Gifted Children's
Resource Guide

The following links provided by Mensa in Georgia

Georgia Links for Gifted Children

• Georgia Association for Gifted Children
• Fulton County Supporters of the Gifted  in Fulton County, Georgia

Foundations and Associations

• National Association for Gifted Children (US)
• TAG Family Network
• Pennsylvania Association for Gifted Education (PAGE)
• The National Foundation for Gifted and Creative Children
• American Association for Gifted Children
• Newfoundland and Labrador Association for Gifted Children (NLAGC)
• National Association for Gifted Children (UK)
• California Association for the Gifted
• Iowa Talented and Gifted Association
• Texas Association for the Talented and Gifted
• Gifted Child Society
• Gifted Education: The Australian Association for the education of the gifted and talented
• NSW Association for Gifted & Talented Children Inc. (AU)
• Gifted Children's Association of B.C. (Canada)
• The Association of Educators of Gifted, Talented and Creative Children in B.C. (Canada)
• Centre for Gifted Education (Alberta, Canada)
• Council for Exceptional Children

Educational Programs

• Jacob K. Javits Gifted and Talented Education Program
  Grants for developing programs  from U.S. Department of Education
• Junior Scholars Program Home Page at Miami University, Ohio
• Center for Talented Youth (CTY) at Johns Hopkins University
• Talent Identification Program (TIP) at Duke University
• EDUCATION PROGRAM FOR GIFTED YOUTH (EPGY) at Stanford University
• Academic Talent Development Program U.C. Berkeley
• Rhodes College Young Scholars
• The Advanced Academy of Georgia
• Kalamazoo Area Mathematics and Science Center (KAMSC),
  Math and Science Magnet School at Kalamazoo, MI
• The Mississippi School of Mathematics and Science
• Center for Excellence in Education Summer program in Science and Math
• Gifted Students Institute Southern Methodist University, Dallas, TX
• Center for Talent Development Information  Northwestern University
• Governor's Program for Gifted Children  Louisiana
• MacMurry College Programs for the Gifted

Other Educational Resourses

• Gifted Ed Gophers  at William and Mary
• Awesome Library organizes the Web of education resources
• School Atlas, the academic supersite
• Sasha's List of Educational Resources
• The Cyber Classroom
• Indiana Department of Education Gifted/Talented Web Site
• QUEST-Puyallup, WA
• Elk Grove Unified School District Gifted And Talented Education
• EdWeb, a general education on-line resource tool
• Academic Resource Center  in Leon County, Tallahassee, FL
• Center for Talent Development  at Northwestern University

List Servers/Newsgroups

• About The TAGFAM and other Gifted Education Mailing Lists
• GiftedNet -- Centre for Gifted Children at the College of William and Mary
• Tag-L
• Newsgroups: mensa.sigs.giftedchildren

Surfing the Net for Resources

• The Learning Network
• Surfing the Internet for Gifted Education
• British Educational Communications and Technology Council (BECTa--formerly NCET--in U.K.)
• Northwestern University Center for Talent Development Resources

Software Aids for Parents

• SurfWatch
• CyberSitter
• N2H2 - Server resident Internet filters
• Cyber Patrol

Publishers and Suppliers of Gifted Materials

• Prufrock Press -- A publisher of Gifted Ed. Materials
• Geode Educational Options  -- Seller of Materials
• Creative Learning Press, Inc.

The following links and commentary provided by Steve Nord

Need Help?

• B.J. Pinchbeck
  Need homework help or just want to learn something new? This site has a most comprehensive list of links.

Giftedness

• DiScanner's Giftedness Resources Index
  Diane is a dedicated mother of a gifted son and great site builder. A wonderful resource!

• US Dept. of Ed: National Excellence: A Case for Developing America's Talent
  A 1993 document lamenting the state of gifted education. Oh, if Clinton were only half as dedicated to education as he claims...

• Roeper Review
  THE journal on giftedness is published by the Roeper School.

• Hollingworth Center for Highly Gifted Children
  A volunteer, non-profit corporation.

• The Rocamora School
• The Rhode Island Advisory Committee on Gifted and Talented Education
• The Gifted Development Center
  This is Linda Silverman's organization in Denver. Read her information on visual-spatial learners and IQ testing.

• The Association of Educators of Gifted, Talented and Creative Children of B.C.
  Resources for gifted children and teachers.

• The Comprehensive Gifted Resources site
  I originally created my Glossary in response to a request from the operator of this site, yet they don't have a link back to me. So just how comprehensive is it?

• The National Foundation for Gifted and Creative Children
• Is It A Cheetah?
  Stephanie Tolan's metaphor on what it is like to be gifted. EXCELLENT!

• Supporting the Emotional Needs of the Gifted
  An organization at Kent State University centered around the social/emotional aspects of giftedness, with a mailing list (sign up!)

• Gifted Children Monthly
• Gifted Psychology Press
  James T. Webb's publisher. He was co-author (with Stephanie Tolan and Elizabeth Meckstroth) of one of the best books on giftedness: Guiding the Gifted Child (1982).

• Precocious and Prodigious Message Board
  I have read much here, and it appears to be a good interactive medium for those involved with the highly gifted.

• American Association for Gifted Children
• National Association for Gifted Children
  A school-centered (as opposed to student-centered or parent-centered) national organization.

• School Is Dead: Books on IQ and Human Intelligence
  If you are interested in the validity of IQ tests, this is a great bibliography.
  

Other Education Sites

• Dyslexia, the Gift
  The incidence of learning disabilities and giftedness in the same person seems to be very common. Be sure to check out this site!

• The History of Education
  I, personally, marvelled when I found this site! If you are at all interested in the history or philosophy of education, check it out!

• Rethinking Schools Home Page

• Middle Web.
  Resources for those who, like me, deal with those most diverse - middle schoolers.

• Education and Policy Analysis Archives at ASU.
• Qualitative Interest Group (QUIG) at Georgia
  A gopher archive of educational research.

• National Association of School Psychologists
• Northwest Education Magazine
• Web66: International WWW School Registry
• Books On-line: Call Numbers Starting With L (Education)
• U.S. Department of Education

Sociology, Psychology, Development, etc.

• A Sociological Social Psychology
  A meta-information page. An overview of how humans see the world and try to understand it. I like it. I like it a lot!

• Social Psychology Network
• A Sociological Tour Through Cyberspace
• SocioSite
  The most comprehensive and user-friendly site for sociological resources on the Web.

• Tillier's Dabrowski
  An understanding of Dabrowski's theories is extraordinarily valuable.

• Multiple Intelligences
  A summary of the work of Howard Gardner, et al.

• Behaviorists For Social Responsibility
  An oxymoron? After all, behaviorism is strictly deterministic, so social responsibility simply does not matter in their world view!

• International Sociological Association
• American Sociological Association
• Pacific Sociological Association
• Society for the Study of Symbolic Interaction
• Society for Applied Sociology
• The Thomas S. Szasz Cybercenter for Liberty and Responsibility
• Psych Web List of Scholarly Psychology Resources
• EEG Spectrum Articles for Professionals
  Biofeedback is the most effective treatment for (what is currently diagnosed as) ADD or ADHD, but CIBA-GEIGY and C.H.A.D.D. would rather that you didn't know.

• Adolescence: Change and Continuity
• Adolescence Resources
  Resources for parents, teachers, counselors, and teens themselves.

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