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Your Preschooler Might Be Gifted: A Special Guide for Parents

Does Your Preschooler: learn quickly and remember easily? seem mature for his or her age? use a large vocabulary and read and display an unusual interest in words or already reads independently? experiment to solve problems? prefer older playmates? seem sensitive? ...
Reference | American Association for Gifted Children

Activities for Gifted Children: From Birth to Five

Baby's brain Scientists say a baby's brain is a fascinating bundle of neurons just waiting to be hard-wired into the intricate circuitry we call the mind. The wiring of the brain begins at birth and continues until age 10 or 12 when it is wired for life, according to these findings. Some ...
Reference | American Association for Gifted Children

Books for Gifted Young Children

Check these out at the Public Libraries! The Caldecott Medal Winners The Caldecott Medal, named in honor of nineteenth-century English illustrator Randolph Caldecott, is awarded annually by the Association for Library Service to Children, a division of the American Library Association, to the ...
Reference | American Association for Gifted Children

Gifted Children and Television

Gifted children learn to speak and develop sophisticated language patterns well in advance of their age-mates. Their verbal and reading fluency and comprehension improve rapidly (Cohn, Cohn, & Kanevsky, 1988). Does this mean that they might also be capable of watching television at any earlier ...
Reference | American Association for Gifted Children

School Preparation

Preparing young children for school starts with their birth. The first three years are now thought to be the most important time for cognitive development in children. Parents play an important role as the first teachers to their children. Parents, from the beginning need to interact with children ...
Reference | American Association for Gifted Children

Characteristics and Traits of a Gifted Preschooler

(Witty, 1958; Roeper, 1977; Feldhusen & Kolloff, 1979; Hanninen, 1979; Whitmore, 1980) Language and Learning talks and reads early and has a large vocabulary demonstrates advanced language proficiency enjoys self-expression, especially in discussion has unique learning ...
Reference | American Association for Gifted Children

Enrichment Activities and Resources for Gifted Children

The child who has a good understanding of abstract concepts and has a strong reasoning ability neds the challenge of activities that incorporate "higher level" thinking skills. Rather than simply asking children to recite or repeat what they have learned, ask them to compare and contrast, ...
Reference | American Association for Gifted Children

Tips for Parents: Teasing, Bullying, and the Role of Friendships

Fred Frankel, Ph.D., ABPP, Director of the UCLA Children's Friendship Program, and author of Good friends are hard to find: Help your child find, make and keep friends and Children's Friendship Training, led an informational seminar for parents of profoundly intelligent children on ...
Reference | Davidson Institute for Talent Development

Straight Talk: Helping Bright Teens Through Tough Times

Let's face it - raising a child is difficult. Add to this fact all the characteristics of exceptionally bright young people that make this population unique. As they get older, they begin to move through adolescence, puberty, and teenage years. On any given day, it's likely that you already have a ...
Reference | Davidson Institute for Talent Development

An Integral Approach to the Social and Emotional Development of the Profoundly Gifted

Like all children profoundly gifted children have essential needs for connecting to others, for being understood, for expressing and exploring feelings and ideas, for reciprocal exchange and for friendship. The exceptional nature of PG children and their rarity in the population, ...
Reference | Davidson Institute for Talent Development