High IQ Kids: Collected Insights, Information, and Personal Stories from the Experts edited by Kiesa Kay, Deborah Robson, and Judy Fort Brenneman

About the Book
High IQ Kids is essential reading for any adult who wants to know more about highly intelligent kids and how to help them succeed.

Profoundly gifted kids often get the least help in school. It's assumed they're smart enough to succeed on their own, plus teachers (and parents) often feel out of their depth with these unique kids. A blend of personal stories and practical strategies, scholarly articles and entertaining essays from a community of voices-parents, educators, authors, researchers, and other experts-this book addresses the joys and challenges of raising and teaching, living with and understanding exceptionally gifted kids of all ages. Recommended for any adult who wants to know more (and may be desperate to know more) about high-IQ kids and how to support them, advocate for them, and meet their social, emotional, and learning needs.

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About the Editors
Kiesa Kay edited the anthology Uniquely Gifted and served as the program coordinator of Universal High School, a public school program for highly capable autonomous learners. Deborah Robson is a writer, editor, visual and textile artist, and book designer, as well as the owner of Nomad Press, a small publishing company. Judy Fort Brenneman is an award-winning writer, editor, and speaker who has developed and presented workshops on writing and creativity. All three editors have successfully raised high-IQ kids. High IQ Kids is the product of their collective hope to give parents, educators, and counselors the information they themselves needed while raising extraordinarily gifted children.

Table of Contents

Part 1: What's in a Number?

1. "Defining the Few: What Educators and Parents Need to Know About Exceptionally and Profoundly Gifted Children," by Annette Revel Sheely and Linda Kreger Silverman
2. "Normal Kids Don't Quack," by Cathy Marciniak
3. "Young Gifted Children as Natural Philosophers," by Deirdre V. Lovecky
4. "Calculus, Pooh, and Tigger Too," by Courtney James
5. "Intellectual Assessment of Exceptionally and Profoundly Gifted Children," by John D. Wasserman
6. "Recommendations for Identifying and Serving Black Youth in Gifted Programs," by Tarek C. Grantham and Linda A. Long
7. "Twice Exceptionality: Life in the Asynchronous Lane," by Lee Singer
8. "An Anomaly: Parenting a Twice-Exceptional Girl," by Kiesa Kay

Part 2: Take a Number

9. "'So You're the Teacher of a Profoundly Gifted Child' (And Then There was Bill)," by Laura Freese
10. "What Makes the Highly Gifted Child Qualitatively Different? Implications for Schooling," by Karen B. Rogers
11. "Too Smart for School? A Lesson About Teaching and Learning," by Marilyn Walker
12. "Becoming an Educational Advocate: Dolphin's Story," by Carolyn Kottmeyer
13. "The Underachievement of Gifted Students: Multiple Frustrations and Few Solutions," by Sally M. Reis
14. "Surviving in Spite of it All," by Shaun Hately
15. "Curriculum Issues for the Profoundly Gifted," by Joyce VanTassel-Baska
16. "Of Importance, Meaning, and Success: Applications for Highly and Profoundly Gifted Students," by Christine S. Neville
17. "Homeschooling with Profoundly Gifted Children," by Kathryn Finn
18. "Unfettered Innovation: The Promise of Charter Schools," by Amanda P. Avallone
19. "An Early Entrance Program: A Well-Rounded College Experience for Young Students," by Trindel Maine and Richard S. Maddox
20. "A Longitudinal Study of Radical Acceleration with Exceptionally and Profoundly Gifted Children," by Miraca U.M. Gross

Part 3: More Than a Number

21. "Red Zone," by Deborah Robson
22. "The Problem of Pain," by Stephanie S. Tolan
23. "When the Pop Bottle Overflows," by Judy Fort Brenneman
24. "Giftedness is Heart and Soul," by Annemarie Roeper
25. "A Mixed Blessing," by Ilona von Karolyi-Ross
26. "Out of the Ordinary," by Elizabeth Lovance
27. "Birds and Bees: Sex and the High IQ Adolescent," by Annette Revel Sheely
28. "Abnormally Brilliant, Brilliantly Normal," by Elizabeth Meckstroth
29. "Rainbow Spirits," by Annamarie Summers

Appendix: Resources and More Information

30. "Strength in Numbers: An Introduction to the Resources," by Judy Fort Brenneman