Parents
TAGT strives to provide parents with tools and resources that will assist them in understanding and meeting the unique needs of their gifted and talented children through awareness, advocacy and action. It is important for parents to be good advocates for their gifted child and for gifted education in general. Depending on the circumstances and the specific needs of your child this may require a number of different strategies.
Resources for parents and guardians of gifted individuals:
- 13 Helpful Phrases You Can Say to Calm an Anxious Child
- Acceleration Institute
- American Mensa
- Dabrowski’s Theory and Existential Depression in Gifted Children and Adults (Webb)
- Demystifying Homework Struggles
- Emotional Intensity in Gifted Students: Helping Kids Cope with Explosive Feelings (Amazon)
- Finding Age Appropriate Books for Gifted Readers
- Gifted, Bullied, Resilient: A Brief Guide for Smart Families (Amazon)
- Genius Denied How to Stop Wasting Our Brightest Young Minds
- Gifted Development Center
- If This is a Gift, Can I Send It Back? (Amazon)
- Just what is gifted and talented?
- Make Your Worrier a Warrior: A Guide to Conquering Your Child's Fears (Amazon)
- A Nation Empowered (PDF)
- Navigating in a Social World: Strategies for Motivating Gifted Children (PDF)
- A Parent's Guide to Gifted Teens: Living with Intense and Creative Adolescents (Amazon)
- A Response to “All Children Are Gifted” by Michael C. Thompson (PDF)
- Texas Parents of the Profoundly Gifted
- The Gifted Resource Center of New England
- The Misunderstood Face of Giftedness
- 2e Twice-Exceptional Newsletter
- Bright Not Broken (Amazon)
- Critical Issues in the Identification of Gifted Students with Co-Existing Disabilities The Twice-Exceptional
- Dr. Temple Grandin: Bright Not Broken (YouTube)
- IDEA Applies To ‘Twice Exceptional’ Students Too
- Smart-Shaming: Sorry But Your Child Is Too Bright To Qualify for Help by Dr. Dan Peters
- The Search for Shangri-La: Finding the Appropriate Educational Environment for Gifted and Twice-Exceptional Children, A Parents’ Guide
- When Parenting Twice-Exceptional Kids, Not Everything Needs to be Fixed