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This list is by no means exhaustive.  If you know of any other resources you'd like listed, please let me know!

Gifted Research Centers:
 
Center For Talent Development at Northwestern
 
Gifted Education Resource Institute at Purdue
 
Neag Center for Gifted Education and Talent Development
 
Center for Gifted Education at William and Mary
 
Belin Blank Center for Gifted Education and Talent Development
 
Johns Hopkins Center for Talented Youth
 
Duke University Talent Identification Program
 
Print Resources (Books):
 
Giftedness:
 
Growing Up Gifted by Barbara Clark. Prentice Hall, Inc.

Excellence in Educating Gifted and Talented Learners by Joyce VanTassel-Baska. Love Publishing Company

Planning Effective Curriculum for Gifted Learners by Joyce VanTassel Baska. Love Publishing Company

Teaching gifted kids in the regular classroom by Susan Winebrenner. Free Spirit Publishing.

The survival guide for parents of gifted kids: How to understand, live with and stick up for your gifted child by S.Y Walker. Free Spirit Publishing.

Learning Disabled/Gifted:

To Be Gifted and Learning Disabled by Susan Baum, Steve V. Owen & John Dixon. Creative Learning Press, Inc.

Crossover Children: A sourcebook for helping children who are gifted and learning disabled. Council for Exceptional Children

Savants:

Extraordinary People: Understanding Savant Syndrome by Darold A. Treffert. Harper & Row.

Musical Savants: Exceptional Skills in the Mentally Retarded by Leon Miller. Lawrence Erlbaum Publishers

Physically Disabled/Gifted:

Intellectual Giftedness in Disabled Persons by Joanne Rand & C. June Maker. Aspen Systems Corp.

The Many Faces of Giftedness by Alexinia Young Baldwin and Wilma Vialle. International Thompson Publishing, Inc.

Gifted Children, Myths and Realities by Ellen Winner. Basic Books

Kiss of God by Marshall Stewart Ball. Health Communications, Inc.

Print Resources (Periodicals):

Learning Disabled/Gifted:

Baum, Susan, (Winter 1988). An Enrichment Program for Gifted Learning Disabled Students. Gifted ChildQuarterly, 226-230

Baum, Susan, Steve V. Owen & John Dixon (1991). To Be Gifted and Learning Disabled. Mansfield Center: Creative Learning Press, Inc.

Brody, Linda E. & Carol J. Mills (May/June 1997). Gifted Children with Learning Disabilities: A Review of the Issues. Journal of Learning Disabilities, 282-286

Crawford, Shawn & Fern Snart (June, 1994). Process-Based Remediation of Decoding in Gifted LD Students: Three Case Studies. Roeper Review, 247-252.

Thraikill, Colleen (May/June 1998). Patrick's Story: A Gifted Learning Disabled Child. Gifted Child Quarterly, 24-25, 45.

Wright, M. Joy (Mar/Apr 1997). Gifted and learning disabled. Learning, 49,51.

Savants:

Donnelly, Julie A. & Reuben Altman (June, 1994). The Autistic Savant: Recognizing and Serving the Gifted Student with Autism. Roeper Review, 252-255.

Winner, Ellen (1998). Uncommon Talents: Gifted Children, Prodigies and Savants. Scientific American Presents.32-37.

Asperger's Syndrome:
 
Cash, Abbey B., (September, 1999). A Profile of Gifted Individuals with Autism: The Twice-Exceptional Learner. Roeper Review, 22, (1), 22-27.

Mayberry, Gregory D., (December, 2000). Michael—The story of an autistic photographer. PSA Journal, 66, (12), 30-33.

Moore, David, Paul McGrath and John Thorpe, (August, 2000). Computer-aided learning for people with autism—a framework for research and development. Innovations in Education and Training International, 37, (3), 218-227.

Neihart, Maureen, (Fall, 2000). Gifted Children With Asperger’s Syndrome. Gifted Child Quarterly, 44, (4), 222-230.

Osborne, Lawrence, (June 18, 2000). The little professor syndrome. New York Times Magazine. New York.

Pianoforte, Kerry, (July, 2000). The artist as a young man. The Exceptional Parent, 30, (7), 70-71.

Safran, Stephen P., (Winter, 2000). Asperger Syndrome: The emerging challenge to special education. Exceptional Children, 67, (2), 151-160.

Physically Disabled/Gifted:

Anonymous (March, 1999). Dallas boy born without hands excels as gifted artist. Jet, 38-40.

Willard-Holt, Colleen (Fall, 1998). Academic and personality characteristics of gifted students with cerebral palsy: a multiple case study. Exceptional Children, 37-50.

Depression:

Gust-Brey, Karyn and Tracy Cross, (September 1999).  An Examination of the Literature Base on the Suicidal Behaviors of Gifted Students.  Roeper Review, 22, (1), 28-35.

Harkavy J. and G. Asnis, (1985).  New England Journal of Medicine, 313, 1290-1291.

News Briefs (May/June 1999).  Symptoms of Depression.  Gifted Child Today, 22 (3), 7.

Ramirez, Monica (May/June 1999).  The Perfect Trap.  Psychology Today, 32 (3) 30-34.

Seigle, Del and Patricia A. Schuler (September 2000).  Perfectionism Differences in Gifted Middle School Students.  Roeper Review, 23 (1), 39-45.

Silverman, Linda (1999).  Perfectionism.  Gifted Education International, 13 (3), 216-225.

Tucker, Brooke and Norma Lu Hafenstein (1997).  Psychological Intensities in Young Gifted Children.  Gifted Child Quarterly, 41 (3), 66-75.

 
 
Contests for Gifted Kids:
 
American Mathematics Competition
 
Davidson Institute (A GREAT resource!)
 
Let's Get Real!
 
Amazing Kids Contests
 
Scholastic Art and Writing Awards
 
Programs for Gifted Kids:
 
Rather than create a whole new list, I'm referring you here to the Hoagie's Gifted page.  They have an extensive list of resources.
 
 
Movie Recommendations:
 
The Mighty (I highly recommend this one!)       
Children of a Lesser God
October Sky (this one too!)
Amadaus
Rain Man
The Miracle Worker
Mercury Rising
Patch Adams
Searching for Bobby Fischer
Good Will Hunting
Shine
Little Man Tate
Dead Poet's Society
Immortal Beloved
My Left Foot
A Beautiful Mind
 
 
 

Comments/suggestions for additional resources are most welcome!

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