GIFTEDNESS RESOURCES:

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• National Association for Gifted Children: NAGC is a great resource for parents of gifted children to find articles and resources about raising an intellectually gifted child.

• Supporting the Emotional Needs of the Gifted: SENG is an organization whose mission is to ensure that gifted children are understood, accepted, nurtured, and supported by their families, schools, and workplaces. Offers webinars.

• Northwest Gifted Child Association: NWGCA provides presentations, seminars, resources, and events to help families approach parenting challenges armed with information specific to the needs of gifted and talented children, enhance family relationships, and connect with other families who have gifted children.

• Hoagies’ Gifted Education Page: This is an "All Things Gifted" resource for parents, teachers, administrators, mental health professionals, and gifted kids and adults

• Center for Talented Youth: This Johns Hopkins University organization engages gifted kids and their families through programs, summer classes, and a bi-monthly magazine.

• Davidson Institute for Talent Development: The Davidson Institute's mission is to nurture and support profoundly intelligent (99.9th percentile) youth ages 5-18.

• Mensa for Kids: This website includes lesson plans, fun activities, and TED Talk links for kids, including offering monthly themes to get kids reading and learning at an advanced level.

• Institute for Research and Policy on Acceleration: Thinking of skipping a grade? Check out this website on the latest research being done into academic acceleration. For parents, educators, researchers, and policymakers.

• Gifted Child Today: This open-access journal is for parents and teachers featuring the latest information about talented and gifted children.

• Gifted Child Quarterly: Another open-access journal, this journal is more scholarly, publishing research done on giftedness and talent development.

• Exquisite Minds: With a focus on creativity, this website for parents and teachers of gifted children can find resources, online games, tips, tools, and more.

• Schools for the Gifted Child: Wondering where to send your gifted child to school? This page from Hoagie's lists schools in the US, Canada, Switzerland, Austria, and Holland.

• Gifted Children’s Bill of Rights: This resource from ASGC will help you learn how to stand up for your kids and make sure that his or her rights are being respected.

• VeryWell Family: Gifted Kids Learn how to identify gifted kids, help them with challenges, and more.

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TWICE EXCEPTIONALITY / LEARNING DIFFERENCES​ / MENTAL HEALTH RESOURCES

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• Characteristics of 2E Children: A helpful list by Dr. Melanie Hayes on the intellectual, physical, social, and emotional characteristics of 2E children. 

• Child Mind Institute: The Child Mind Institute is an independent, national nonprofit dedicated to transforming the lives of children and families struggling with mental health and learning challenges. Their website is a cornucopia of information.

• LD Online: LD OnLine is one of the leading websites on learning disabilities, learning disorders and differences. Parents and teachers of learning disabled children will find authoritative guidance on attention deficit disorder, ADD / ADHD, dyslexia, dysgraphia, dyscalculia, dysnomia, reading difficulties, speech and related disorders.

• Understood: This is a comprehensive resource for all types of learning and attention issues. They also have free webinars.

• Hey Sigmund: This helpful website is dedicated to understanding and helping children with anxiety. 

• Bright and Quirky Debbie Steinburg Kuntz has developed a supportive 2e membership program on Facebook called 'IdeaLab'  and offers a free online summit every year featuring the top professionals in 2E .  

• 2E (Twice Exceptional) Newsletter: Bi-monthly newsletter in electronic form for those who raise, educate, and counsel high-ability (gifted) children who also have learning challenges.

• Seth Perler: Executive function coach's website is chock full of tips for students and parents. Lots of helpful videos as well. Don't miss his Sunday Night Makeover (SNO)!

• Tilt Parenting: Debbie Reber is one of the best voices out there advocating for differently wired (neurodivergent) kids and the parenting that goes along with that. Don't miss her amazing weekly podcast. 

• Additude: Inside the ADHD Mind: From nutrition to medication (and everything in between), this is a helpful resource for parents of children with focus and attention challenges. They also have free webinars.

• CHADD - Living with ADHD: CHADD is a national nonprofit organization with local chapters that improves the lives of people affected by ADHD through education, advocacy, and support.

• Dyslexia Help - Apps for Dyslexia and other Learning Challenges: Here's an extensive list of apps that may be helpful to individuals with dyslexia, parents of dyslexics, or the professionals who work with dyslexics (teachers, tutors, reading specialists, etc.). 

• Dyslexic Advantage: This site is the home of the charitable organization 'The Dyslexic Advantage' founded in 2012 by Drs. Brock and Fernette Eide whose mission is to help dyslexics find their strengths.

• STAR Institute: STAR Institute is the premier treatment, research and education center for children and adults with Sensory Processing Disorder (SPD). This includes feeding disorders and other disorders with sensory issues such as autism and ADHD.

• The SCERTS® Model for autistic children is a research-based educational approach and multidisciplinary framework that directly addresses the core challenges faced by autistic children and their families, focusing on building competence in Social Communication, Emotional Regulation and Transactional Support 

• Autism Level UP! is resource that provides developmentally-appropriate, evidenced based educational recommendations and supports to empower autistic individuals to navigate their days.

• Profectum Parent Toolbox is a relationship-based model that supports parents to partner with their autistic child in the development of self-regulation, joint attention, communication and language, motor skills, cognition, ideation and execution, and social problem-solving.

• My child was just diagnosed with Dysgraphia. Now what?: If you recently learned your child has dysgraphia and aren't sure what to do next, this guide from Understood.org has a number of strategies, tools and therapies that can help your child.

• About Dyscalculia: This website brings a wealth of information about dyscalculia from the research community to parents, teachers, policy makers, and people affected by dyscalculia. 

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EDUCATION/HOMESCHOOLING​

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• Seattle Homeschoolers Resource Directory: This is a selective list of homeschooling groups, programs, resources and activities in the Greater Seattle metro area that are targeted toward homeschoolers/unschoolers, or occur during regular weekday school hours.

• Gifted Homeschoolers Forum: This is a fantastic site for parents of gifted homeschoolers with a robust community and lots of curricular ideas.

• Raising Lifelong Learners - Colleen Kessler's wonderful site for homeschooling gifted children

• Fireworks Press: This publisher's website has a variety of curricular options for homeschool parents or teachers.

• The Prufrock Blog: This site has news and views from Prufrock, one of the leading publishers of materials for gifted, advanced, and special needs students. You will find updates on their latest releases.

• Creating Curriculum for Gifted Children: This blog by New Zealander Mary St. George looks at ways to spark childrens' engagement in the learning process. She is a big fan of "passion projects" and how they can accomplish that.

• Davidson Academy Online School: For profoundly gifted students, this program is an accredited online option for middle and high school students offering a rigorous academic environment where students can learn and interact with same-age, intellectual peers.

• MIT Highlights for High School: This open courseware program features more than 2,600 video and audio clips, animations, lecture notes and assignments taken from actual MIT courses, and categorizes them to match the Advanced Placement physics, biology and calculus curricula. Demonstrations, simulations, animations and videos give educators engaging ways to present STEM concepts, while videos illustrate MIT's hands-on approach to the teaching of these subjects.

• Stanford Online High School: Offering courses for grades 7–12, Stanford Online High School is a highly selective independent school, where dedicated instructors help talented students worldwide pursue their passions in real-time, online seminars.

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ADVOCACY​

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• WrightsLaw: Wrightslaw is the leading website about special education law and advocacy with thousands of articles, cases, and free resources about special needs.

• TECA Twice Exceptional Children's Advocacy: Twice Exceptional Children’s Advocacy’s (TECA) mission is to help parents understand what twice exceptionality is and help them identify whether their child is 2E. Assists parents in finding and advocating for the education and resources their children require to thrive, even through college age and into the workplace.

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SUMMER CAMPS​

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• Summer Camps for Gifted Children: Looking for a great way to keep your child busy and learning over the summer? These summer camps across the US (including online programs) is a great place to start.

• Satori Summer Camp Located near Spokane, WA this week long residential summer camp during the last week in August has been the the highlight of my son's summer. It is truly a special place.

• Johns Hopkins Center for Talented Youth Summer Programs: CTY's gifted and talented summer programs offer bright students the opportunity to engage in challenging academic work in the company of peers who share their exceptional abilities and love of learning.

• Davidson THINK Summer Institute: THINK is a three-week-residential program for exceptionally gifted students, ages 13 to 16. Located on the University of Nevada, Reno, THINK offers students the opportunity to take two college courses taught by university faculty for college credit. 

• DigiPen ProjectFun Youth Programs: ProjectFUN administers intensive summer workshops for elementary, middle, and high school for students to learn about game development, engineering, and fine arts. It gives students practical experience designed to develop their critical thinking skills and inspire enthusiasm in the arts and sciences.

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