The best thing you can do for your child is read. You must become an expert yourself so that you don't have to rely on teachers and other professionals, who often know little or nothing about the gifted. Be your child's advocate!

BOOKS:
Highly recommended

RITALIN NATION: Rapid-Fire Culture and the Transformation of Human Consciousness.
by Richard DeGrandpre, W.W. Norton & Co., 2000

ADHD: The Great Misdiagnosis
by Julian Stuart Haber, MD, Taylor Pub., 2000

THE HYPERACTIVITY HOAX, by Sydney Walker III, MD - 1998

McGuinness, Diane: WHEN CHILDREN DON'T LEARN - 1985

TALKING BACK TO RITALIN, by Peter Breggin, MD - 1998

THE WAR AGAINST CHILDREN, by Peter Breggin, MD & Ginger Ross Breggin - 1994

Webb, Meckstroth & Tolan: GUIDING THE GIFTED CHILD Ohio Psychology Publishing Co., 1982

Miller, Alice: THE DRAMA OF THE GIFTED CHILD Basic Books, 1981

Gatto, John Taylor: THE EXHAUSTED SCHOOL Oxford Press, 1993

Schrag & Divoky: THE MYTH OF THE HYPERACTIVE CHILD Pantheon Books, 1975

Coles, Gerald: THE LEARNING MYSTIQUE Random House, NY, 1987

Torrance & Safter THE INCUBATION MODEL OF TEACHING Bearly Limited, 1990

Also very important

EDUCATION FOR THE GIFTED National Society for the Study of Education, U. of Chicago Press, 1958

Abraham, Willard: COMMON SENSE ABOUT GIFTED CHILDREN Harper, NY, 1958

Arieti, Silvano: CREATIVITY: THE MAGIC SYNTHESIS Basic Books, 1976

Blanshard, Paul: AMERICAN FREEDOM AND CATHOLIC POWER Beacon Press, 1958

Cutts & Moseley: TEACHING THE BRIGHT AND GIFTED Prentice Hall, NJ, 1957

French, Joseph L. (ed.): EDUCATING THE GIFTED: A BOOK OF READING~ Holt, Rinehart h.Winston, NY, 1959, rev.1964

Gallagher, James J.: TEACHING THE GIFTED CHILD Allyn & Bacon, 1964

Gardner, John W.: EXCELLENCE: CAN WE BE EQUAL AND EXCELLENT TOO? Harper & Row, 1962

Goodman, Paul: COMPULSORY: MISEDUCATION and THE COMMUNITY OF SCHOLARS Random House, 1962

Gross, Beatrice & Ronald: THE CHILDREN'S RIGHTS MOVEMENT Anchor Press, 1977

Holt, John: HOW CHILDREN FAIL and FREEDOM AND BEYOND Dell, 1964 and 1972

Huxley, Aldous : ISLAND Harper, NY, 1962

Illich, Ivan: DESCHOOLING SOCIETY Harper & Row, NY, 1971 Kozol, Johnathan DEATH AT AN EARLY AGE Houghton Mifflin, 1967

THE NIGHT IS DARK AND I AM FAR FROM HOME Touchstone/Simon & Schuster, NY, 1990

Krippner & Dillard: DREAMWORKING Bearly Limited, 1988

Leonard, George: EDUCATION AND ECSTASY Delcourt, NY, 1968

Lyon, Harold C., LEARNING TO FEEL--FEELING TO LEARN Charles E. Merrill Co., 1971

Miller, Alice: FOR YOUR OWN GOOD Farrar Straus Giroux, NY, 1983 " " THOU SHALT NOT BE AWARE Meridian, 1984

Redl, Fritz: WHEN WE DEAL WITH CHILDREN The Free Press, NY, 1966

Strang, Ruth: HELPING YOUR GIFTED CHILD E.P.Dutton, NY, 1960

Taylor & Getzels: PERSPECTIVES IN CREATIVITY Aldine Publishing Co., Chicago, 1975

Torrance, E. Paul: EDUCATION AND THE CREATIVE POTENTIAL U. of Minnesota Press, Minneapolis, 1963 " " GUIDING CREATIVE TALENT Prentice-Hall, 1962 " " THE SEARCH FOR SATORI AND CREATIVITY pub. by The Creative Foundation, Inc. in association with Creative Synergetic Associates, Ltd., 1979

Torrance & Gowan (ed's.): EDUCATING THE ABLEST F.E. Peacock, Itasca, IL, 1971

Torrance, E. Paul: ENCOURAGING CREATIVITY IN THE CLASSROOM W.C. Brown Co., Dubuque, Iowa, 1970

For further reading

THE EDUCATION OF GIFTED CHILDREN 23rd Yearbook of the National Society of Education, Part 1 U. of Chicago Press, 1924

SPECIAL EDUCATION FOR THE GIFTED 49th Yearbook, Part 2, 1950

Friedenberg, Edgar Z.: COMING OF AGE IN AMERICA RandomHouse, 1965

Moustakis, Clark: CREATIVITY AND CONFORMITY D. Van Nostrand Co., 1967

Postman & Weingartner: TEACHING AS A SUBVERSIVE ACTIVITY Dell

Rickover, Adm. H.G.: AMERICAN EDUCATION--A NATIONAL FAILURE Dutton S Co., 1963

*Some of the above books may be out of print, but may be available from your public library.

PAMPHLETS

YOUR GIFTED CHILD Children's Bureau Publication No. 371-1958. reprinted 1964, U.S. Government Printing Office

CURRICULUM ADJUSTMENTS FOR GIFTED CHILDREN U.S. Office of Education , 1946, No.l

EDUCATION OF THE GIFTED Educational Policies Commission, 1950

ACCENT ON TALENT Volumes 1 & 2 Charles E. Bish, ed. The Committee for the Study of Intellectual Talent, District No.7 Schools, Edwardsville, IL 62025

EDUCATION OF THE GIFTED & TALENTED, Vols 1 & 2, Report to Congress by the U.S. Commissioner of Education, August, 1971. Available from your Congressman.

PERIODICALS

I have been receiving a number of Journals on the gifted and creative, and have decided that the one most helpful for parents and professionals is the ROEPER REVIEW, published by Roeper City and Country School, P.O. Box 329, Bloomfield Hills, MI, 48013. I have always found the writings by Annemarie Roeper very perceptive and I would guess she has worked with many of these youngsters!

Also very good for those interested in home schooling is to contact John Holt Associates, 269 Massachusetts Ave, Cam- bridge, MA, 02140. Through our own research we have found that most of the families who are attempting to find alternatives to the schools are parents of gifted and creative children.

Other material is available from:
Dr. E. Paul Torrance
Georgia Studies of Creative Behavior
183 Cherokee Ave
Athens, GA, 30606.

--Marie Friedel, 1991

PS: Two more "further reading" books:

Silbermann, Charles E.: CRISIS IN THE CLASSROOM Random House. 1970

Witty, Paul: THE GIFTED CHILD D.C. Heath & Co., Boston, 1951