This showed up in my Google Reader alerts,
In her many years in education, Carol Strip Whitney has heard many stereotypes about gifted children.
Many people expect children who have been identified as gifted to be organized, well-adjusted and able to teach themselves, Whitney said.
But many children don’t fit into this ideal, she said.
“Just because (students) are gifted, they are in no way the same,” she said.
Whitney is an enrichment consultant and teacher at the Oxford Enrichment Center and a gifted student consultant at Midwest Educational Therapists and Associates in Columbus. She joined forces with her husband, Dr. Richard Whitney, medical director of Shepherd Hill in Newark, on Saturday to give local teachers and parents realistic view of gifted children.
The couple hosted “Speaking about Gifted children,” a free discussion at the J. Gilbert Reese Center.
Carol Whitney’s bio at Great Potential Press can be found here. But her book A Love for Learning: Motivation and the Gifted Child seems to be unavailable on Amazon, but you can read a (long) preview of it on Google Books.
Richard Whitney began Saturday’s talk by explaining the parts of the brain and the ways the gifted brain is different.
I’ve tried looking up some of this information myself, but apparently I suck with Google Scholar.
You can read the whole article here.