Kit Finn, is an excerpt from High IQ Kids: Collected Insights, Information, and Personal Stories from the Experts
• I don't brag about my gifted kid, by Jen Merrill of Laughing at Chaos
• Life in the Asynchronous Family, by Kathi Kearney
• "The Highly Gifted," column series by Kathi Kearney; appeared in Understanding Our Gifted, 1988–1994
  
• Traversing the Straits of Adolescence: A Guide for Parents of Profoundly Gifted Teens by Robert Schultz for the Davidson Institute for Talent Development
• Yeah, my kid is smart, but...
• Emotional Intensity:
  • Actualization of Giftedness: Effects of Perceptions in Gifted Adolescents by Shelley Fahlman. Includes bibliography for further reading.
  • Emotional Intensity in Gifted Children
  • Gifted children: Emotionally immature or emotionally intense?
  • How to Escape Perfectionism, an adult perspective from the Harvard Business Review.
  • Overexcitabilities and the Gifted Child
  • Tips for Parents of Intense Children, by Sharon Lind
  • Vulnerabilities of highly gifted children
• Friendship and Social Skills:
  
  • A Pot of Gold: Gifted Children & “True” Peers http://parentingforhighpotential.com/2011/10/16/a-pot-of-gold-gifted-children-peers/
  • Friendship and Giftedness is a blog post by Carol Fertig with a handful of links on friendship and socialization.
  • Classic! Play Partner or Sure Shelter? What Gifted Children Look for in Friendship, by Miraca U. M. Gross
  • Social Skills of Gifted Children, by Louise Porter
  • SOS for Parents: Social and Play Skills 

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Twice Exceptional (2e) Issues

Twice exceptional children are both gifted and have learning differences, resulting in an extreme asynchrony that can increase parenting challenges exponentially. Some of these exceptionalities may include autism or Asperger's Syndrome; auditory and visual processing disorders; dyslexia and dysgraphia; sensory integration dysfunction; ADD or ADHD; bipolar disorder; OCD; Tourette's Syndrome; and myriad other dual diagnoses. Some families have found ways to deal with the challenges in their family that make their homes run relatively smoothly; others describe their family lives as akin to "the bar scene from Star Wars."

General Information

• At Risk Youth and the Creative Process by Linda Kreger Silverman, Ph.D.
• Gifted Children with Learning Challenges (Twice Exceptional) by Corin Barsily Goodwin, Gifted Homeschoolers Forum
• Raising My Twice-Exceptional Children... Not What I Signed Up For! (pt.1)by Sarah Garrison
• 2E Homeschooling: the Sequel (pt.2) by Sarah Garrison
• The Bow Tie Model: Homeschooling the Twice-Exceptional Child: Why 2e Does Not Fit Well in the Traditional Classroom and What to Do About It by Corin Barsily Goodwin, Executive Director, GHF, and Mika Gustavson, MFT (2eNewsletter, Issue 32)
• Giftedness and LD: Twice Exceptional and Still Struggling, by Dr. Sheldon H. Horowitz, National Center for Learning Disabilities (NCLD)
• Helping Teens with LD Develop a Healthy, Balanced Lifestyle, by Arlyn Roffman (SchwabLearning.org) -- article on how various learning disabilities (LD) create challenges for kids of all ages as they juggle the many components of healthy living, personal grooming and hygiene.
• 'Holland'
  • Welcome to Holland, written by Emily Perl Kingsley, a mom whose child was born with Down Syndrome, wrote this essay to help ease the pain of raising a "different" child. It has been spread around far beyond the Down parenting community as a well-intentioned effort to bring the same comfort to parents of special needs children everywhere.
  • Wikipedia explains the essay and its analogies.
  • Unfortunately, the message is simply inappropriate for parents of some "different" children, and Cathy Marciniak articulately explains why. Her essay, Response to 'Holland' is a must-read for anyone trying to understand what life can be like with twice exceptional children
  • The conversation continues - A response by Anna Otto
• It’s Not Easy Being 2e - One mom’s experience raising her children.
• Siblings of Twice-Exceptional Children, by Meredith G. Warshaw
• Studies Shed Light on 'Twice-Exceptional' Students from Education Week
• Tips for Parents: Homeschooling Twice-Exceptional Children, by Meredith G. Warshaw
  
• Twice Exceptional Children by Sue Douglass Fliess
• The Two-Edged Sword of Compensation: How the Gifted Cope with Learning Disabilities, by Linda Silverman
• Don't miss! The Turkey and the Crow, presented by Drs. Brock and Fernette Eide at TedXEastsidePrep
• What do Twice Exceptional Children Need?

ADHD

• ADHD and Giftedness by Megan Foley Nicpon, Ph.D./ Davidson Institute for Talent Development
• Brain Scans Link ADHD to Biological Flaw Tied to Motivation, by Katherine Ellison for the Washington Post
• Check out Learning and Motivational Characteristics of Boys with AD/HD and/or Giftedness, a report from the Council for Exceptional Children.

Autism and Asperger Syndrome

• ASD and Giftedness: Twice Exceptionality on the Autistic Spectrum by Corin Barsily Goodwin,Gifted Homeschoolers Forum, and Mika Gustavson, MFT
  
• Asperger's Disorder, by Carol E. Watkins, M.D. This concise but comprehensive overview of what Asperger's looks like also takes into account the wide range of possible characteristics, rather than using broad strokes to paint one "Aspie" as just like every other "Aspie."
• Everything you ever wanted to know about Asperger's Syndrome
• A lot of parents wonder if their gifted child has Asperger's Syndrome. Read Diagnostic Confusion in Asperger Disorder for more information.
• Autism and the art of campervan maintenance - Terrific piece about the heterogeneity of autism.
• Experiences of Parents Who Homeschool Their Children With Autism Spectrum Disorders - A small study with interesting results.
• Explaining AS to Parents of Second-Graders in 500 Words or Less, by Jeanne Holverstott
• Exceptionalities often run in families. The article Living with Aspergers is a worthwhile read from the Families of Adults Affected by Asperger's Syndrome (FAAAS) website.
• Don't miss! An interview with Temple Grandin :Life Among the Yakkity Yaks: The renowned inventor on how the insights she gained from her own autism fueled her career.
• Parenting an Aspie: A Cerebral Task, by Jeanne Holverstott
• Words with Friends...and Asperger's Disorder, by Jeanne Holverstott

Dyslexia, Dysgraphia & Dyscalculia

• Dysgraphia: When it's more than Bad Handwriting Excellent blog post from Not Otherwise Specified: Life on the Autistic Spectrum
• What is dyslexia really? How the Brain Learns to Read Can Depend on the Language, by Robert Lee Hotz for the Wall Street Journal
• Learning Disabilities: Symptoms, Types, Diagnosis, and Support
• What does dyslexia look like in a gifted child? Stealth Dyslexia, by Drs. Brock and Fernette Eide
• The Two-Edged Sword of Compensation: How the Gifted Cope with Learning Disabilities, by Linda Silverman
• What the heck is Dyscalculia? The math disability you have never heard of.
• Math and the Brain: Why Things Just Don't Add Up for Some Students

 

Executive Function

• The Nature and Organization of Individual Differences in Executive Functions: Four General Conclusions by Akira Miyake and Naomi P. Friedman, Association for Psychological Science
• Tips for Parents: Executive Functioning at Home and School by Aimee Yermish
  

Sensory Processing Disorders

• Auditory Processing and Language Processing: What's the Difference? by Deanna Swallow
• Good overview! Central Auditory Processing Disorders (CAPD): An Overview of Assessment and Management Practices 
• Gifted Children with CAPD, by Lorel Shea for BellaOnline
• How our brains keep us focused, and what happens with sensory processing inefficiencies
• Information Processing Disorders, from the National Center for Learning Disabilities (NCLD)
• Sensory Perception Sensitivity: Researchers Find Differences In How The Brains Of Some Individuals Process The World Around Them
• Good description of Sensory Integration (Sensory Processing Disorder) on Neuropath Learning

Other Diagnoses & Symptoms

• What you need to know about echolalia
  
• Good question: What happens when students don’t have good executive functioning skills?

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Book Reviews and Interviews

As you might expect, these are book reviews, interviews and articles relating to topics near and dear to GHF members.

• GHF Interviews... Kathi Kearney Corin Barsily Goodwin, Director, GHF,interviews Kathi Kearney, M.A. Ed
• Quirky Kids: Understanding and Helping Your Child Who Doesn't Fit In; When to Worry and When Not to Worry Sarah Garrison's take on the book by Perri Klass, M.D., and Eileen Costello, M.D.
• The Dilemma of the Instant Expert: Or, how a childless writer with no experience as an educator nevertheless decides to tell parents of gifted children where they've gone wrong. A critique of Alissa Quart's Hothouse Kids: The Dilemma of the Gifted Child by Sarah Garrison.
• When the Labels Don't Fit: A New Approach to Raising A Challenging Child  Mika Gustavson reviews Barbara Probst's guide to understanding your child's behavior.
• An Interview with Corin Goodwin of Gifted Homeschoolers Forum
• An Interview with Dr. Edward R. Amend: About the Emotional Needs of Gifted Kids, by Suzi Cottrell and Michael F. Shaughnessy
• From Sparkling Kids: About Gifted Homeschoolers with Corin Goodwin

Professionals

What do you want your friendly neighborhood therapist, pediatrician, teacher or coach to know about your child or how your child thinks or behaves? As a professional, what would help you to understand the children you work with and their families? What are some of the issues you may face repeatedly, and which are indicators of giftedness or twice- exceptionality that is either "normal" or pathological? Why are these families homeschooling instead of sending their children to school? These articles will give you clues about what to look for in children who present along this continuum in order to best assist them in developing their potential.

• At-Risk Youth and the Creative Process By Linda Kreger Silverman, Ph.D, Director, Gifted Development Center
• Why does giftedness matter to mental health care? Read Diagnosis: Gifted By Mika Gustavson, LMFT and Corin Barsily Goodwin, Gifted Homeschoolers Forum
• Misdiagnosis and Missed Diagnoses: Giftedness and Disorders By Linda Kreger Silverman, Ph.D, Director, Gifted Development Center
• The Many Faces of Perfectionism  By Linda Kreger Silverman, Ph.D, Director, Gifted Development Center
• What Parents Want Teachers (and Professionals) to Know About Highly Gifted and Twice-Exceptional Children  Compiled by Sarah Sheard, engineer and gifted mom
• Don't miss! The Blame Game: Are School Problems the Kids' Fault?, by Pamela Darr Wright, M.A., M.S.W. Licensed Clinical Social Worker
• Cheetahs on the Couch: Issues Affecting the Therapeutic Working Alliance With Clients Who Are Cognitively Gifted  by Aimee Yermish
• Need help understanding OCD -- or explaining it to someone else? Try Children and adolescents with obsessive-compulsive disorder: A primer for teachers
• Gifted and Talented Children: Issues for Pediatricians by Nancy M. Robinson and Paula M. Olszewski-Kubilius. This 1996 article does not mention homeschooling as an option; nonetheless it can be a handy item to print out and hand to a professional who feels they  have limited time to be educated on gifted issues
• Preventing Burnout in the People Who Help Us, by Meredith G. Warshaw
  
• Psychologists Familiar with Testing the Gifted and Exceptionally Gifted, by Carolyn K.
• Supporting Your Gifted Child: How to Find a Therapist
• Tips for Selecting the Right Counselor or Therapist for Your Gifted Child, by James T. Webb
• What Homeschoolers Can Teach Educators About Gifted Children, by Suki Wessling
• Choosing the right mental health professional: You Don’t Have to Go it Alone, by Linda Neumann for SENG.

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