#6 Gifted Students Develop Asynchronously

Tuesday, July 15, 2014

“But I am sure the Naval Research Laboratory has a gift shop that sells scanning tunneling microscopes so I can create my own quantum dots with identical, deterministic…

#5 Gifted Students Often Struggle Socially

Thursday, July 10, 2014

What is Life Without Friends? The title may be misleading because, in my experience, the social struggles of gifted children are not so much that gifted children are inept…

A Gifted Child’s Owner’s Manual

Monday, July 7, 2014

We’ve probably all heard this sentiment many times as parents.  Despite all the websites, books, magazines and articles available about parenting and raising children, the information offered in any…

#4 Gifted Students Can Have Learning Disabilities

Monday, June 30, 2014

Twice-exceptional – gifted with one or more learning disabilities or learning differences. Twice-exceptional (or 2E) children can have extra burdens on them, more so than other gifted children, …

#3 Gifted Students are Often Extremely Sensitive

Tuesday, June 24, 2014

The physical and mental filter through which outside stimuli enters the mind and body of a gifted person seems to be equipped with an automatic 100X Increase Sensory…

#2 Gifted Students Often Have Emotional Intensities

Monday, June 16, 2014

  “Emotional intensity in the gifted is not a matter of feeling more than other people, but a different way of experiencing the world: vivid, absorbing, penetrating, encompassing,…