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The document provides tips for parents on how to support their gifted child's development and promote their giftedness. It recommends avoiding discouraging a child's imagination, questions, or unusual interests. It also suggests not overscheduling activities and allowing free time for exploration. Additionally, the document encourages fostering friendships and hobbies for gifted children. Finally, it stresses the importance of still treating gifted children as children.

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The document provides tips for parents on how to support their gifted child's development and promote their giftedness. It recommends avoiding discouraging a child's imagination, questions, or unusual interests. It also suggests not overscheduling activities and allowing free time for exploration. Additionally, the document encourages fostering friendships and hobbies for gifted children. Finally, it stresses the importance of still treating gifted children as children.

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Gifted

Advocacy Newsletter

How Can I Support and Promote My Childs Giftedness?


Avoid discouraging unusual questions or attitudes. Parents should avoid direct,
indirect or unspoken attitudes that fantasy, originality, unusual questions, imaginary
playmates, or out-of-the-ordinary mental processes are bad, or different. Gifted
childrens imaginations shouldnt be discouraged.
Dont over-schedule your childs life. Many parents feel that all of the childs spare
time must be filled up with extra lessons of all kinds. Allow your child to become
bored and let them find a way to use time unscheduled by adults.
Encourage friendships and discover hobbies.
Treat them as children. They are still children.

Organizations You Can Join


SENG (Supporting Emotional
Needs of the Gifted)
A national organization
formed in 1981 to bring
attention to the unique
emotional needs of gifted
children.

November 2015
Terms to Know:
FERPA
Family Education Rights and Privacy
Act. Federal law that says, among
other things, that parents are entitled
to copies of children's educational
testing results, including IQ test
results.

Subject Acceleration
Student takes individual subject
instruction at a higher grade level,
either with the higher grade class, or
by independent study or distance
education.

Magnet School
Public school program drawing from a
wider geographical area, often
organized around a particular
teaching philosophy or subject area.
Some communities offer gifted
magnet schools.

Enrichment
Students study additional material at
the grade level they have already
mastered.

Grade Acceleration
Also called Grade skipping. Student
takes entire grade level with older
students, and continues educational
progress with that class. This is a
commonly used educational strategy
for exceptionally and profoundly
gifted students.

How to be an Effective Advocate at School


www.sengifted.org
FLAG (Florida Association for
the Gifted)
FLAG was founded to support
educationally appropriate
programs for gifted students
in the state of Florida

There are many things that you can do to be an effective child for your child at
school. Here are some suggestions from a seminar by Ann Lupkowski-Shoplik,
Ph.D. of the Davidson Institute for Talent Development.
Determine what your childs needs are at one point youll be asked what you
want for your child. Be prepared.
Decide what is reasonable to ask your school to do - Reasonable
accommodations for gifted students include: differentiation in the regular
classroom, placing them in a separate class for high-ability students,
participating in pullout programs, and moving up a grade for one or more
subjects.
Keep interactions with school personnel positive!

www.flagifted.org

Join a parent group, or start one - The National Association for Gifted Children
(www.nagc.org) is a national organization for parents and teachers of gifted
students. Their website offers many suggestions for advocacy.

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