PART I: PERSPECTIVES

PART II: IDENTIFICATION: CREATIVE STRATEGIES AND TECHNIQUES

The Beginnings of Giftedness: Optimizing Early Learning

Barbara Clark

Identifying the Gifted Infant

Judith A. Gelbrich

Seeking Advanced Potentials: Developmentally Appropriate Procedures for Identification

Bertie Kingore

A Sensibility Approach to Identifying and Assessing Young Gifted Children

Maurice D. Fisher

Identification and Nurturing of Precocious Children in Early Childhood

John F. Feldhusen

Hazel J. Feldhusen

The Importance of Early Identification of Gifted Children and Appropriate Educational Intervention

Dorothy A. Sisk

PART III: SPECIAL POPULATIONS: CHALLENGES AND OPPORTUNITIES

Talent Among Children Who are Economically Disadvantaged or Culturally Different

E. Paul Torrance

Developing the Potential of Young Gifted Children from Low-income and Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Backgrounds

Margie K. Kitano

Rosa Isela Perez

Targeting Potentially Talented and Gifted Minority Students for Academic Achievement

Patricia Reid Brooks

Early Childhood Giftedness Among the Rural Poor

Howard H. Spicker

W. Thomas Southern

Beginning Brilliance

Stephanie S. Tolan

Creativity and Underachievement

Sylvia B. Rimm

The Gifted-Learning-Disabled Child: In Need of an Integrative Education

Nancy Wingenbach

Gifted Special Populations: Overcoming Hindrances Developing Gifts

Jessie Hugh Butler Sanders

Gifted Girls

Stephen Veenker

Kathleen Veenker

PART IV: PARENTING THE GIFTED CHILD: ENABLING AND ENCOURAGING PARENTS

Enjoying and Encouraging the Young Gifted Child

Phyllis J. Perry

Successful Parenting

Sally Walker

Tips for Parents of Infants and Toddlers

Tom Potter

Keeping Curiosity Alive

Judith Wynn Halsted

From the Beginning: Parents as Teachers and Home as a Reading Resource

Pamela M. Hildebrand

Parents of Gifted Children: Sheep in Wolves' Clothing?

Gina Ginsberg Riggs

PART V: MEETING SOCIAL AND EMOTIONAL NEEDS TO EFFECT GROWTH

Helping Young Gifted Children Reclaim Their Strengths

Elaine S. LeVine

Margie K. Kitano

Complexities of Giftedness: Dabrowski's Theory

Elizabeth A. Meckstroth

Psychosocial Development of Gifted Children

Philip A. Perrone

Facilitating the Interest Themes of Young Bright Children

LeoNora M. Cohen

Social/Emotional Considerations in Young Gifted Children

Dorothy Knopper

The Role of the Pediatrician

Patricia Duggins Hoelscher

PART VI: CREATING EFFECTIVE EDUCATIONAL EXPERIENCES FOR GIFTED YOUNG CHILDREN

Educationally Dynamic Environments for Young Gifted Children

Beverly D. Shaklee

Creating the Most Enabling Environment for Young Gifted Children

Susan F. Belgrad

The Education of Talented Young Children in the Context of School Reform

Carolyn Cummings

Jane Piirto

Conceptual Models: Their Role in Early Education for the Gifted and Talented child

LeoNora M. Cohen

Janice A. Jipson

The Cline Cube: Integrating Models of Gifted Education

Starr Cline

The World of the Young Gifted Child Viewed through Open Systems Concepts

Patricia L. Hollingsworth

Designing a Preschool Program for the Gifted and Talented

Gail E. Hanninen

Planning Curriculum for Young Gifted Children

Joan Vydra

Judy Leimbach

Cultivating Creative Thinking Abilities in Young Children

Bob Stanish

Curriculum for the Young Gifted Child

Linda Meininger

From Theory to Practice: A Project for Young Creatively Gifted Children from Economically Disadvantaged Backgrounds

Corliss J. McCallister

William R. Nash

Developing Talent in Young Learners with Picture Books

Susan Baum

Appropriate Educational Programs for the Young Gifted Child: Curricular Concerns

Janice A. Jipson

Technology-Based Instruction for Young Gifted Children

Sandra L. Berger

Jay Mclntire

Biographical Information

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