High IQ Kids: Collected Insights, Information, and Personal Stories from the Experts (Paperback)

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Profoundly gifted kids often get the least help in school. It’s assumed they’re smart enough to succeed on their own, plus teachers (and parents) feel out of their depth with these unique kids. A blend of personal stories and practical strategies, scholarly articles and entertaining essays from a community of voices—parents, educators, authors, researchers, and other experts—this book addresses the joys and challenges of raising and teaching, living with and understanding exceptionally gifted kids of all ages. Recommended for any adult who wants to know more (and may be desperate to know more) about high-IQ kids and how to support them, advocate for them, and meet their social, emotional, and learning needs. Contributors include Karen Rogers, Ph.D., Carolyn Kottmeyer, Sally Reis, Ph.D., Joyce VanTassel-Baska, Ed.D., Miraca U. M. Gross, Ph.D., and many more. 

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Product Details Paperback: 384 pages Publisher: Free Spirit Publishing; illustrated edition edition (September 10, 2007) Language: English ISBN-10: 1575422611 ISBN-13: 978-1575422619 Product Dimensions: 8.8 x 7 x 0.9 inches Shipping Weight: 1.3 pounds (View shipping rates and policies) Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews) Amazon.com Sales Rank: #483,331 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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Product Details

• Paperback: 384 pages
• Publisher: Free Spirit Publishing; illustrated edition edition (September 10, 2007)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1575422611
• ISBN-13: 978-1575422619
• Product Dimensions: 8.8 x 7 x 0.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.3 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #483,331 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Informative and inspiring vignettes , December 5, 2007

By	Lorel Shea "gifted education at bellaonline.com" (New England) - See all my reviews (TOP 1000 REVIEWER)

High IQ Kids- Collected Insights, Information, and Personal Stories from the Experts is not a guidebook on how to raise a profoundly gifted child. It is, rather, a collection of deeply moving personal experiences from parents of highly to profoundly gifted children packaged together with professional observations from some of the world's foremost experts on these children. Children who are twice exceptional are given center stage, which is not surprising, as Kiesa Kay, the project's originator, is a well known champion of children who are both profoundly gifted and also learning disabled or challenged. Kay is co-editor of the book, along with Deborah Robson and Judy Fort Brenneman.

High IQ Kids is for both parents and for educators who may be searching for answers as to how to address the needs of a child who is "way out there" on the far right of the bell curve. Stories alternate between touching and humorous; informative and inspirational. Unfortunately, there is no single "right" way to raise and educate these enigmas. Highly gifted children are different both inside and out, and they tend to learn in a manner that is unusual; not just faster than the norm.

I particularly loved Annemarie Roeper's chapter on the SAI model of education. Roeper says, "Giftedness includes heart and soul and is not limited to intelligence and achievement." I find her ideas on education and life for profoundly gifted kids to be very uplifting. She views gifted individuals holistically, and not just as a set of numbers on a test.

Carolyn K., founder of the number one online resource for and about gifted children, Hoagie's Gifted, outlines her family's struggles with school advocacy. Eldest child "Dolphin" is followed through the ups and downs of her public school career. As one with some insider information, I believe it would enhance the story to have included details of Dolphin's more recent success with early college.

"Normal Kids Don't Quack" by Cathy Marciniak is a hilarious look at life with high IQ children. Cathy muses, "My life is full of things that other parents can't relate to." A baby who quacks, a seven year old who wonders if she should pick up her beanie babies in a, "sequential, chronological,or alphabetical" order... normal is a relative term, isn't it?

Annette Revel Sheeley and Linda Silverman collaborate on a chapter titled, "Defining the Few" which opens the book and sets the stage for later reading with a clear description of the various levels of giftedness. This entire book is based upon the "old" SBLM standards, so referenced IQ scores are on a scale that measures beyond two hundred. Sheeley and Silverman continue to recommend the Stanford Binet form L-M for children who have taken a more modern IQ test and scored 99th percentile on two or more subtests. These more commonly used tests, such as the Wechslers, have an upper limit of 160.

An excellent piece on homeschooling profoundly gifted children by Kathryn Finn might just nudge parents on the fence into giving it a try. Homeschooling has become a commonplace educational solution for gifted kids, and it offers many advantages.

There are many other notable contributors to High IQ Kids, including Dierdre Lovecky, Karen Rogers, Sally Reis, Miraca Gross, and Stephanie Tolan.

3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars High IQ Kids: Collected Insights, Information, and Personal Stories from the Experts, January 22, 2008

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High IQ Kids: Collected Insights, Information, and Personal Stories from the Experts

I really like this book with all the different perspectives it offers from its many different writers. Its biggest plus point is that it draws from a vast variety of writers with articles ranging from good to really great. I would highly recommend this book to anyone with a suspected HG+ child. It was also personally illuminating, reflecting back on my own childhood difficulties and how some of them could have been avoided...

0 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Average not high on this one, April 24, 2009

By	L. J. Spector (Ann Arbor, MI USA) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

There are many books on this subject. This one is a collection of essays, and as such has "highs and lows". There were some essays I found "spoke to me" and informed what I feel and know to be true about high IQ kids and adults; others were either flat or not terribly informative. I am happy to have this in my collection, to draw on, but it isn't my "go to" book.