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  • Jan & Bob Davidson with Laura Vanderkam.  Simon & Schuster. 2004.   Genius Denied:  How to Stop Wasting our Brightest Young Minds.  

  • Rita Sommers-Flanagan, Ph.D., John Sommers-Flanagan, Ph.D. Free Spirit Publishing Inc., 2002.  Problem Child or Quirky Kid?   How to help kids who don't fit in, can't get along, are too fearful, sad, anxious or angry and more.  

  • Ikaren L. J. Isaacson.  Great potential Press, Inc., 2002.  Raisin' Brains.  Surviving My Smart Family.  A delightful very funny description of family life by the mother of five creative, unique children.  

  • Alvino, J. (1985). Parents' Guide to Raising A Gifted Child. New York: Ballantine Books.
  • The Survival Guide for Parents of Gifted Kids, How to Understand, Live With, and Stock Up For Your Gifted Child, by Sally Yahnke Walker.
  • Alvino, J. (1995). Considerations and Strategies for Parenting the Gifted Child. Storrs, CT: The National Research Center on the Gifted and Talented.
  • Bireley, M, & Genschaft, J. (Eds.). (1991). Understanding the Gifted Adolescent: Educational, Developmental, and Multicultural Issues. New York: Teachers College Press.
  • Clark, B. (1992). Growing Up Gifted: Developing the Potential of Children at Home and at School. (4th Ed.) New York: Macmillan.
  • Csikszentmihalyi, M. & Rathunde, K., & Whalen, S. (1993). Talented Teenagers: The Roots of Success & Failure. New York: Cambridge University Press.
  • Delisle, J.R. (1992). Guiding the Social and Emotional Development of Gifted Youth: A Practical Guide for Educators and Counselors. New York: Longman.
  • Galbraith, J. (1983, 1984). The Gifted Kids Survival Guides, I & II. Minneapolis MN: Free Spirit Press.
  • Rimm, S.B. (1995). Why Bright Kids Get Poor Grades and What You Can Do About It. New York: Crown.
  • Saunders, J & Espeland, P. (1991). Bringing Out the Best: A Resource Guide for Parents of Young Gifted Children. Minneapolis, MN: Free Spirit Press.
  • Smutny, J.F., Veenker, K & Veenker, S. (1989). Your Gifted Child: How to Recognize and Develop the Special Talents in your Child from Birth to Age Seven. New York: Ballantine Books.
  • Supplee, P.L. (1990). Reaching the Gifted Underachiever. New York: Teacher's College Press.
  • Takacs, C.A. (1986). Enjoy Your Gifted Child. Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press.
  • Winner, E. (1996). Gifted Children: Myths and Realities. New York: HarperCollins.

Magazines

Understanding Our Gifted
Open Space Communications, Inc.
1900 Folsom, Suite 108
Boulder, CO 80302
1-800-494-6178

Highly Gifted Children
(a publication of the Hollingworth
Center for Highly Gifted Children)
827 Central Avenue #282
Dover, NH 03820-2506
1-207-655-3767

Gifted Child Quarterly &
 Parenting for high potential (both by:)
National Association for Gifted Children
1707 L Street NW, Suite 550
Washington, D.C. 20036
1-202-785-4268

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