Articles

• NAGC/SENG Pediatrician’s Brochure - A service bulletin to help parents better understand the characteristics of gifted children and the steps they can take to support their child.
• Creativity Shows Up Early and in Many Ways - Characteristics of emerging creativity, and tips for parents to support their kids’ creativity.
• No Child is Just Born Gifted: Creating and Developing Unlimited Potential - Giftedness, nature, nurture, and the importance of parenting are discussed.
• Success for Life: What Really Matters? - Specific suggestions for encouraging your child, no matter how you define success.

All articles: copyright 2009 NAGC. Reprinted with permission of the National Association for Gifted Children. No further reprints or redistribution is permitted without the consent of NAGC.

Books

• A Nation Deceived: How Schools Hold Back America’s Brightest Students Colangelo, N., Assouline, S. G., & Gross, M. U. M. (2004). The Templeton National Report on Acceleration. Iowa City: University of Iowa.
• On the Social and Emotional Lives of Gifted Children: Issues and Factors in their Psychological Development, 2nd edition. Cross, T. (2004). Waco, TX: Prufrock
• Re-forming of Gifted Education: Matching the Program with the Child. Rogers, K. B. (2002). Scottsdale, AZ: Great Potential Press
• Comprehensive Curriculum for Gifted Learners, 3rd edition. Van Tassel Baska, J. & Stambaugh, T. (2006). Boston: Pearson
• A Parents Guide to Gifted Children. Webb, J.T., Gore, J.L., Amend, E.R., & DeVries, A.R. (2007). Scottsdale, AZ: Great Potential Press

Websites

• The Indiana Association for the Gifted (IAG) is a statewide organization promoting appropriate services for gifted youth.
• The National Association for Gifted Children (NAGC) is a national advocacy organization for parents, educators, and others concerned about the development of potential. This link is to a parent information section on the NAGC website.
• The National Research Center on the Gifted and Talented (NRC/GT), sponsored by the U.S. Department of Education, investigates, develops, and disseminates new methods for identifying and teaching gifted students. The NRC/GT, located at the University of Connecticut, is run collaboratively with the University of Virginia, and works in conjunction with more than 300 public school district research study sites.
• The Association for the Gifted (TAG), organized in 1958 by The Council for Exceptional Children, helps professionals and parents work with gifted children.
• The Davidson Institute for Talent Development has extensive resources for highly gifted students and their parents
• Supporting Emotional Needs of the Gifted (SENG) focuses primarily on the adults (parents, educators, etc.) in the lives of gifted children. SENG provides information on identification, guidance, and effective ways to live and work with gifted individuals.
• Hoagies’ Gifted Education Page is a resource guide for the education of gifted children with links to many gifted education resources available on the Internet.
• Gifted Learning Links is an online learning program offered by Northwestern University’s Center for Talent Development.