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Updated : Sat, 04 Jul 2009 05:56:12 GMT

Just out of this world (Christian Today)
In churches all across this nation there are gifted and talented singers waiting to be discovered
Publ.Date : Fri, 03 Jul 2009 10:52:37 GMT

Supporters Seek to Save Maryland Summer Centers Program for the Gifted (Washington Post)
The state's signature summer program for gifted and talented students has been cut from next year's budget, signaling what could be the end of a 42-year tradition that proponents say has changed the lives of many children.
Publ.Date : Thu, 02 Jul 2009 04:00:00 GMT

Student work on exhibit (MyCentralJersey.com)
Paintings, drawings and photographs created by Middlesex County Arts High and Arts Middle School students will be on display at the South River Public Library, 55 Appleby Ave., South River and Barnes and Noble, 869 Route One, North Brunswick, this mo...
Publ.Date : Sat, 04 Jul 2009 04:13:05 GMT

Hicksville, 11801 to Screen at LI International Film Festival (Hicksville Illustrated News)
In February 2008, Hicksville resident Jennifer A. Uihlein started work on a documentary to fulfill a master’s thesis requirement at Hunter College. She began researching, sourcing interview subjects and seeking supplemental media and music while at...
Publ.Date : Fri, 03 Jul 2009 05:17:19 GMT

Troy Grove gets Wild Bill bust (The Mendota Reporter)
Troy Grove now has its hometown hero cast in bronze.
Publ.Date : Fri, 03 Jul 2009 05:08:03 GMT

Saginaw school bucks enrollment decline and gets $8 million facelift (The Saginaw News)
The Saginaw Arts and Sciences Academy will have more space, more students and a new space, a gymnasium, in the coming school year. So much for Michigan's declining enrollment and lackluster school finances.
Publ.Date : Fri, 03 Jul 2009 02:49:24 GMT

Hamburg School Board Decides to Hire Construction Manager, Adopts Policies (Ashley County Ledger)
The regular meeting of the Hamburg School Board on Monday night, June 15, marked the last meeting for Marilyn Chambers to serve the district as the interim superintendent, a post she has been holding for the past eleven months.
Publ.Date : Thu, 02 Jul 2009 20:28:58 GMT

Camp Inventions gets local kids excited about science, math (Pioneer Press)
Armed with safety goggles, wire-cutters, screwdrivers and alcohol wipes, five girls crowded around a table at Thomas Lake Elementary School last week, digging deep into the inner workings of everyday appliances.
Publ.Date : Thu, 02 Jul 2009 05:05:56 GMT

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While few can agree on a black-and-white definition for giftedness, one characteristic of the population that has some global acceptance is emotional sensitivity. It is a feature of personality that often plays havoc with the ability to live easily in the world.
from article : Emotional Sensitivity - by Vicky Moyle
- related page : intensity / sensitivity
- image from book: The Sensitive Self

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"Few realize that the real Pocahontas was only eleven years old. Hollywood turned the incident into a love story, but the real story is one of profound moral courage of a gifted child."

Linda Silverman, PhD, in Advanced Development Journal, 1995

“Historical accounts of Pocahontas's brief life, asserts Dr. Allen, typically depict her as a lovelorn and tragic character (she died in 1617 at the age of 20 or 21).

"Allen's Pocahontas is a real visionary, a prodigiously gifted young woman fervently devoted to the spiritual traditions of her people."

from Publishers Weekly review of book Pocahontas : Medicine Woman, Spy, Entrepreneur, Diplomat - by Paula Gunn Allen

photo: Q'Orianka Kilcher portrays Pocahontas in "The New World"

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Growing up in Brooklyn, I was routinely asked by teachers if someone had done my homework for me or if I had copied the poems I wrote from a book. As a poor, bright and ambitious girl in an underserved school, I constantly butted up against the boundaries of race and class.

Veronica Chambers [Parade, Sep 4 2005] -
author of novel Miss Black America

> related topics :..identity.... early life

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Carrie Fisher : "I think I'm very sane about how crazy I am."
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Many of our brightest, most creative, most independent thinking children and adults are being incorrectly diagnosed as having behavioral, emotional, or mental disorders.

They are then given medication and/or counseling to change their way of being so that they will be more acceptable within the school, the family, or the neighborhood, or so that they will be more content with themselves and their situation.

> excerpt from book Misdiagnosis And Dual Diagnoses of Gifted Children and Adults

> more on page :.
dysfunction / disorder

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When misdiagnosed gifted clients are prescribed medication to suppress the "symptoms of giftedness" there is the danger that the wonderful inner fury of the gifted process will be neutralized, thus minimalizing the potential for a life of accomplishment and fulfillment.

> from article Misdiagnosis of the Gifted

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"Many parents accept their child's giftedness and associated traits, but seem to be in 'denial' about their own giftedness, or at varying stages of dealing with it."

> from article : Fostering adult giftedness
by Sharon Lind

> more on : parenting

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