The California Association for the Gifted

Gifted Dialogue [newsletter of CGEP] "The unique focus of this online publication is to connect many different constituencies who, in some way, serve gifted children and adolescents."

Davidson Institute for Talent Development
"To recognize, nurture and support profoundly gifted young people and to provide opportunities for them to develop their talents in positive ways to create value for themselves and others."

Educational Options -
site of Deborah L. Ruf, PhD - about "meeting the social, emotional, and academic needs of the intellectually gifted... people who do not fit the norms... families, children, adolescents, and adults.."

European Council for High Ability

FIRST   (For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology)
"program that brings together America's top engineers and thousands of high-school students."

Gifted and Creative Services Australia Pty Ltd [site of Lesley Sword]

Gifted Adult Forum - "set up in response to enquiries received daily through the Gifted & Creative Services Website from gifted adults living in countries all over the world. The common themes in these enquiries has been the search for information about giftedness in adults, support for the exploration of individual giftedness and a peer group of like-minded gifted people." - Facilitated by Lesley Sword, Director of Gifted & Creative Services Australia > subscription / member fee may be waived for those who would like to participate and can't afford it - mention you learned of the forum from this site : Talent Development Resources

Gifted Adults Information - multiple links to articles, sites etc

Gifted and Creative Thinking Index

Gifted & Talented Adults' Journal

Gifted and Talented Teens [suite101.com]

Gifted Conference Planners
"a non-profit corporation, is comprised of teachers, parents, and gifted adults who care deeply about the needs of the gifted. While we are running conferences on highly and profoundly gifted people at the moment, we also have explicit interests in supporting the Twice-Exceptional, Underachieving, Minority, and other underserved populations among the gifted."

Gifted Development Center  - Institute for the Study of Advanced Development

Gifted Exchange  "the blog about gifted children, schooling, parenting, education news and changing American education for the better."

Gifted Kids Speak
"The goal of this project is to gain insight and understanding from (mostly young) people about their thoughts about being gifted, the schools they attend and future plans. ... The work parallels a study done in the early 1980s, which asked very similar (and in many cases the same) questions to school-age children which led to publication of a book in 1984 called Gifted Children Speak Out (by Jim Delisle)."

The Gifted Resource Center of New England
".. serves the needs of gifted children, adolescents and their families. Clinical psychological and educational services are offered in assessment, psychotherapy, curriculum design, school consultation and teacher in-service. Also, articles, resource lists, and suggested readings are offered."

Gifted Unlimited - Kevin R. Johnson, M.A. - “developmental support for the gifted individual”

Great Potential Press

GT World  (gifted and talented children, plus some adult material)

> also see their GT-Adults Mailing List

Haven's Refuge The network site for Gifted teens

High Ability  - giftedness / adult development topics

High Cognitive Minds

Highly Sensitive

Highly Sensitive People

The Hoagies' Gifted Page  
resources and links for  Parents, for  Educators, Counselors, Administrators and other Professionals, and for  Kids & Teens.

The Hollingworth Center for Highly Gifted Children
"A National Volunteer Resource and Support Network for Highly Gifted Children, their Families, Schools and Communities."

The Hypatia Society  - "a group aiming to encourage multiple talents and geniuses within individuals..."

Institute for Educational Advancement
"provides direct student services, educational consulting services and develops eduactional products to promote intellectual and creative growth among high potential youth."

International Society for Gifted Adults and Advocates (ISGAA)
    

Introverts Self Discovery Program "We gathered input from introverts all over the world for eight years to design this special course... designed BY introverts FOR introverts. It is a distance learning and support tool for self discovery. ...  "The course is an in-depth meeting of the self which has transformed many an introvert into a person with confidence, self esteem and love of self." << Mention you found the course through Talent Development Resources  and receive a 10% discount. >>

Jack Kent Cooke Foundation - "to help young people of exceptional promise reach their full potential through education. We focus in particular on scholarships for outstanding individuals with financial need."

Laurel Springs School  - accredited K-12 independent study program.. distance-learning environment

The MacArthur Foundation
"a private, independent grantmaking institution dedicated to helping groups and individuals foster lasting improvement in the human condition. Through the support it provides, the Foundation fosters the development of knowledge, nurtures individual creativity, helps strengthen institutions, participates in the formation of effective policy, and provides information to the public..."

MyGiftedLife.org

National Association for Gifted Children 

The National Foundation for Gifted and Creative Children

The National Research Center on the Gifted and Talented (NRC/GT)

The Nobel Prize Internet Archive

Our Gifted Online Conferences
A place to join together to meet, share, learn, and discuss issues pertaining to giftedness and talent of all individuals regardless of race, age, gender, economic status, and/or twice/thrice exceptionalities.

Our Gifted Online Conferences / Gifted - OGTOC - "A place to join together to meet, share, learn, and discuss issues pertaining to giftedness and talent of all individuals regardless of race, age, gender, economic status, and/or twice/thrice exceptionalities.If your children did not come with instructions, then OGTOC will be a resource you will find very beneficial."

Overexcitable

Profoundly Gifted Institute
"..a non-profit organization established to support and build programs on college campuses for children who work multiple years above age-level. We are a multi-age, intellectual-peer learning-environment that meets individual educational-challenges while fulfilling the social and emotional needs of children performing 5 or more years above age-level."

Project Zero
"to understand and enhance learning, thinking, and creativity in the arts, as well as
humanistic and scientific disciplines, at the individual and institutional levels."

The Research on Giftedness and Talent (RGT) Special Interest Group of the American Education Research Association - "deals with research studies that focus on how giftedness and talent are developed and nurtured."

Rocamora School Inc [Los Angeles, CA]
"We are a non-profit organization that provides ongoing educational and transformational resources primarily for gifted and talented adults. All of the courses taught at the School are designed specifically to help students to be free of old patterns and live in a sustainable state of presence, creativity and spontaneity, with an open heart."

Roeper Consultation Service
"Our mission was based on the fact that growth and learning is driven by a child's inner agenda, a child's self,
not only their intellect. This is especially evident when we are trying to help the gifted child find his or her place
in this world."   Annemarie Roeper

The Ryman Program for Young Artists [Los Angeles, CA]
"dedicated to teaching classical drawing and painting skills to talented, motivated young people as a bridge to a lifetime that expresses and appreciates the arts."

SENG: Supporting Emotional Needs of the Gifted

Society for Research in Adult Development (SRAD)
The international membership.. includes people from all disciplines who are interested in positive adult development. Positive adult development refers to development starting in late adolescence and continuing through life. The focus is on expanded capabilities and changes that improve the quality of life.

The Summer Institute for the Gifted
"a unique and prestigious three-week residential or day, co-educational, summer program for academically talented students in grades one through eleven." [held in a number of different cities]

Supporting Emotional Needs of the Gifted

TAGFAM - talented and gifted individuals and their families

Talent is a force, not a tool
A "natural" in any job shows unlearned abilities: knacks, talents and aptitudes. Aptitudes are important behavioral vectors. They are key factors in long term career, work and job success, productivity, longevity...... and happiness. This isn't a bible and I'm not a guru. This interpretation of aptitudes is a work of judgment. My judgment. The material on this site is my hyper-condensed description of some invisible, intangible realities. It is partial information about what aptitudes are and do to people. This is an attempt to share knowledge and understanding rather than advocate rote application of this concept in your life or at your job.

The Theory of Positive Disintegration by Kazimierz Dabrowski.
A Polish psychiatrist and psychologist, Kazimierz Dabrowski developed the Theory of Positive Disintegration, a theory of personality development, over his lifetime of clinical and academic work. ... Since 1980, there has been a small but consistent demand for Dabrowski’s works. This demand has largely evolved in the United States where Michael Piechowski applied his vision of the theory to gifted education.

Twice Gifted
"The purpose of this site is to bring to light some of the unique and phenomenal talents of those who are nothing short of extraordinary and unfortunately, many times overlooked in regards to their talents. This site also provides information on mental and emotional issues unique to gifted individuals and provides an overview of gifted characteristics in general."

World Council for Gifted and Talented Children

The Yale Center for the Psychology of Abilities, Competencies, and Expertise / PACE Center
"..addressing issues such as: the nature and nurture of human abilities, competencies, and expertise, the interrelations of these three constructs, the measurement of these three constructs, the development and facilitation of these constructs in the young and old alike in various cultures around the world.

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“Proud Member - Intellectual Elites” from Betty Bowers -- "America's Best Christian"  bettybowers.com

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 ***self-tests******giftedness: characteristics *** personal qualities

***Dabrowski on advanced development***iintensity / sensitivity***perfectionism**

***questions and responses: career choices, emotional aspects of being gifted etc

******suggestions of gifted film/TV characters : videos  

nurturing talent : sites..........books : nurturing talent..........

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