The definitive manual on gifted advocacy, this book takes parents and teachers from documenting a child’s abilities to providing reasonable educational options year by year. The necessity for daily accommodations in regular instruction (not just enrichment pull-outs) is emphasized by the children themselves—in case studies and their own accounts. Learn about the problems and solutions for gifted students: *The Experience of Giftedness *What Do We Mean by "Gifted"? *Testing Considerations *Curriculum and Instruction *Underachievement: When a Child is Too Advanced for the Educational Program *Underachievement: Gifted Children With Learning Disabilities or Other Deficits *Successful Programs for Gifted Students *Models of Advocacy for Parents *Teachers of the Gifted *Charter Schools *Planning Your Child’s Program Year By Year
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Observations on the Inner Experience by Quinn O’Leary. Foreward by Linda Silverman, Ph.D.
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"This is the critical information we share with parents and teachers in our consultations at the Gifted Development Center in Denver, but wish we could cover at greater depth."
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9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:
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The "owner's manual" for parents of gifted children...,
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This review is from: Empowering Gifted Minds: Educational Advocacy That Works (Paperback)
This is the book every parent-of-the-gifted needs to read.It starts with understanding. What is "gifted?" What does it mean, to my child, and to me? Identification through testing and assessment are detailed. What questions should I ask in selecting a tester? And then... How gifted is my child? What does this mean to her development and education? And how can this one child seem to be so many different ages at once? Asynchronous development... Academic and social / emotional development are discussed next; both must be considered. Which schools? What programs? Why? Family always plays an important role. Underachievers: are they under-challanged in school, or are there hidden learning disabilities at play? What is auditory processing deficit? Verbal expression? Dyslexia? Sensory integration? Perhaps someone has suggested attention deficit... could that be? How can I find out? What considerations should be made in educating this child? Planning my child's program year by year. What to look for in a teacher, with recommendations from a long-time elementary school teacher. What about middle school? High school? What about homeschooling, grade acceleration, and concurrent college enrollment? Advocacy... Empowering Gifted Minds discusses the many questions parents ask (or should ask!) in the years after learning their child is gifted, offering answers, ideas, and sometimes, more questions to ask. Brief case studies bring Gilman's descriptions to life. After each chapter, find print resources and websites with more information, along with the references. Throughout the book "Observations on the Inner Experience of Giftedness" by Quinn O'Leary, a very gifted young man, help illiminate the subject from an insider's perspective. Empowering Gifted Minds should be one of the very first books every parent-of-the-gifted reads!
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
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"equals or supers to those with out dyslexia...",
By Ken Arenson (Toronto, Ontario Canada) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Empowering Gifted Minds: Educational Advocacy That Works (Paperback)
Parents of gifted or gifted & LD, and teachers of gifted, now have an up to date and authoritative treatment of - testing that brings out the best in the child and what makes it so, - teaching that works for fast learners, - advocating effectively to the school for effective programming for your child, - and clearing the way for learning to occur, in a gifted or twice exceptional child, or one who the parents believe may be gifted or gifted & LD. Author, Barbara [Bobbie] Jackson Gilman, is first and foremost a testing expert and a long time member of Denver's Gifted Development Center under educational psychologist and world authority on giftedness and learning differences, Dr. Linda Silverman. We were fortunate to have Bobbie do the testing on our son because the results led to extraordinary, one-of, accommodations being granted at the superintendent level of our school board; and for our daughter, which led to a perfect placement for her as a gifted & LD child who now thrives in a gifted program with a long list of essential accommodations developed through the assessment process. For the parents, the next best thing to Bobbie doing the testing is Bobbie's book to guide your decisions on assessment and advocacy issues. What you get is her insider's view of the practical nitty-gritty of which assessment and what to advocate for. The writing is often gripping: her personal experience of raising a gifted child who gave up on school, at least temporarily; the penetrating insights of gifted youth, Quinn O'Leary; the haunting excerpts from the writings of other affected children, to name three narrative threads that run through the text. Bobbie also pays special attention to the twice exceptional child - gifted & LD -- and this child's story is powerfully represented in the children's excerpts as well. One girl's story of her struggles with dyslexia and CAPD, despite abstract reasoning ability at the 99.6% level, and learning to compensate if not overcome it, and getting rejected by all the goody girls schools but then getting into a good high school gifted program with the GDC assessment, ends on the hopeful note that infuses this book: "Even though have I have been very successful, not every academic institutes understands my learning style. I live in ... [a large city] and all the high-end privet high schools didn't accept me. I can guarantee you that I got the politest rejection letters there are in this world, but for the first time in my life I felt almost ashamed of my dyslexia even though it was only for a day or so. I thought that know with spell check and extra time I was not that hard to handle. I thought for days why I didn't get in with an 80+ average in every thing I have done since grade five it would be dead certain entry. Instead I will go to a very good public high school that has a gifted program. "Through out it all I have had a very optimistic look at life. I guess it's was in my genes to be happy and to make every thing look as good as possible. All through my life I have been challenge, with out that challenge I would have nothing to work for, so life would be boring. My advice for any one dyslexia is that no matter what don't give up because there is always the computer, calulator, and the good old agenda to solve all the problems. With these tools we are equals or supers to those with out dyslexia, and with time like red wine we only get better." Ken Arenson, parent of gifted learners, lawyer, wood-worker etc.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
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A Must-Have for Every Parent of a Gifted Child!,
By Nancy Golon (Highlands Ranch, CO United States) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Empowering Gifted Minds: Educational Advocacy That Works (Paperback)
If you are the parent of a gifted child, you MUST READ this book! Author Barbara Gilman gently guides the reader through the maze that is educational advocacy. With anecdotes from actual students and teachers, Empowering Gifted Minds is the how-to manual for ensuring that gifted children receive an education appropriate for their special needs.
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