Academic Advocacy for Gifted Children: A Parent’s Complete Guide
January 30, 2020 - Comment
Formerly titled Empowering Gifted Minds: Educational Advocacy That Works, this book is the definitive manual on gifted advocacy for gifted students. The author tells parents and teachers how to document a child s abilities to provide reasonable educational options year by year. This book provides imperative information on testing considerations, curriculum, successful programs, and planning
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A necessary read for parents of gifted kid, even if you only suspect your child is gifted. Loved this book. I read it and ended up getting in touch with the Gifted Development Center (GDC) and Barbara (Bobbie) Gilman. if you feel like this book is helpful, a 1-2 hr paid phone consultation with the author is even more helpful! I found them so helpful that I chucked the STAR therapy program that I was considering for my gifted child who has sensory processing disorder. IN our initial phone conversation, my notes yielded so much insight and recommendations that I was able to type it…
A little dated info but the book does give a good overview of options and things to ask for in IEP’s. I wish they had an updated version with check lists.
A practical must have manual for guerilla parenting of a gifted kid This book combines academic research, powerful quotes and examples from experts, and concise, pointed writing by an author who is not an academic and has a corporate political warrior’s sense of how to cajole, circumvent and fight the Establishment of Mediocrity in education. It also helps you empathically get into your kid’s head. The stories of the gifted child’s boredom and resignation (or revolt) in schools which don’t meet their expectations rang true from my own childhood, my kid’s and…