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Updated : Fri, 09 Jan 2009 10:25:29 GMT

Sen. McCain's future (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette)
Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., has not led a life typical of a 72-year-old.
Publ.Date : Thu, 08 Jan 2009 15:43:45 GMT

Children's Talent Is Music To Parents' Ears (South Shore News & Tribune)
It's not unusual for the Cezair household to come alive with the sound of music.
Publ.Date : Wed, 07 Jan 2009 05:10:37 GMT

SCPA goes with the show (The Cincinnati Enquirer)
Nick Lachey says students at the School for Creative & Performing Arts deserve an A+ for their work in his MTV reality show.
Publ.Date : Tue, 06 Jan 2009 10:49:51 GMT

LAKE ELSINORE: Girl's film to be shown nationally (North County Times)
LAKE ELSINORE ---- Klynn Shelton enjoys making movies with her sisters and friends. They will grab a video camera and ad-lib fantasy stories about princesses and fairies.
Publ.Date : Tue, 06 Jan 2009 03:01:49 GMT

Moyock student has rare disease (The Daily Advance)
Being a middle schooler can be challenging enough. But for 12-year-old Colby Clements, the challenge also includes having a rare disease that keeps him at the hospital a lot.
Publ.Date : Sun, 04 Jan 2009 01:15:41 GMT

VIDEO: Viola Davis talks about 'Doubt' (Los Angeles Times)
Oscar upset? Viola Davis could topple Penelope Cruz in the best supporting actress category.
Publ.Date : Tue, 23 Dec 2008 17:11:50 GMT

Numa Snyder inspired generations as musician, teacher (Pocono Record)
Numa Snyder of Stroudsburg, a former Stroudsburg High School and East Stroudsburg University music teacher, died Sunday. He was 88.
Publ.Date : Tue, 23 Dec 2008 05:43:07 GMT

Cause and effects of coaching syndrome (Sydney Morning Herald)
THE Independent Commission Against Corruption has been conducting hearings into the case of a Chinese immigrant couple who allegedly offered a Sydney teacher $2500 in cash to help get their child into a selective high school.
Publ.Date : Fri, 19 Dec 2008 12:59:15 GMT

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While few can agree on a black-and-white definition for giftedness, one characteristic of the population that has some global acceptance is emotional sensitivity. It is a feature of personality that often plays havoc with the ability to live easily in the world.
from article : Emotional Sensitivity - by Vicky Moyle
- related page : intensity / sensitivity
- image from book: The Sensitive Self

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"Few realize that the real Pocahontas was only eleven years old. Hollywood turned the incident into a love story, but the real story is one of profound moral courage of a gifted child."

Linda Silverman, PhD, in Advanced Development Journal, 1995

“Historical accounts of Pocahontas's brief life, asserts Dr. Allen, typically depict her as a lovelorn and tragic character (she died in 1617 at the age of 20 or 21).

"Allen's Pocahontas is a real visionary, a prodigiously gifted young woman fervently devoted to the spiritual traditions of her people."

from Publishers Weekly review of book Pocahontas : Medicine Woman, Spy, Entrepreneur, Diplomat - by Paula Gunn Allen

photo: Q'Orianka Kilcher portrays Pocahontas in "The New World"

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Growing up in Brooklyn, I was routinely asked by teachers if someone had done my homework for me or if I had copied the poems I wrote from a book. As a poor, bright and ambitious girl in an underserved school, I constantly butted up against the boundaries of race and class.

Veronica Chambers [Parade, Sep 4 2005] -
author of novel Miss Black America

> related topics :..identity.... early life

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Carrie Fisher : "I think I'm very sane about how crazy I am."
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Many of our brightest, most creative, most independent thinking children and adults are being incorrectly diagnosed as having behavioral, emotional, or mental disorders.

They are then given medication and/or counseling to change their way of being so that they will be more acceptable within the school, the family, or the neighborhood, or so that they will be more content with themselves and their situation.

> excerpt from book Misdiagnosis And Dual Diagnoses of Gifted Children and Adults

> more on page :.
dysfunction / disorder

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When misdiagnosed gifted clients are prescribed medication to suppress the "symptoms of giftedness" there is the danger that the wonderful inner fury of the gifted process will be neutralized, thus minimalizing the potential for a life of accomplishment and fulfillment.

> from article Misdiagnosis of the Gifted

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"Many parents accept their child's giftedness and associated traits, but seem to be in 'denial' about their own giftedness, or at varying stages of dealing with it."

> from article : Fostering adult giftedness
by Sharon Lind

> more on : parenting

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