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  • Developmental: Adolescence

    Raising the Intellectual Tide
    This article offers advice on how to challenge gifted students and higher-level thinkers through an instructional thinking tool called Depth and Complexity.

  • Developmental: Twice Exceptional

    College Success for Students with Learning Disabilities
    BOOK REVIEW (Davidson Institute) – Written by Cynthia G. Simpson, Ph.D. and Vicky G. Spencer, Ph.D., this book offers teens the confidence, strategies, and guidance they need to effectively choose a college, get prepared for university life, and make the most of their collegiate experience. Special sections also discuss ADHD and Asperger’s syndrome.

  • Support Materials: Book Reviews

    A Mind at a Time
    BOOK REVIEW (Davidson Institute) - Are you interested in gaining a deeper understanding of the learning process? If so, A Mind at a Time by Dr. Mel Levine is just the book you are looking for! Based on years of experience as a developmental-behavioral pediatrician and director of the Clinical Center for the Study of Development and Learning at the University of North Carolina Medical School, Dr. Levine has developed his own model that dissects the learning process into eight neurodevelopmental systems: attention control, memory, language, spatial ordering, sequential ordering, motor, higher thinking, and social thinking. His theory is that struggling students are experiencing a breakdown in one or more of these areas.
    A Parent's Guide to Gifted Children
    BOOK REVIEW (Davidson Institute) - Authors Dr. James Webb, Janet Gore, Dr. Edward Amend and Arlene De Vries offer insightful ideas and techniques parents will find useful in day-to-day living with their gifted child(ren). "What should we look for in a School?" Does my gifted child have a learning disability?" And, "When and how should a professional's help be sought out?” are just some of the tough questions covered in this book.
    A Parent's Guide to Gifted Teens: Living with Intense and Creative Adolescents
    BOOK REVIEW (Davidson Institute) – This is a review of Lisa Rivero’s book, A Parent’s Guide to Gifted Teens: Living with Intense and Creative Adolescents.
    Admission Matters: What Students and Parents Need to Know About Getting into College
    BOOK REVIEW (Davidson Institute) - A review of the book by authors Sally Springer and Marion Franck titled, Admission Matters: What Students and Parents Need to Know About Getting into College.
    Alternative Assessments With Gifted and Talented Students
    BOOK REVIEW (Davidson Institute) - A review of Joyce VanTassel-Baska's book Alternative Assessments With Gifted and Talented Students, which provides an introduction to methods for identifying gifted students in the school setting.
    Anxiety-Free Kids: An Interactive Guide for Parents and Children
    BOOK REVIEW (Davidson Institute) - A review of Anxiety-Free Kids: An Interactive Guide for Parents and Children by Dr. Bonnie Zucker.
    Becoming a Master Student: Tools, Techniques, Hints, Ideas, Illustrations, Examples, Methods, Procedures, Processes, Skills, Resources, and Suggestions for Success
    BOOK REVIEW (Davidson Institute) - By author Dave Ellis, this book as a must-read for all young people considering radical acceleration and/or early college entry. It has received rave reviews from members across the gifted community.
    Bright Kids Who Can't Keep Up: Help Your Child Overcome Slow Processing Speed and Succeed in a Fast-Paced World
    BOOK REVIEW (Davidson Institute) - This book review gives a brief view of what the reader can learn from authors Drs. Ellen Braaten and Brian Willoughby in their book, Bright Kids Who Can't Keep Up.
    College Planning for Gifted Students
    BOOK REVIEW (Davidson Institute) – This is a review of Sandra L. Berger’s book College Planning for Gifted Students, which provides a step-by-step breakdown of the college planning process both within and outside of the educational setting.
    Colleges That Change Lives: 40 Schools That Will Change the Way You Think About Colleges
    BOOK REVIEW (Davidson Institute) - This book by Loren Pope provides information on a number of colleges and the benefits for students at each.
    Competitions: Maximizing Your Abilities
    BOOK REVIEW (Roeper Review) - This book covers how to help elementary and secondary students find contests and competitions to enter. It also can be used by parents, educators, and other individuals working with children and young adults in the academic arena. It contains more than 100 entries in a wide variety of categories from academic to service learning, and subcategories from business to music.
    Coping for Capable Kids: Strategies for Parents, Teachers, and Students
    BOOK REVIEW (Davidson Institute) - This book review covers the content in both the adult and student editions of Coping for Capable Kids, by authors LeoNora M. Cohen, Ph.D. and Erica Frydenberg, Ph.D. The authors define giftedness and discuss its aspects at length.
    Cradles of Eminence: Childhoods of More than 700 Famous Men and Women
    BOOK REVIEW (Davidson Institute) - First published in 1964, Cradles of Eminence is a synthesis of the childhood experiences of more than 400 individuals deemed eminent by the authors; Victor Goertzel, Ted George Goetzel, Mildred George Goertzel, and Ariel Hansen. This book is sure to provoke thought on how to nurture gifted young people.
    Creative Home Schooling: A Resource Guide for Smart Families
    BOOK REVIEW (Linda Neumann, 2e Newsletter) - This article is a book review of Creative Home Schooling: A Resource Guide for Smart Families by Lisa Rivero and published by Great Potential Press.
    Designing Services and Programs for High-Ability Learners: A Guidebook for Gifted Education
    BOOK REVIEW (Davidson Institute) - This book is a joint publication between Corwin Press and the National Association for Gifted Children NAGC. It is edited by Jeanne H. Purcell & Rebecca D. Eckert.
    Developing Math Talent: A Comprehensive Guide to Math Education for Gifted Students in Elementary and Middle School
    BOOK REVIEW (Davidson Institute) - This article offers a book review of the first edition of Developing Mathematical Talent. It describes the main topics in each of the book chapters. The reviewer highly recommends this book as a resource for both parents and educators, and points out that although the book focuses on one academic area, the information is applicable to working with students in various academic domains.
    Dumbing Down America: The War on Our Nation's Brightest Young Minds (and What We Can Do To Fight Back)
    BOOK REVIEW (Davidson Institute) - With more than 35 years of experience in gifted education, Dr. James Delisle writes with immense passion in the book, Dumbing Down America: The War on Our Nation's Brightest Young Minds. Delisle calls on America for change; he urges our nation to support America’s gifted children and provide them with the same opportunities as the rest of the student population which equates to an appropriately challenging education.
    Early Entrance to College: A Guide to Success
    BOOK REVIEW (Davidson Institute) - A review of Dr. Michelle Muratori's book Early Entrance to College: A Guide to Success.
    Emotional Intensity in Gifted Students Helping Kids Cope with Explosive Feelings
    BOOK REVIEW (Davidson Institute) - Author Christine Fonseca provides her readers with useful information about the gifted population, in addition to helpful interventions in her book, Emotional Intensity in Gifted Students Helping Kids Cope with Explosive Feelings.
    Encouraging Your Child’s Science Talent: The Involved Parents’ Guide
    BOOK REVIEW (Davidson Institute) - This book review tells how author Michael Matthews provides parents with a basic foundation of science to help them better understand their child's interest in his book, Encouraging Your Child’s Science Talent: The Involved Parents’ Guide.
    Encouraging Your Child's Writing Talent: The Involved Parents' Guide
    BOOK REVIEW (Davidson Institute) - This book review gives a concise view of what the reader can learn from author Nancy Peterson in her book, Encouraging Your Child's Writing Talent: The Involved Parents' Guide.
    Fighting Invisible Tigers: A Stress Management Guide for Teens
    BOOK REVIEW (Davidson Young Scholars) - This article contains three separate book reviews by three Davidson Young Scholars of Fighting Invisible Tigers: A Stress Management Guide for Teens. All three reviewers enjoyed the book and found helpful tips on dealing with stress.
    Forging Paths: Beyond Traditional Schooling
    BOOK REVIEW (Davidson Institute) - This book takes a look at the stories of nine young people who took varying, nontraditional educational paths and succeeded in their chosen endeavors and vocations.
    Genius Denied: How to Stop Wasting Our Brightest Young Minds
    BOOK REVIEW (2e Newsletter) - It's not often that stories about the needs of the gifted are the basis for stories in the media. In 2004 things seemed to have changed. First, the book Genius Denied and then the Templeton Report: A Nation Deceived, called attention to the plight of our brightest students. Newspapers, magazines, radio and television programs finally started to discuss how attitudes and policies in the United States shortchange students with tremendous potential.
    Good Friends Are Hard to Find: Help Your Child Find, Make, and Keep Friends
    BOOK REVIEW (Davidson Institute) - This book review states how Good Friends Are Hard to Find: Help Your Child Find, Make, and Keep Friends is a great reference guide for your child in helping them deal with the struggles of making and keeping friends. As of 2010, this book is out of print, but the author has published an updated and revised edition with Jossey-Bass that has been re-titled, Friends Forever: How Parents Can Help Their Kids Make and Keep Good Friends, which is available on Kindle.
    Growing Up Gifted: Developing the Potential of Children at Home and at School
    BOOK REVIEW (Davidson Institute) - This article offers a brief review of Barbara Clark's Growing Up Gifted. Clark provides an overview of the research on acceleration (or grade skipping) for highly gifted children. The research shows "almost uniformly positive results." Clark lists several advantages for accelerating highly gifted students.
    Handbook of Secondary Gifted Education
    BOOK REVIEW (Davidson Institute) - Regardless of whether or not a reader shares all of the views presented by these authors, he or she will undoubtedly come away from this book feeling considerably more informed about the central issues of gifted secondary education and more capable of serving the needs of gifted adolescents.
    How to Parent So Children Will Learn
    BOOK REVIEW (Davidson Institute) - In this book review, it is stated that Dr. Rimm's book How to Parent So Children Will Learn gives practical, compassionate, no-nonsense advice for raising happy, secure, and productive children, from preschool to college.
    Infinity & Zebra Stripes: Life with Gifted Children
    BOOK REVIEW (Davidson Institute) - This is a book review of Wendy Skinner's book Infinity & Zebra Stripes: Life with Gifted Children.
    Iowa acceleration scale (IAS): A guide for whole-grade acceleration K-8
    BOOK REVIEW (Davidson Institute) - The Iowa Acceleration Scale is a tool to help educators and/or parents determine if grade acceleration is an appropriate option for a particular student. It also provides a basis for interactions between parents and teachers on the subject.
    Letting Go: A Parents' Guide to Understanding the College Years
    BOOK REVIEW (Davidson Institute) - A review of Letting Go: A Parents' Guide to Understanding the College Years by Karen Levin Coburn and Madge Lawrence Treeger.
    Liberating everyday genius: A revolutionary guide for identifying and mastering your exceptional gifts
    BOOK REVIEW (California Association for the Gifted) - Liberating Everyday Genius is intended to help gifted adults normalize and understand their giftedness by helping them develop their talents through a five-step process which includes: Identify Thyself, Understand Thyself, Reveal Thyself, Manage Thyself, and Liberate Thyself. Written by Marilyn Lane, this book aims to help adults normalize and develop their giftedness.
    Losing Our Minds: Gifted Children Left Behind
    BOOK REVIEW (Davidson Institute) - Losing Our Minds is a welcome addition to the literature on understanding and supporting bright young people, who are too often overlooked and therefore not provided with opportunities for appropriate learning environments. In addition to the compelling narrative punctuated with case studies, the book focuses on solutions to identified problems.
    Millicent Min, Girl Genius
    BOOK REVIEW (Davidson Young Scholars) - This article offers seven book reviews of the novel Millicent Min, Girl Genius from Davidson Young Scholars. The 2003 book by Lisa Yee, about an 11-year-old girl attending high school, received mixed reviews from our seven Young Scholars who reviewed the book. Two did not care for it, but the others seemed to like it a lot! Read all of the reviews here.
    Mindset: The New Psychology of Success
    BOOK REVIEW (Davidson Institute) - A review of Carol S. Dweck's book titled, Mindset: The New Psychology of Success.
    Misdiagnosis and Dual Diagnoses of Gifted Children and Adults
    BOOK REVIEW (Davidson Institute) - Misdiagnosis and Dual Diagnoses of Gifted Children and Adults addresses the development issues and implications of misunderstanding gifted young people and adults. The authors James, Edward, Nadia, Jean, Paul, and Richard emphasize the need for greater awareness of how giftedness (in the context of environmental factors) impacts the diagnostic process. In addition, the book provides ideas on appropriate interventions that will hopefully improve the quality of life for gifted individuals and those who interact with them.
    Moving Past Perfect: How Perfectionism May Be Holding Back Your Kids (and You!) and What You Can Do About It (formerly titled Freeing Our Families from Perfectionism)
    BOOK REVIEW (Davidson Institute) - A review of Thomas S. Greenspon's book Freeing Our Families from Perfectionism (the new edition is titled Moving Past Perfect: How Perfectionism May Be Holding Back Your Kids (and You!) and What You Can Do About It).
    Parenting Gifted Kids: Tips for Raising Happy and Successful Children
    BOOK REVIEW (Davidson Institute) - Dr. Delisle gives parents tools and strategies for understanding their children’s overexcitabilities, building meaning in their lives and working with the school systems that fail them.
    Quiet Kids: Help Your Introverted Child Succeed in an Extroverted World
    BOOK REVIEW (Davidson Institute) - This book review gives a concise view of what the reader can learn from author Christine Fonseca in her book, Quiet Kids: Help Your Introverted Child Succeed in an Extroverted World.
    Radical Acceleration of Highly Gifted Children
    BOOK REVIEW (Davidson Institute) - The reviewer finds this an excellent resource on acceleration for educators, administrators and parents who plan programs and make intervention decisions for gifted and talented students. Readers can easily access their topic of interest in this usable and friendly tool.
    Raise Your Child's Social IQ: Stepping Stones to People Skills for Kids
    BOOK REVIEW (Davidson Institute) - A Davidson Institute Family Consultant gives a quick overview of this book by Cathi Cohen. Quizzes at the beginning of each chapter help guide the reader to answers that apply to their particular situation. This book is a valuable tool for any parent wanting to avoid raising a child with a "social learning disability."
    Raisin' brains: Surviving my smart family
    BOOK REVIEW (Davidson Institute) - Karen Isaacson's popular book, Raisin' Brains discusses many issues of parenting gifted children in a way that makes the reader feel like the author is talking directly to them. This is a must read for parents of highly intelligent young people and an invaluable resource for professionals in the field.
    Raising a Gifted Child: A Parenting Success Handbook
    BOOK REVIEW (Davidson Institute) - A review of Carol Fertig’s book Raising a Gifted Child: A Parenting Success Handbook. This book offers a large menu of strategies, resources, organizations, tips, and suggestions for parents to find optimal learning opportunities for their gifted kids, covering the gamut of talent areas, including academics, the arts, technology, creativity, music, and thinking skills.
    Re-forming ( Reforming ) Gifted Education: How Parents and Teachers Can Match the Program to the Child
    BOOK REVIEW (Davidson Institute) - A review of The Re-forming of Gifted Education by Karen Rogers. From her analysis of research that spans a full century, Dr. Rogers describes various types of gifted children, as well as options for school enrichment and acceleration. She reports the effectiveness for each option according to the research. From her years of experience consulting with schools, she shows parents and teachers practical ways to design ongoing programs that best meet the needs of bright children.
    See Jane win for girls: A smart girl's guide to success
    BOOK REVIEW (Davidson Institute) - Dr. Sylvia Rimm's third book in the See Jane Win, series is a compilation of interviews and easy to follow, real-world recommendations, See Jane Win is recommended as an excellent resource for women of all ages.
    Serving Gifted Learners Beyond the Traditional Classroom: A Guide to Alternative Programs and Services
    BOOK REVIEW (Davidson Institute) - This book, Serving Gifted Learners Beyond the Traditional Classroom: A Guide to Alternative Programs and Services, by Dr. Joyce VanTassel-Baska is a "thoughtful resource for parents, educators, researchers and community leaders."
    Smart boys: Talent, manhood, and the search for meaning
    BOOK REVIEW (Belin-Blank Newsletter) - Reviewed in the Belin-Blank newsletter, Vision, Brandy Case Haub writes that the reader-friendly approach of this book, combined with intriguing narratives of individual stories, keeps the reader’s attention and makes it a quick read. This book will be most useful for the audience Kerr and Cohn specify: parents, teachers and counselors of gifted and talented boys, who wish to understand and encourage their students.
    Smart girls: A new psychology of girls, women, and giftedness
    BOOK REVIEW (Davidson Institute) - Written by Dr. Barbara Kerr, this book, Smart girls: A new psychology of girls, women, and giftedness, is an examination of how and why intelligent girls sometimes fall short of their potential, and is a useful guide for those assisting gifted girls in achieving self-actualization.
    Smart Kids with Learning Difficulties: Overcoming Obstacles and Realizing Potential
    BOOK REVIEW (Davidson Institute) - By authors Rich Weinfeld, Linda Barnes-Robinson, Sue Jeweler and Betty Roffman Shevitz, this book, Smart Kids with Learning Difficulties: Overcoming Obstacles and Realizing Potential, is highly recommended for any parent, educator or counselor interacting with gifted children with learning disabilities.
    Smart kids with school problems: Things to know and ways to help
    BOOK REVIEW (Davidson Institute) - Written by Priscilla and Patricia Vail, Smart kids with school problems: Things to know and ways to help covers strategies for helping students who are both learning disabled and gifted. The book also includes positive personal accounts of twice-exceptional students who have become highly successful learners in school.
    Some of my best friends are books
    BOOK REVIEW (Davidson Institute) - From the back cover of Some of my best friends are books by Judith Wynn Halsted: Part One offers updated background information on the emotional and intellectual needs of children of high ability. Part Two describes typical reading patterns, the need for reading guidance, and how to discuss books with young readers. Part Three is an annotated bibliography of over 300 books carefully selected to be useful in promoting intellectual and emotional development of high ability youngsters from pre-school through grade 12.
    Stand Up for Your Gifted Child: How to Make the Most of Kids' Strengths at School and at Home
    BOOK REVIEW (Davidson Institute) - Stand Up for Your Gifted Child is a practical guide that can help parents become powerful advocates for their child at school - and at home. Written by Joan Franklin Smutny, the book discusses: what giftedness is (and isn't), how to recognize your child's gifts, how to understand his or her school problems, and how to find out your district's policy on gifted education. You'll explore various options for your child's education and learn how to communicate effectively with the school and district, connect with other parents, and provide enrichment at home. Parents will discover their rights - and the benefits of taking a stand. Real-life examples show how any parent, in any situation, can advocate for his or her child.
    Talented teenagers: The roots of success and failure
    BOOK REVIEW (Carolyn Cook) - Talented Teenagers: The Roots of Success and Failure, by authors Csikszentmihalyi, Rathunde and Whalen details the findings of an extensive five-year longitudinal study that strove to answer two questions: How do young people become committed to the development of their talent? And, why do some young people become disengaged from their talent? The authors sought to find commonalities and differences between those teens that went on to use their talents into adulthood from those that drifted away from their areas of talent into jobs that required only average skills.
    Teaching genius: Dorothy DeLay and the making of a musician
    BOOK REVIEW (Nancy Robinson) - Teaching genius: Dorothy DeLay and the making of a musician is a biography of this legendary Juilliard faculty member written by Barbara Lourie Sand. The author guides you through DeLay's life as a prodigious musician, her time teaching and mentoring, the talent development model developed by Juilliard, and finally the empowering teaching style of DeLay.
    The Best Kept Secrets for Winning Scholarships
    BOOK REVIEW (Davidson Institute) - Many useful tips are found in this review of Brenda Smith's book, The Best Kept Secrets for Winning Scholarships. This book is a must-read for those applying to any college or organization for financial aid.
    The Complete Guide to the Gap Year: The Best Things to Do Between High School and College
    BOOK REVIEW (Davidson Institute) - A review of The Complete Guide to the Gap Year: The Best Things to Do Between High School and College by Kristin M. White. According to Amazon.com, this is the go-to book for anyone considering a year to re-charge, to follow a passion, to become immersed in another culture, or to find their love of learning again. It includes everything a student, parent, or guidance counselor would want to know about the gap year; including what a gap year is, what it is not, and why it can have a positive impact on a young life.
    The Difficult Child
    BOOK REVIEW (Davidson Institute) - The Difficult Child describes a parenting program developed by the author, Stanley Turecki, M.D., and his colleagues. The program is an outcome of Turecki's work with thousands of families who struggle with raising difficult children, and is based on the groundbreaking New York Longitudinal Study, which defined nine temperamental traits. The Difficult Child is a self-help book for the parents of children with difficult temperaments.
    The Examined Life: Advanced Philosophy for Kids
    BOOK REVIEW (Davidson Institute) - Author Dr. David White has provided teachers an engaging way to help students work through many philosophical theories and questions. The Examined Life: Advanced Philosophy for Kids, is divided into three sections which focus on readings that will encourage classroom debate, activities that apply philosophical theories to critical thinking, language and the arts, and suggestions on how teachers can become more reflective philosophers themselves.
    The Gifted Kids' Survival Guide: For Ages 10 and Under
    BOOK REVIEW (Davidson Institute) - The Gifted Kids’ Survival Guide: For Ages 10 and Under by Judy Galbraith is a book that can easily be read from cover to cover in one sitting. It is also a resource parents can lead their children to time and again to help them learn to handle difficult situations
    The New Public School Parent: How to Get the Best Education for Your Elementary School Child
    BOOK REVIEW (Davidson Institute) - The New Public School Parent: How to Get the Best Education for Your Child, written by Bob Chase and Bob Katz, discusses parental advocacy with schools. Grounded in real life experience and practical advice, the authors have written a book parents will find applicable to their everyday lives.
    The Resilience Factor: 7 Essential Skills for Overcoming Life’s Inevitable Obstacles
    BOOK REVIEW (Davidson Institute) - The Resilience Factor: Seven Essential Skills for Overcoming Life’s Inevitable Obstacles by authors Karen Reivich and Andrew Shatte is not a traditional motivational book, but does offer ways to overcome adversity to become a happy, well-adjusted person.
    The social and emotional development of gifted children: What do we know?
    BOOK REVIEW (Davidson Institute) - This review describes the main points of each of the four sections of The social and emotional development of gifted children: What do we know? The topics of each chapter are briefly commented on and high points are brought to the reader's attention. The book explores what research has told us about the social and emotional development of the gifted and summarizes the findings and provides resources and suggestions for working with the gifted in developing these areas.
    The Social and Emotional Lives of Gifted Kids: Understanding and Guiding Their Development
    BOOK REVIEW (Davidson Institute) - This review explains why The Social and Emotional Lives of Gifted Kids: Understanding and Guiding Their Development by Dr. Tracy Cross is a helpful tool for educators, counselors and anyone looking to recognize and respect the relationships between students' emotional, social and academic needs.
    The Social and Emotional Needs of Gifted Individuals (Chapt. 7 in Once Upon a Mind: The Stories and Scholars of Gifted Education)
    BOOK REVIEW (Davidson Institute) - This is a review of Chapter 7 of Jim Delisle's book Once Upon a Mind: The Stories and Scholars of Gifted Education. This chapter focuses on the social and emotional needs of gifted young people. The author wraps up the chapter with suggestions for meeting the emotional needs of the profoundly gifted population.
    The young gifted child: Potential and promise, an anthology
    BOOK REVIEW (Patricia A. Haensly) - The intent of The young gifted child: Potential and promise, an anthology is to "offer a framework of understanding for the many adults who cherish these gifted children as students, patients, friends, sons and daughters. The volume is divided into six parts that include an introduction to the subject area and a summary of each chapter within that section. It is designed to serve as a catalyst for discussion on many levels with many kinds of target populations: teachers, parents, counselors, graduate and undergraduate students, researchers, nursery school directors, day-care administrators, health care practitioners. The reader will naturally choose those chapters most applicable to his or her involvement with gifted young children."
    Understanding Creativity
    BOOK REVIEW (Davidson Institute) - This review explores the different sections of Understanding Creativity, giving the reader a glimpse of this unique adventure into the world of creative individuals, both past and present.
    Units of Instruction for Gifted Learners
    BOOK REVIEW (Davidson Institute) - This teaching unit, which covers aspects from the language arts, math, science and social studies disciplines, is an excellent resource for teachers interested in a constructivist interdisciplinary approach. There is a clear focus on active learning, that children should be taught to learn in a deeper context. Units of Instruction for Gifted Learners is designed for students in grades 2-8.
    Up From Underachievement: How teachers, students, and parents can work together to promote student success
    BOOK REVIEW (Davidson Institute) - Written by Diane Heacox, this book has a step-by-step process for students, parents, and teachers to work together towards success in school and break the pattern of underachievement.
    What High Schools Don’t Tell You (And other parents don’t want you to know)
    BOOK REVIEW (Davidson Institute) - A review of What High Schools Don’t Tell You (And other parents don’t want you to know) by Elizabeth Wissner-Gross. This book offers a step by step guide to the college admissions process.
    When Gifted Kids Don’t Have All The Answers: How to Meet Their Social and Emotional Needs
    BOOK REVIEW (Davidson Institute) - When Gifted Kids Don't Have All The Answers by Jim Delisle and Judy Galbraith explains what giftedness means, how gifted kids are identified, and how we might improve the identification process. Then they take a close-up look at gifted kids from the inside out-their social and emotional needs. Topics include self-image and self-esteem, perfectionism, multipotential, depression, feelings of "differentness," and stress.
    Wrightslaw: All About IEPs
    BOOK REVIEW (Davidson Institute) - The book provides practical advice on implementing effective strategies for the best possible IEP outcomes.