Amend Psychological Services provides comprehensive psychological services including assessment and evaluation, consultations, counseling, and therapy for children, adolescents, and their families. Populations served in our practice include: students with LD, ADHD, or other learning and behavior difficulties; gifted/talented students; special needs students; twice exceptional learners; children experiencing life adjustments associated with divorce, grief and loss, and other family transitions; and, children with chronic illness or chronic pain such as migraines.
Mind Works is independently licensed psychologists who offer a wide variety of psychological services in the Boston Metro-West area. They maintain separate private practices as well as individual responsibility for client services. They
provide assessment/testing, consultation, and psychotherapy services to children, adolescents, and adults. They have many years of clinical experience in assessment, consultation, and treatment with particular expertise in intellectual giftedness, and dual exceptionality.
The Center for the Gifted is nationally known for its successful efforts to provide gifted people with the assistance and encouragement they need to identify, develop, and express their intellectual and creative potentials for the benefit of themselves and society. Services include: counseling and psychotherapy for gifted individuals, couples, and families; gifted identification and psychoeducational assessment; vocational interest testing and career guidance; and presentations and publications focusing on the special needs of people who are gifted.
Educational Options is about meeting the social, emotional, and academic needs of the intellectually gifted. It is about "thinking outside the box," for people who do not fit the norms. Educational Options is centered in Minnesota and serves the needs of gifted children in Minnesota, but it is possible to arrange for assessments and consultations anywhere in the country.
This website contains links to numerous articles are relevant to the profoundly intelligent and their parents. Dr. Rimm's Family Achievement Clinic specializes in gifted children who have problems in school as well as counseling on other gifted issues.
Motivated learners as young as 4 years old are invited to join The Packer Foundation Young Scholars Gifted Program. The learning opportunities are continuous from the Preschool, Primary, Intermediate, and Middle School levels. Enrichment offerings are available in the fall, winter, and summer. The program offers opportunities for academically talented students, pre-k through eighth grade, from more than 100 private and public west suburban schools in DeKalb, DuPage, Kane, Kendall, and Cook counties Illinois, as well as homeschooling students.
The Gifted Resource Center of New England, located in Providence, Rhode Island, serves the needs of gifted children, adolescents and their families. Clinical psychological and educational services are offered in assessment, psychotherapy, curriculum design, school consultation and teacher in-service. Also, articles, resource lists, and suggested readings are offered. This center also engages in research about giftedness, testing techniques and interventions with gifted children and adolescents, presents at conferences on the gifted and writes about many aspects of giftedness.
Written by Joyce VanTassel-Baska, Ed.D., this book provides a concise and thorough introduction to methods for identifying gifted students in the school setting. Including overviews of assessment tools and alternative methods of assessment, as well as pertinent discussions concerning the need to identify gifted and talented students, this book combines research and experience from top scholars in the field of gifted education in a convenient guide for teachers, administrators, and gifted education program directors. Click here to read a review of this book.
Assessment is at the center of all good teaching, and this book is designed to provide a clear, comprehensive guide to the assessment of students with mild disabilities. This book will give you both an understanding of the assessment process and the concrete, practical skills necessary to assess special students successfully so that you can teach them well.
The standard for all assessment personnel, this book continues its tradition of evenhanded coverage of formal and informal assessment for the purpose of making educational decisions about students.
This book describes how popular culture, classroom and home environments can shut down the genius of children. Author Thomas Armstrong urges readers to look beyond traditional understandings of what constitutes genius and describes 12 such qualities: curiosity, playfulness, imagination, creativity, wonder, wisdom, inventiveness, vitality, sensitivity, flexibility, humor, and joy.
This textbook focuses on topics educators face in program planning. Find comprehensive information on identifying, guiding the gifted and designing curriculum and more about the field of gifted education
Writers Dona J. Matthews and Joanne F. Foster advises the reader on how to answer the tricky questions, support gifted kids in today's "common" world, and what to tell the kids along the way. This book also examines different ways of supporting optimal development in those who have been labeled "gifted," and those who have not.
This is a comprehensive resource guide from Jacquelyn Saunders for parents of young gifted children. It contains information on identification, early enrichment activities, school placement issues, and parenting strategies.
This book by Monita R. Leavitt, is great for anyone building a gifted program from scratch or evaluating or changing your program. A CD is included with exciting PowerPoint slides, along with a manual to give you everything you need for staff development, allowing you to customize sessions for parents or school boards. The manual contains background material with references as well as reproducible pages that can be used as handouts.
Written by Barbara Gilman, this book focuses on many of the issues involved in assessing and challenging highly gifted learners. A thorough discussion of the ceiling problems encountered on common assessments is included, as well as strategies for teachers and parents in planning appropriate education.
This is Dr. Leta Hollingworth's classic set of case studies of 12 children above 180 IQ. For most of the 20th century, this book was the definitive work on profoundly gifted children. It is an absolute must-read for anyone who is raising, teaching, counseling, or assessing a profoundly gifted child. The book consists of detailed case studies of the 12 children, including early childhood developmental history; school history and adjustment; test performance on a variety of measures; examples of children's work; and, as far as was possible to trace, their progress into adulthood. The book concludes with chapters that summarize the findings and raise specific issues relating to schooling, leadership, creativity, and parenting.
This book is the definitive reference book for those searching for a summary and evaluation of the literature on giftedness and gifted education with summaries of important topics in the field, providing relevant research and a guide to how the research applies to gifted education. Sample topics addressed include alternative assessment, counseling, early childhood, highly gifted students, homeschooling, parenting, and policy and advocacy.
This book tells the stories of gifted children who have suffered the tedium of classes years behind their ability level, and others who have excelled while learning in an enriching academic environment. Authors Jan and Bob Davidson, with Laura Vanderkam, explore the impact of gifted education policy and advocacy efforts in various locations around the United States. Click here to read a review of this book.
This book by Gary A. Davis Ph. D. is a no-nonsense guide to the concept of giftedness in children, and how parents can provide opportunities to cultivate their children's gifts. Chapters address how to identify gifted children, the pros and cons of educational acceleration and common problems or counseling needs among gifted children.
The 3rd edition of this classic text is a comprehensive resource addressing important research-based considerations in gifted education. Many respected professionals have contributed chapters that cover the following topics: conceptions and identification; instructional models and practices; creativity, thinking skills, and eminence; psychological and counseling issues; populations of giftedness; and special topics, including technology, rural schools, and legal issues.
In this book, David Sousa examines why traditional talent-identification techniques are inadequate (and often inaccurate), and presents methods that will allow you to identify giftedness and talent potential with greater accuracy than ever before.
This practical resource by Susan K. Johnsen, Ph.D. offers up-to-date information for building an effictive, defensible identification process. It acts as a hands-on, research-based guide for identifying gifted and talented children.
Written by Susan K. Johnsen, Ph.D., this publication will provide directors and coordinators of programs for gifted and talented students with a specific step-by-step plan for developing an identification procedure in a school or school district. While the sections of this publication are laid out sequentially according to the steps, identification is an ongoing process. The goal of identification is to ensure that every gifted and talented student who needs a program that is different from the general education curriculum receives one that is matched to his or her specific characteristics.
By compiling a wide variety of viewpoints from many authors, Diane Boothe looks at the diversity in gifted education as it relates to race, gender, and socioeconomic status.
Prepared by 100 researchers and program developers from 24 countries, the chapters of this second edition provide authentic, state-of-the-art, international perspectives on all aspects of identification and development of giftedness and talent. This is a scientific book based mainly on research findings from the psychology of giftedness and talent, and supplemented by the personal opinions of the authors who are experts in the field.
Dr. Sylvia Rimm offers parents guidelines on how to determine if their children are unusually gifted, and how to prepare them for school. These guidelines help to ensure that gifted children are sufficiently challenged in the classroom. There is also a section, called Parenting Keys, that helps parents raise healthy, happy, productive, and well-adjusted children in the demanding contemporary environment.
Deborah L. Ruf divides the content of this book in to three parts dealing with: Identifying characteristics of giftedness, levels of giftedness and educational options and school issues. This reference can help someone who is not professionally trained in giftedness issues, bridge the gap between the real child and the child's IQ. Click here to read a review of this book.
Written by six experts in the field, this award-winning book discusses the importance of identifying giftedness and understanding how the characteristics of being gifted are often similar to those used to diagnosis disorders such as ADHD, ODD, Bipolar, OCD, Autism, or Asperger’s. This book outlines steps for successfully identifying the differences between giftedness and disorders. Click here to read a review of this book.
This book is written specifically for parents who wonder if their child is gifted. Author David Palmer helps parents who have little or no experience with gifted testing and programming and explains these topics in-depth. The text is written in a succinct, easy-to-understand format and answers the questions that parents most commonly ask.
This book, written by Gail Ryser and Kathleen McConnell, helps educators and gifted specialists identify gifted students and then provides ideas on gifted instructional techniques and strategies. This tool kit allows parents to not only buy the book, but also offers evaluation forms and updates the materials periodically.
Alexandra Golon explains how the reader can assess and identify a visual-spatial child then offers tips to parent and educate them. This book also serves to enlighten the rest of the family as well.
With Drs. Ruby Pane and Paul Slocumb, former president of Texas Association for the Gifted and Talented (TAGT) and an educator for 30 years, explain how standard identification tools are not the best way to identify gifted children in poverty. The authors have created new instruments that take poverty into account, which provide schools a method for achieving equity in gifted programs.
This book provides excellent insight into the reasons some gifted black students are not identified as such by the processes currently in place. It also provides reasons some black parents may not wish their child to be included in gifted programs. It discusses black culture and dialect. A very good book for educators who are concerned about minorities being underrepresented in our school's gifted programs.
Authors, Tina Newman and Robert Sternberg, provide the reader with a broader conceptualization of the gifted/LD learner to include students who have gifts in other areas than high IQ and who would benefit from being identified and having their talents nurtured.
Written by Donna Y. Ford, Ph.D. and H. Richard Milner, Ph.D., this guide offers practical advice for building gifted education programs that serve a rich diversity of students. This book features an overview of multicultural gifted education, effective teaching strategies and best practices that support a diverse population of students, and an effective model for building a diverse, successful gifted program. The book also includes a sample curriculum and an extensive listing of print and Web-based recommended resources.
This book discusses proven, practical ways to recognize and nurture young gifted children and create a learning environment that supports all students.
Professor Alexinia Baldwin explores the many ways in which giftedness (intellectual potential) has been overlooked because of an individual's cultural group, handicap, or challenging condition. Baldwin presents the reader with practical suggestions to help provide a more appropriate education to develop the intellectual strengths of these children.
John Philo Dixon decribes ways to identify spatial children by addressing their cognitive perception and offers advice on methods of teaching in the classroom.
This book by authors Sally Yahnke Walker and Susan Perry offers up-to-date, authoritative information about giftedness, gifted educucation, problems, personality traits, and more. You'll learn what 'giftedness' means, how kids are identified as gifted, and what's good—and bad—about the label. You'll find out how to keep from raising a 'nerd,' how to prevent perfectionism, and how to advocate for your child at school.
This book offers insights into the intellectual and emotional development of exceptional children. Contributors explore the nature of giftedness and how to recognize it in youngsters; the complexities of the creative process; standardized tests and their effectiveness in asserting potential; and developmental theories and how they relate to the identification of gifted children. Several chapters also examine young prodigies and the diversity of personalities and talents that exist among the gifted.
This book by editors Susan Baum and Sally M. Reis, is from the Essential Readings in Gifted Education Series and addresses how special learning needs, cultural expectations and issues of poverty greatly complicate the identification of gifts and talents among at-risk students. Key topics include strategies for identifying giftedness masked by gender, cultural, economic, and/or behavioral issues
This book edited by Kiesa Kay brings together perspectives from educators, parents, researchers, and students about what works and what doesn't for twice exceptional students. Many asynchronous learners exist in the profoundly gifted population, and in addition to chapters by well-known researchers, the book contains heartfelt essays by parents and teens.
Author Michael S. Matthews, Ph.D. introduces educators to the complexities and challenges of providing appropriate educational experiences for gifted English Language Learners. This unique, comprehensive book guides educators toward identifying gifted students in this population, including a look at nonverbal and Spanish-language testing, and gives advice for integrating these students into any gifted program.
An estimated 500,000 potentially gifted children are born each year. Since most schools don't begin to test for giftedness until about age 8, it is left to parents to recognize and nurture their children's special talents and abilities in the early critical years. Written by Joan Franklin Smutny, Kathleen Veenker and Stephen Veenker, this intelligent, insightful, and useful book is a complete guide to identifying gifted children and helping them develop to the fullest.
Compiled by the Davidson Institute for Talent Development, this comprehensive table provides a schedule of Talent Search programs in the United States. Much of the information is applicable to summer programs.
The Academic Talent Search (ATS) is a testing program designed primarily for students in grades 6-10. It identifies students with extraordinary mathematical and/or verbal reasoning abilities, and offers an opportunity to sharpen test-taking skills in preparation for the PSAT and SAT Reasoning Test well in advance of the crucial junior and senior years of high school. The ATS also assists participants in their placement in UCI Gifted Student Network programs.
BESTS is designed to identify, via above-level testing, students in grades 4-9 who need further educational challenge to fully realize their academic talent. Above-level testing is an educational procedure in which a test developed for older students is administered to younger students. BESTS students are eligible to participate in Belin-Blank Center precollege programs. The Center currently offers ten different summer programs as well as an academic-year program that takes place on selected Saturdays during the fall and spring semesters.
This talent search identifies academically talented third through sixth graders by giving them a test designed for eighth graders.
Formerly known as Rocky Mountain Academic Talent Search, the Center for Bright Kids (CBK) offers K-12 enrichment and acceleration programming for high interest and high ability kids. Their focus is not only on how kids think and learn, but how they discover ways to navigate the world while thinking and learning differently. CBK has offered the Western Academic Talent Search, Summer Programs, and other youth programs for 28 years.
The Center for Talented Youth (CTY) at Johns Hopkins University focuses on the needs of students with exceptionally high academic abilities. These students need special attention: greater academic challenges, interaction with intellectual peers, and teaching strategies designed especially for the gifted.
The College of DuPage offers gifted students in grades 3 - 12 the opportunity to take courses in math, science, information technology, problem solving, literature, language and writing. Located in Glen Ellyn, Illinois, this talent search admits students who score in the 95th percentile or higher on a qualifying standardized test.
NUMATS serves students in grades 3 through 9 in Indiana, Michigan, Minnesota, Ohio, Wisconsin, Illinois, North Dakota and South Dakota. Through above-grade-level testing, NUMATS accurately identifies student ability; matches high-achieving students with appropriately challenging programs and resources, and serves as a gateway to programs and resources for gifted students both at Northwestern University as well as nation-wide. NUMATS also provides support to the parents and educators of academically talented students.
Academic Talent Search is sponsored by California State University Sacramento and is designed for high achieving students currently enrolled in sixth through ninth grade. The benefits of ATS include: providing students with an opportunity to accelerate their learning in traditional subjects like mathematics and to experience new topics which are not always available in regular schools; the ATS teaching staff includes University faculty, community college professors, high school instructors and industry professionals; through ATS, students have the opportunity to experience a collegiate environment.
The Duke University Talent Identification Program (Duke TIP) identifies gifted children in 4th, 5th and 7th grades and provides resources to nurture the development of these exceptionally bright youngsters. Duke TIP is committed to serving this unique group of students by providing services and programs beyond what is offered in the classroom. Through Duke TIP, a whole range of activities and programs are accessible to parents and teachers to meet the individual needs of gifted children.
The University of Washington is home to an internationally unique and renowned resource for gifted students, the Halbert and Nancy Robinson Center for Young Scholars. For more than 25 years, the Robinson Center has been the gateway through which some of the brightest young scholars in Washington State enter the UW and/or participate in academically accelerated summer courses. The Early Entrance Program is the Robinson Center’s original early university entrance program. The UW Academy is the premier early university entrance program for high school students in Washington State. The Robinson Center for Young Scholars at the University of Washington offers summer academic programs for students finishing the 5th-10th grade.
This service, research, and instructional center is concerned with the identification and development of creative potential and with gifted and future studies. Its goals are to investigate, implement, and evaluate techniques for enhancing creative thinking and to facilitate national and international systems that support creative development.
The Federal TRIO Programs are educational opportunity outreach programs designed to motivate and support students from disadvantaged backgrounds by providing consistent access to resources, a structured environment in which to reach their postsecondary goals, and an opportunity to learn more about the various aspects of college planning and college life.
Educational Talent Search is a federally funded program that identifies and serves individuals interested in post secondary education or vocational training. Academic counseling: educational planning, (SEOP), study skills, time management, learning styles, ACT preparation, and tutoring are also available.
The Washington Search for Young Scholars (WSYS) was created to identify and work with capable students, families and schools to develop more opportunities. WSYS is modeled after other talent searches affiliated with universities around the US: students who score high on achievement tests are invited to register with WSYS. Fifth and 6th grade participants qualify by documenting their high achievement test performance. Seventh and 8th grade participants take the ACT to qualify.
WCATY offers many opportunities for talented students in Wisconsin. These include on-line programs during the school year, and enrichment and accelerated courses through their residential programs during the summer months. In addition, WCATY is the Wisconsin affiliate for the Midwest Talent Search.
This Talent Search creates five sets of five problems each and distributes them to high school and middle school students in the state of Wisconsin and throughout the world. Each year, top Wisconsin performers in the Talent Search will be eligible to compete for the Van Vleck Scholarship at the University of Wisconsin in Madison. The scholarship will pay $6,000 per year for four years.
This is a private school and clinic in operation for more than 30 years specializing in educational programs for traditional students and students whose language processing deficits, other learning difficulties, or individual learning styles impede their academic achievement. We create supportive, individualized academic programs in reading, writing, spelling, and mathematics to help students improve the skills that will enable them to reach their full potential.
Gifted Education Press is one of the leading publishers of books and periodicals on identifying and teaching the gifted. The company produces numerous rigorous books in the sciences, mathematics and humanities, as well as a quarterly publication, Gifted Education Press Quarterly.
Pearson Education sells tests for school-age students that provide insight about achievement, ability, behavior, and communication. The also sells psychological assessments to measure intelligence, achievement, development, behavior, and personality.
TalentIgniter is the result of Dr. Deborah Ruf's work to develop affordable methods for helping families and individuals with personal assessments and guidance. The first products are for parents who wish to find out the intellectual profile of their child. This is accomplished through the completion of a Developmental Milestones online inventory. Parents fill in the blanks and receive their child’s Ruf Estimates of Levels of Giftedness. For those interested in more information, a constellation of family personality typing is available online, too. Feedback is customized for the entire family to guide parents in their job as parents as well as help them know which options and school settings will work best for their particular child.
"The system for identifying gifted and talented students described in this article is based on a broad range of research that has accumulated over the years on the characteristics of creative and productive individuals (Renzulli, 1986). Essentially, this research tells us that highly productive people are characterized by three interlocking clusters of ability, these clusters being above average (though not necessarily superior) ability, task commitment, and creativity."
This About.com site is filled with articles, a blog and other useful information for anyone interested in learning more about gifted students. Topics include how to identify gifted young people, their educational needs and parenting help.
This article provides an overview of the process involved with assessing gifted children. Author Julia Osborn covers a number of issues related to assessment, including: The differences between testing and assessment; the relevance of the child's age, intellectual ability and educational ability and more. Osborn highlights the fact that there are both similarities and differences in the assessment process between gifted students and other types of children.
This webpage is a resource guide for teachers, including information about gifted students, how to identify gifted students, how to work with gifted students, and additional resources. Also, parents may find it useful in working with educators.
In this article from the LearnNC.org website, Cathy Kroninger emphasizes the importance of understanding gifted children. She gives tips for identifying gifted learners, strategies for teaching and using resources to gain a better understanding of the gifted.
Helen Dowland is a Gifted Education Consultant who specializes in analyzing problems and developing practical solutions. On her website, she offers advice and a great variety of downloadable documents for personal use by parents and teachers.
Practical Assessment, Research and Evaluation (PARE) is an online journal that provides education professionals access to articles that can have a positive impact on assessment, research, evaluation, and teaching practice, especially at the local education agency (LEA) level.
This article, on Wrightslaw.com, is a useful starting point for understanding more about assessment. Authors: Peter W. D. Wright, Esq. and Pamela Darr Wright, M.A., M.S.W.
This is such a great resource to help parents understand tests and measurements. It talks about evidence and law of testing, the process of educational decision-making, statistics and general principles. It also discusses the bell curve and understanding the test data. This is a very in-depth article.