All of these resources have a wealth of information on them. Instead of repeating their information on our site, we encourage you to please visit these sites often. They will provide you with the help you need in supporting and advocating for your child. If you know of a resource that would be beneficial to our group, please email us at bonnie <AT> richardsongifted.com
- SENG: Supporting the Emotional Needs of the Gifted
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http://www.GiftedBooks.com – Great Potential Press
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- Texas DI
ABC’s of Parenting Gifted Children
Janet Hale & Mary Lovell
TAGT Annual Conference November 13, 2008
Resource Ideas
This list is offered as a service and does not constitute an endorsement
Organizations: Each has a publication or email news providing excellent resources
National Association for Gifted Children – NAGC www.nagc.org
Supporting Emotional Needs of the Gifted – SENG www.sengifted.org
Texas Association for the Gifted – TAGT www.txgifted.org
District Parent Affiliates of TAGT – You can likely join even if you are not in the district
Gifted Students Institute, SMU www.smu.edu/education/gsi/
Duke Talent Identification Program www.tip.duke.edu Important resources for families with gifted children include the 4th/5th and 7th grade talent search programs
Davidson Institute for Talent Development www.davidsongifted.org
Education Programs for Gifted Youth – EPGY www.epgy.stanford.edu
Roeper Review & Roeper Institute www.roeper.org
Texas Academy for Mathematics of Science – TAMS www.tams.unt.edu/
American MENSA www.us.mensa.org
Web resources/groups Yahoo Groups – Moderated group lists (txgifted@yahoogroups.com)
TexasTAG – Texas homeschooling families
ParentingGiftedChildren
www.Hoagiesgifted.org All things gifted, great website, highly reliable, use as a portal
Publishers Great Potential Press www.giftedbooks.com/
Prufrock Press www.prufrock.com
Free Spirit Publishing www.freespirit.com
Alps Publishing www.alpspublishing.com
Books/authors (most have websites)
Betts, George, The Autonomous Learner Model, Optimizing Ability
Davidson, Jan & Bob, Genius Denied: How to Stop Wasting Our Brightest Minds
DeLisle, Jim, Barefoot Irreverence: A Collection of Writings on Gifted Child Education
DeVries, Arlene, What Parents Should Expect for the Gifted Child (article)
Dweck, Carol, Mindset
Eide, Brock and Fernette, The Mislabeled Child
Galbraith, Judith, Gifted Kids Survival Guide
Gross, Miraca U.M., Exceptionally Gifted Children
Neihart, Maureen, editor, Social and Emotional Development of Gifted Children: What Do We Know?
Seligman, M, The Optimistic Child
Silverman, Linda.K., What We Have Learned About Gifted Children and Characteristics of Giftedness
Rimm, Sylvia, Keys to Parenting the Gifted Child, How to Parent So Children will Learn, Why Bright Kids Get Poor Grades
Roeper, AnneMarie, My Life Experiences with Children: Selected Writings and Speeches
Tobias, Cynthia Ulrich, The Way They Learn
Tolan, Stephanie, Is it a Cheetah? (article)
VanTassel-Baska, Joyce, Excellence in Educating Gifted & Talented Learners
Waitzkin, Josh, The Art of Learning
Webb, Jim, Parenting Successful Children, Is My Child Gifted? Guiding the Gifted Child, Grandparents Guide to Gifted Children, Gifted Parent Groups: The SENG Model
Spotlight on 2-E – Twice Exceptional Newsletter
Testing/Counseling Brainworks – www.brainworks.info Carrollton, TX
Eide, Drs. Brock & Fernette, www.neurolearning.com/clinic.htm
Dr. Linda Silverman, www.gifteddevelopment.com/About_GDC/assessment.htm
Gifted Students Institute, SMU, www.smu.edu/education/gsi/students.asp
http://www.txgifted.org/advocacy Advocacy advice
http://www.txgifted.org/parent-pages/state-resources The Texas State Plan for the Education of Gifted/Talented Students
www.govtrack.us/congress/billtext.xpd?bill=h110-4137 National and State standards for gifted education (the Higher Education Act)
www.GiftedHomeschoolers.org Home schooling
www.charterstexas.org/; http://www.tea.state.tx.us/charter/faqs/faq.html charter schools
http://www.txgifted.org/parent-pages/advocacy How to start a Parent Advocacy Group
Belin-Blank Academic Talent Search
http://www.education.uiowa.edu/belinblank/
http://www.education.uiowa.edu/belinblank/TalentSearch/
John Hopkins Center for Talented Youth (CTY)
http://cty.jhu.edu/
http://cty.jhu.edu/ts/index.html
Northwestern University’s Center for Talent Development (CTD) (and Midwest
Academic Talent Search – NUMATS)
http://www.ctd.northwestern.edu/
http://www.ctd.northwestern.edu/numats/
Duke Talent Identification Program (TIP)
http://www.tip.duke.edu/
http://www.tip.duke.edu/talent_searches/
Rocky Mountain Center for Bright Kids & Western Academic Talent Search
http://www.centerforbrightkids.org/
http://www.centerforbrightkids.org/programs/academic-year-programs/western-academic-talent-search/index.html
Carnegie Mellon Institute for Talented Elementary & Secondary Students
(C-MITES)
http://www.cmu.edu/cmites/
Many universities such as these also have similar types of programs:
Washington Search for Young Scholars (no budget funds this year):
http://depts.washington.edu/cscy/programs/wsys/
UC-Irvine Center of Educational Partnerships Academic Talent Search (ATS):
http://www.giftedstudents.uci.edu/ats/
Sacramento State Academic Talent Search (ATS)
http://edweb.csus.edu/projects/ATS/
