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Assorted Useful Advice for Gifted Children’s Parents - Essay translated from Hebrew to help gifted children’s parents face the challenges of having a gifted child.
Do We Know if Gifted Children are Being Served Appropriately? - This full text article by James Delisle discusses parental advocacy in the school. It suggests questions a parent can ask a principal, teacher and the student in order to see if needs are being met.
Education and the Gifted Child - What to do if you suspect your child is gifted... how to challenge gifted children educationally but still let them be children.
Gifted Child - A center for the evaluation of gifted children.
Gifted Children Australia - Provides support, news, resources and information for parents and families of Gifted Children.
GT World - On-line support community for gifted and talented individuals and those who support and nurture them.
GT World Mailing Lists for Parents - A place for families dealing with the complexities of raising intellectually gifted and talented children.
Helping Your Highly Gifted Child - Ways parents and administrators can help the high ability children.
Hollingworth Center for Highly Gifted Children - Provides information, support and regional networking for parents of highly gifted children.
The Lifeline to the Net's Gifted Resources Index - Diane's gifted resources page.
The National Foundation for Gifted and Creative Children - The main goal of The Foundation is to get much needed information to the parents of gifted children.
Parents - More ideas for parents of gifted children
Visual and Spatial Skills - Ways to enrich visual and spatial skills
You Know You're The Parent of a Gifted Child When... - Classic hints.


Parenting Tips on Educational Advocacy - Article by the Davidson Institute for Talent Development offers parents tried-and-true strategies they can use to optimize their chances of changing the attitudes of teachers and administrators and find a solution that will optimize their child's education. (2004)
Tips for Parents: Preparing Schools for Your Child - Article by Karen Rogers recommends strategies for parents to use when advocating for their children in school. It identifies three steps in the advocacy process. (2003)
Preparing For and Holding an Effective School Meeting - A guide for parents who are meeting with the school to advocate for an appropriate educational program for their child. It covers preparing the meeting, the meeting itself, and the follow-up after the meeting. (1999)
The Tea and Terrorist Society: Parent Advocacy at the District Level - Monique Lloyd explains "Many parents feel powerless when dealing with their public schools; this is especially true of parents with highly gifted children. I reached my end-point the day I realized I had a file drawer full of records of meetings, phone calls, and letters with school officials going back six years. (1999)
How to Make Parent-Teacher Conferences Worthwhile and Productive - An excerpt from the December 1996 Issue of Parenting for High Potential. (1996)
Supporting Gifted Education Through Advocacy - Offers a "How-To" process in obtaining gifted education in your school. Included are sections on Understanding the Process and Avoiding the Pitfalls (with pitfalls explained in great detail), Channeling Your Energies in the Right Direction through Systematic Advocacy, and Establishing and Maintaining a Parent Advocacy Group. (1990)