Special Needs

• "Normal" Is a Setting on a Clothes Dryer
  Definitions, essay, and book review describing what 'normal' is.
  

• Existential Depression in Gifted Individuals
  What is it? Why does it disproportionately affect our gifted youth?
  

• Gifted Women: What happened to all the gifted girls?
  In our culture it can be difficult to be a woman with intellectual gifts. Some gifted women disappear into the woodwork.
  

• Joy and Loss: The Emotional Lives of Gifted Children
  Gifted children have unique emotional needs. In addition to their skills and success, they are typically more lonely, more perfectionistic, and in more pain.
  

• Nurturing Giftedness In Young Children
  ERIC Digest #E487 discusses gifted children entering kindergarten and describes how to choose a school.
  

• Screening for Special Diagnoses.
  ED389965, ERIC Digest, gives problems and solutions for school screening.
  

• Uniquely Gifted
  Online resources for helping gifted/special needs children. Includes links for specific special needs, online support groups, special education law and advocacy, plus book recommendations.