Gifted children

The most typical characteristics of gifted children. Check this list and discover if your child might be gifted. Learn what signifiies giftedness.

When you're parenting gifted or twice-exceptional kids, you often feel lost and alone -- like nobody will ever truly get what you live on a day-to-day basis. I felt that way, and it's one of the reasons I created RLL in the first place... I hoped to bring other parents of tough kids together -- and to

We need to understand that gifted children are not just “bright” – a highly subjective label. 15 signs of a gifted child--read on to learn.

Yup, I just used the G-word. Did you cringe just now, when you read it? To be honest, I still cringe a little too. As the mother of a profoundly gifted and twice-exceptional child, I think that gifted is a terrible label; it brings to mind images of beautifully-wrapped packages with neatly tied bows. Our gifted reality is sometimes beautiful but complicated and challenging and anything but neat. When folks hear the word gifted, they tend to make assumptions.

Parenting a gifted or Twice-Exceptional child is exhausting, and that's why it's important we get appropriate self-care. Mothers of gifted children aren't crazy. We just can't give our children what we don't have.

Parenting a gifted or twice-exceptional child can be a challenge. I wouldn’t change our journey for the world, but parenting and educating our PG/2E son has been one of our life’s great…

I've been asked to share my assessments and those that I use. Assessments are snapshots of a child's current ability to perform a certain skill. This can show normal development, regression or advancement in the different areas. It can also identify areas of concern or where additional support may be needed. Providers see children for many hours every day, can compare them to current and former students, and see them in a variety of motor, cognitive and emotional/social situations. Often…

A Review of the book "On the Social Lives of Gifted Children" a guide for parents & educators of gifted children, help to understand their needs.

A child with a high IQ can be a bit jarring to encounter, we know. We're fairly used to the stares, but what we can never get used to are the comments.

Admit it, you've thought about it. You see your precious little one handling blocks with expert dexterity. Your heart swells as they garble through their ABCs. Your pride and joy is walking already or handles math problems with ease and you wonder, Could my child be gifted? Maybe. There is a growing community of