This page contains Australian links,
(some of which are also useful internationally),
International links, and links specific to highly gifted children.
In
Australia the State Gifted & Talented
Children's Associations are an invaluable resource for all teachers and parents
of gifted children:
The following contact information was correct to my knowledge in February 2002.
Queensland
Queensland Association for Gifted &
Talented Children Inc.
282 Stafford Rd,
STAFFORD, QLD 4053
Phone: (07) 3352 4288 Fax: (07) 3352 4388
Email: office@qagtc.org.au
Website: http://www.qagtc.org.au/
Editor Email: president@qagtc.org.au
New South Wales
NSW Association for Gifted & Talented Children Inc.
P.O. Box 1086,
STRATHFIELD N.S.W. 2135
Website: http://www.nswagtc.org.au
A.C.T.
ACT Support Group for G & T Children
PO Box 242
HAWKER ACT 2614
Dr Jenny Bell Phone (from NSW website)
Email: jenbell@goldweb.com.au
Victoria
Victorian Association for Gifted & Talented Children
PO Box 814,
MULGRAVE VIC 3170
Tasmania
Gifted and Talented Children State Organisation
Box 1942
Hobart 7000
http://www.neat.tas.edu.au/tasgifted/
South Australia
GTCSA Inc.,
PO Box 303 Mitcham Shopping Centre,
TORRENS PARK S.A. 5062
Parent Vice-President: Ann Matison, (08)8373 4968
Northern Territory
NTAEGT
Po Box 258
PARAP NT 0820
Website: http://www.ntu.edu.au/local/ntaegt/index.htm
Western Australia
The Gifted and Talented Children's Association of WA:
Website: http://gatcawa.bizland.com
Kriss Muskett, GATCA Secretary, Email: muskett@indigo.net.au
Other Useful Australian Links and Contacts:
The Australian Mensa Website:
http://www.au.mensa.org/children
GERRIC: The site for the University of New South Wales "Gifted
Education Research, Resource & Information Centre" (Gerric
offers a range of programs & services across Australia):
http://www.arts.unsw.edu.au/gerric/
TalentEd: The site for the excellent Australia-wide journal based at
the University of New England (information, contacts, competitions
etc):
http://www.scs.une.edu.au/TalentEd/
The Northern Territory Association for the Education of Gifted &
Talented Children site:
http://www.ntu.edu.au/local/ntaegt/index.htm
The Queensland Association for Gifted & Talented Children site
(excellent information and counselling services):
http://www.qagtc.org.au/
Rodin Educational Consultancy (A Queensland educational consultancy
specialising in gifted children):
http://www.rodin.gil.com.au
The Austega Gifted Resource Centre
http://www.austega.com/gifted/
Links of both Australian
and International Interest:
Visual Difficulties affecting children's
reading and school performance:
Two Australian sites with information about
subtle visual difficulties which can affect children's reading and writing
abilities, resulting in incorrect diagnoses of dyslexia, dysgraphia, ADHD,
laziness, behavioural problems, etc. These problems can often be a cause
of gifted children's learning difficulties or underachievement. (See
my page "Gifted Learning Disabled").
www.visonandlearninginstitute.com.au
www.acbo.org.au leading to: http://www.covd.org/
Distance Learning Programs for Gifted Children
http://www.gomilpitas.com/homeschooling/weblinks/giftedDPLs.htm
The New South Wales Gifted & Talented Children's Association
Website (An excellent reference, contact, counselling and information
site for teachers and parents Internationally):
http://www.nswagtc.org.au/
http://www.nswagtc.org.au/ozgifted/
A terrific Australian site for links and resources is:
The Austega Gifted Resource Centre
http://www.austega.com/gifted/
Two gifted discussion groups for parents:
1 for preschoolers, babies and toddlers, more info
to be found at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/giftedpre/;
to subscribe send a blank email to: giftedpre-subscribe@yahoogroups.com
2 for K-12; more info can be found at
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/giftedkid/
to subscribe send a blank email to
giftedkid-subscribe@yahoogroups.com
The groups have a great sense of community and discuss a wide variety of issues.
Virtual School for the Gifted (Australian virtual school offering a
variety of enrichment and extension courses for gifted children via
the Internet ):
http://www.vsg.edu.au
A directory of frequently-visited pages re
gifted children:
http://directory.google.com/Top/Reference/Education/K_through_12/Gifted_Education/
Distance learning programs for the Gifted:
http://www.eskimo.com/~user/zdist.html
Welcome to the Gifted Resources Home Page:
http://www.eskimo.com/~user/kids.html
The National Foundation for Gifted & Creative Children:
http://www.nfgcc.org
The Gifted Development Centre:
http://www.gifteddevelopment.com
The website of a parent founded & run school for gifted children
in Cincinnati, Ohio, U.S.A
http://www.academygc.org/
LINKS Re HIGHLY
GIFTED CHILDREN:
"Life in the Asynchronous Family" by Kathi Kearney: http://www.homeeducator.com/FamilyTimes/articles/8-3article12.htm
"Is it a Cheetah?" by Stephanie
Tolan:
http://www.hollingworth.org/cheetah.html
"Questions and Answers About Profoundly Gifted Children,"
by the
Davidson Foundation: http://www.davidsonfoundation.org/questions.htm
http://www.gifteddevelopment.com/Articles/Different%20Worlds.html
"Stuck in Another Dimension: The Exceptionally Gifted Child in
School,"
by Stephanie Tolan: http://www.hollingworth.org/stuck.html
"Highly Gifted Children in Full Inclusion Classrooms," by Kathi
Kearney:
http://www.hollingworth.org/fullincl.html
"Don't Throw Away the Old Binet," by Linda Silverman &
Kathi Kearney
http://members.aol.com/discanner/dontthrow.html
"Current Use of the Stanford Binet Form L-M," by Barbara
Gilman and
Annette Revel Sheely:
http://www.gifteddevelopment.com/Articles/Current%20Use.html
The "Riverside Letter," concerning current use of the
Stanford Binet L-M
with gifted children:
http://www.gifteddevelopment.com/Articles/riverside_publishing.htm
"A Study of 241 Profoundly Gifted Children," by Karen
Rogers:
http://www.gifteddevelopment.com/Articles/AStudyOf241ExtraordGC.htm
The Buffalo State Creativity Center site also has an electronic "reading room" with many great articles, research and otherwise, about aspects of creativity and the creative problem solving process. It may be found here: http://www.buffalostate.edu/~creatcnt/reading.html
This page is still being written, and there is
still a lot of information to add here. If you are particularly interested
in this page, please email me to let me know; of the pages on this site which
are still incomplete, I will give higher priority to any about which I receive
email enquiries: helendowland@senet.com.au