Resources for Parents of Gifted Children

Books:

• Helping Gifted Children Soar: A Practical Guide for Parents and Teachers by Carol Ann Strip, Gretchen Hirsh (Contributor)
• The Social and Emotional Development of Gifted Children: What Do We Know? by Maureen Neihart (Editor), et al
• Smart Girls: A New Psychology of Girls, Women, and Giftedness by Barbara A. Kerr
• When Gifted Kids Don't Have All the Answers: How to Meet Their Social and Emotional Needs by Jim Delisle, et al (Paperback)
• Educating Your Gifted Child by Vicki Caruana ISBN 1-58134-356-6
• Extraordinary Minds by Howard Gardner ISBN 0-465-0212505
• Gifted Children by Ellen Winner ISBN 0-465-01759-2
• The Gifted Kids’ Survival Guide by Judy Galbraith and Jim Delisle ISBN 1-57542-003-1
• How the Gifted Brain Learns by Davis Sousa ISBN 0-7619-3829-X

• The Nurturing Parent: How to Raise Creative, Loving, Responsible Children by John S. Dacey and Alex J. Packer ISBN 0-671-77145-0

• Stand Up for Your Gifted Child by Joan F. Smutny ISBN 1-57542-088-0
• Work Left Undone: Choices and Compromises of the Talented Female by Sally Reis ISBN 0-936386-76-2
• Your Gifted Child: How to Recognize and Develop the Special Talents in Your Child form Birth to Age Seven by Joan Smutny, Kathleen Veenker and Stephen Veenker
• ISBN 0-345-36830-4
• Some of my Best Friends are Books: Guiding Gifted Readers by Judith Wynn Halsted

Websites:

• www.hoagiesgifted.org/organizations.htm
  This site provides a starting point for further searches.
• www.gifteddevelopment.com
  Addresses the social-emotional aspects of giftedness, visual-spatial learners, and the profoundly gifted.
• www.ditd.org/
  Davidson Institute for profoundly gifted children.
• www.hollingworth.org/
  Hollingworth Center for highly gifted children and their families. 

Programs:

• Odyssey of the Mind Competition - www.odysseyofthemind.com
• Northwestern University - www.ctd.northwestern.edu
• College of DuPage - www.cod.edu/ComConEd/TalSearc.htm
• Belin-Blank Center for Gifted at University of Iowa www.uiowa.edu/~belinctr/resources
• National Louis University - www.centerforgifted.com
• Avery Coonley summer programs
• University of Missouri Columbia High School Independent Study Courses (800)609-3727
• Future Problem Solving Bowl – State and national competitions.
  Illinois website www.fpsp.org/affiliate/il.html

Publications:

• Imagine published by John Hopkins Univ. Center for Talented Youth http://cty.jhu.edu/imagine
• Free Spirit Publishing – www.freespirit.com
  online catalogue section for gifted children 

Organizations:

• IAGC – Illinois Association for Gifted Children - http://iagcgifted.org/
• NAGC – National Association for Gifted Children - www.nagc.org/