I’ve been falling a bit behind on my reading lately. I did manage to finish Misdiagnosis And Dual Diagnoses Of Gifted Children And Adults: ADHD, Bipolar, OCD, Asperger’s, Depression, And Other Disorders a couple weeks ago, but had bookmarked a number of pages to review and have yet to go back to it. I wanted to [...]
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C goes back to school tomorrow after a long winter break at home. I thought he’d be excited to go back to school, but was saddened to discover that he’s not looking forward to it at all. He’s had issues maintaining friendships this year and I think he’s starting to feel alienated. He had been happy [...] This new school year has been an adjustment for C. It’s a new school, with a school day twice as long, full of new people and new routines. While he had few social or behavioral problems last year in kindergarten, this year has been different. The guidance counselor offered to add C to her social skills [...] Back in May, Lisa from BrightKids recommended I take a look at The Einstein Syndrome: Bright Kids who Talk Late. While I read reviews and the Google preview, it wasn’t until now that I got my hands on an actual copy. The book is interesting so far, though it doesn’t seem to have a ton of [...] I chose an interesting title for my post today, because it just seemed to fit. You see, the other day I had a strange conversation with my mother. She’s witnessed some of C’s meltdowns and always tries to analyze the reasons behind them as more than his just being overly emotional (emotional overexcitability) along with hungry, [...] I mentioned a bit ago that C is very wiggly. He finds it hard to sit still and constantly fidgets. I often get frustrated playing board games with him because he ends up bumping the board repeatedly and shifting it closer and closer to me until I have no choice but to shift it back and [...] This past winter I ran into the parents of another gifted boy at one of C’s karate classes. Their son was about a year older than C and therefore made the kindergarten cut-off. A couple months into the school year his teacher requested that he be tested for the gifted program. When I met his parents, [...] If you’re curious, like I am, about sensory integration issues with gifted kids check out Asynchronous development and sensory integration intervention in the gifted and talented population. When C was younger, he had a lot of sensory issues. I mentioned earlier about his sensitivity to sound, but he also had tactile sensitivities as noted by his [...] There are a lot of words I could use to describe C, some of which are in the title of this post. Raising a gifted child takes a lot of energy and a ton of patience, both of which I feel like I’m in short supply. I’m not sure if a day goes by where I [...] The SENG webinar about living in a gifted family was tonight. It was the first I’ve participated in, though I’ve found a lot of good information on their website and have been curious about their webinars. All in all, I’d say I’m not sure I’d participate in another. It’s not that it wasn’t good, but the [...] |
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