A) Characteristics of Gifted Children
B) Problems in school
C) How the NFGCC began
D) What you can do
E) Why there is a need for the NFGCC
1) Introduction
2) Letter from Moses Brown School "cannot provide the proper situation for Lance"
3) Letter to Commisioner Howe in Washington, D.C.
4) Letter from J. Ned Bryan, Educational Specialist
5) Recommended Reading list
6) Quotes
7) 9/26/68 Letter to the Editor- Some thoughts on the emotionally disturbed
8)10/11/69 Letter to the Editor- "Parochial" elementary policies are discussed
9) Case Study of a child
10) Case Study of another child
11 Letter to Judge William Goldberg
12) Mrs. Selwyn's letter in Providence Journal Bulletin 4/9/70
13) Marie's Response to Mrs. Selwyn's letter - 4/13/70
14) Actual Article in P.J.B. "What are we doing with our brightest children?"
And a statement by Marie Friedel on "drugging".
15) The Ten Commandments that block Creativity - by Stanley Krippner
16) The Neglect of Gifted and Creative Children
And a News Article- Children's Rights is Conference Topic
17) Statement of M.F. to the Special Populations Sub-comittee
18) Creative Growth Center Philosophy
19) "Focus on Youth" by Bert Wade- P.J.B.
20) The Problems of the Creative
21) Proposal for Gifted Children
22) Letter to M.F. from Dept. of Health, Ed., and Welfare
23) Identification & Evaluation Procedures for Gifted and Talented programs
24) Case Studies of more children
Open Hearing on Discrimination Against Children
25) Hyperactive Children Falsely accused
26) News Article on 4 and a half year old Joyce Palumbo
27) Family Sanctioned to Run Classes From Home
28) Letter to Governor Garrahy
29) Educating a Gifted Child (Rhode Island Review)
30) The Gifted Child by Kimberly Schwab
31) Family Battles to Educate Child at Home
32) Testimony- National Commision on Excellence in Education
33) A Fable?
34)
Poem published in weekly bulletin of The Edgewood Congretional
Church
35) "On The Role Of Creativity in History"
"Is America Neglecting Her Creative Talents?"
Arnold Toynbee
35B) "On The Role Of Creativity in History"
Cont.
Arnold Toynbee
36) "Grade Them "A" For Creativity" by Georgie Anne Geyer
37) "Suggestions For Parents of Able Children" John C. Gowan
38) "Make School Fit The Child" Joanne Koch
39) Dyssynchrony: "The Times are Out of Joint."
40) "You mean a rabbit can be taught to fly?" by Leo Buscaglia, Ph.D.
41) Questions concerning reading
42) "Schooling Counter to Talent Development" Gifted Children Newsletter
43) "Accent on Talent" NEA Service to the schools of the nation-Vol. 2 No. 5 3/68
44) "Kari's Handicap-The Impediment of Creativity" Robert E. Samples
45) "For Many, Being Gifted Brings Lifelong Struggle" E. Paul Torrance
46) Gifted Children Susceptible to Cults" Gifted Children Newsleter
47) "Wonder and Ethics in Therapy" Rollo May, Ph.D.
48) Letter to Charles Town Montessori School from Parents
49) Tragic Report of cruelty to gifted
50) Kevin's Case History
51) Gifted Children Monthly - "The Homeschooling of Andrew Wyeth"
52) "Identifying and Teaching The Gifted, American Education's Stepchildren" Fisher,Ph.D. & Fisher, Ed.D
53) Educating the gifted: Prudence Island Couple tries to beat the system" McVicar
54) vita, Marie Friedel
55) vita, cont. M.F.
56) "People" Article in P.J.B.
57) Certificates and Awards of Marie Friedel
58) Gifted not served by schools, federal study finds
59) Letters of appreciation from thankful parents to Marie Friedel
60) Article: "Shortage of Ritalin Leaves Parents Scrambling"
61) "Reflections" by Anne Marie Roeper, Ed.D
62) "Those engaged in medical research on violence should....." M.F.
63) E. Paul Torrance - "The Creativity Man" - Millar (book cover)
E. Paul Torrance signs his book to Marie Friedel.
64) Ritalin Use is a Bar to Military Service
65) Parents to Protest Treatment of Gifted and Creative Children
66) WARNING TO PARENTS
67) Feed a Fever!
68) Pope Was "Pesty" Schoolboy
69) "Your Gifted Child" Part 1
70) "Your Gifted Child" Part 2
71) Albert Einstein
72) Letter from Commissioner Burke To Marie Friedel
73) Marie Friedel's Response to Commissioner Burke
74) Marie Friedel's Response to Brian Donohue