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Gifted children

Here are entered works on children with above-average abilities, including talented elementary and secondary school students. Works on college and university students with above-average abilities are entered under Talented students.

See also what's at Wikipedia, your library, or elsewhere.

• Exceptional children
• Gifted persons

• Gifted children -- Biography
• Gifted children -- Education
• Gifted children -- Fiction
• Gifted children -- Periodicals
• Gifted children -- United States
• Educational acceleration
• Colburn, Zerah, 1804-1840

• Bright children
• Child prodigies
• Children, Gifted
• Highly capable children (Gifted children)
• Mentally advanced children
• Prodigies, Child
• Superior children
• Talented children

• A Memoir of Zerah Colburn, Written by Himself (Springfield, MA: G. and C. Merriam, 1833), by Zerah Colburn (page images at HathiTrust)

• Viola Olerich, the Famous Baby Scholar: An Illustrated Biography (Chicago: Laird and Lee, c1900), by Henry Olerich
  • multiple formats at Google
  • page images at HathiTrust

• Gifted Child Quarterly (partial serial archives)
• The Gifted Child Newsletter (1957) (full serial archives)

• National Excellence: A Case for Developing America's Talent (HTML at ed.gov)

• The Hampdenshire Wonder (London: Sidgwick and Jackson, 1911), by J. D. Beresford
  • Gutenberg text
  • multiple formats at archive.org

• Gifted Child Quarterly (partial serial archives)
• The Gifted Child Newsletter (1957) (full serial archives)

• Learning and Understanding: Improving Advanced Study of Mathematics and Science in U.S. High Schools (2002), by National Research Council Center for Education (page images with commentary at NAP)

• A Memoir of Zerah Colburn, Written by Himself (Springfield, MA: G. and C. Merriam, 1833), by Zerah Colburn (page images at HathiTrust)

Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.

• Bridging the Gap: The Transfer Class (Harvard-Newton bulletin #3; Cambridge, MA: Harvard University , 1915), by Frank Watson Wright
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • multiple formats at archive.org

• Child Care Work with Emotionally Disturbed Children (Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1981), by Genevieve W. Foster, Karen VanderVen, Eleanore R. Kroner, Nancy Trevorrow Carbonara, and George M. Cohen (page images at Pitt)
• Children's Mental Health: Problems and Services (1986), by United States Congress Office of Technology Assessment (PDF files at Princeton)

• Treatment of Children with Mental Illness (revised 2009), by National Institute of Mental Health (U.S.) (HTML and PDF with commentary at NIH)

• Council Review (full serial archives)
• The Psychological Clinic (full serial archives)
• Exceptional Children (partial serial archives)
• Journal of Exceptional Children (partial serial archives)

• Exceptional Children (partial serial archives)
• Journal of Exceptional Children (partial serial archives)

• Misdeelde Kinderen: Inleiding tot de Paedagogische Pathologie en Therapie (in Dutch; Groningen: J. B. Walters, 1904), by Jan Klootsema (page images at HathiTrust)
• Working With the Handicapped: A Leader's Guide (New York: Girl Scouts of the U.S.A., c1954), by Joan L. Carter, illust. by Irene K. Lewis (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Camp School (London: Allen and Unwin, 1917), by Margaret McMillan (PDF files at Roehampton)
• Teaching Every Student in the Digital Age: Universal Design for Learning, by David H. Rose and Anne Meyer, contrib. by Nicole Strangman and Gabrielle Rappolt (illustrated HTML with commentary at ascd.org)

• Exceptional Children (partial serial archives)
• Journal of Exceptional Children (partial serial archives)

• Implementing Schoolwide Projects: An Idea Book, by Ellen M. Pechman and Leila Fiester (HTML at ed.gov)

• A Comparison of Especially Designed Art Activities With Traditional Art Activities As Used With Intellectually Handicapped Children and Youth (College Park, MD: University of Maryland, 1961), by Esther Mills, Richard Wiggin, and Jean Hebeler (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Three "R's" for the Retarded (Repetition, Relaxation, and Routine): A Program for Training the Retarded Child at Home (New York: National Association for Retarded Children, ca. 1954), by Naomi H. Chamberlain and Dorothy H. Moss (page images at HathiTrust)
• Early Childhood, by Margaret McMillan (PDF files at Roehampton)

• Comprehensive Individualized Curriculum and Instructional Design (c2015), ed. by Samuel Sennott and Sheldon Lawrence Loman (at pdxscholar.library.pdx.edu)

• Helping Children Who Are Blind: Family and Community Support for Children with Vision Problems (2000), by Sandy Niemann and Namita Jacob (PDF files at hesperian.org)

• Helping Children Who Are Blind: Family and Community Support for Children with Vision Problems (2000), by Sandy Niemann and Namita Jacob (PDF files at hesperian.org)

• How and Why Lisa's Dad Got to Be Famous (c2006), by Michael Allen (PDF in the UK)

• A Little Shepherd of Provence (Boston: L.C. Page and Co., c1910), by Evaleen Stein, illust. by Diantha Horne Marlowe (illustrated HTML and page images at Indiana)

• Harding's Luck (London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1909), by E. Nesbit, illust. by H. R. Millar (illustrated HTML at Celebration of Women Writers)
• Harding's Luck (New York: F. A. Stokes, 1910), by E. Nesbit, illust. by H. R. Millar (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Two in a Zoo (Indianapolis: Bobbs Merrill Co., c1904), by Curtis Dunham and Oliver Herford
  • Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
  • page images at childrensbooksonline.org
• His Big Opportunity, by Amy Le Feuvre (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• The Story of a Persian Cat (London et al.: T. Nelson and Sons, 1898), by Jennie Chappell (page images at Florida)
• Sue: A Little Heroine, by L. T. Meade (Gutenberg text)

• Simplified Signs: A Manual Sign-Communication System for Special Populations (2 volumes; Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers, c2020), by John D. Bonvillian, Nicole Kissane Lee, Tracy T. Dooley, and Filip T. Loncke, illust. by Val Nelson-Metlay
  • Volume 1 (Principles, Background, and Application): multiple formats with commentary at Open Book Publishers
  • Volume 2 (Simplified Sign Lexicon, Descriptions, and Memory Aids): multiple formats with commentary at Open Book Publishers

• Helping Children Who Are Deaf, by Sandy Niemann, Devorah Greenstein, and Darlena David (PDF files at hesperian.org)
• Helps and Hindrances of Deaf Children in Acquiring Speech and Language at the Natural Age (1908), by Mary Smith Garrett
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only

• Youth Violence: A Report of the Surgeon General (2001), by United States Public Health Service (HTML at surgeongeneral.gov)

• Helping Children Who Are Blind: Family and Community Support for Children with Vision Problems (2000), by Sandy Niemann and Namita Jacob (PDF files at hesperian.org)

• The Measurement of Sensory Thresholds in Exceptional Children: An Experimental Approach to Some Problems of Differential Diagnosis and Education With Special Reference to Hearing (Cooperative research project #418; Houston: University of Houston, 1960), by Lee Meyerson and John L. Michael (page images at HathiTrust)

• Little People: A Father Reflects on His Daughter's Dwarfism and What it Means to be Different (Boston: Northeastern University, c2007), by Dan Kennedy (multiple formats at Northeastern)
• Little People (2010 edition), by Dan Kennedy (HTML with commentary at littlepeoplethebook.com)

• The Education of Exceptional Children: A Consideration of Public School Problems and Policies in the Field of Differentiated Education (New York and London: The Century Co., 1924), by John Louis Horn (page images at HathiTrust)

More items available under broader and related terms at left.