Recent Newsworthy Items
New Yale Academic Skills Clinic at the Yale Child Study Center
The Academic Skills Clinic works with children and youth from pre-kindergarten to college age who are experiencing or are at significant risk for academic difficulties. Children with a wide range of profiles may fit under this broad umbrella. These include, but are not limited to, the following:
• Children diagnosed with a specific learning disability in one or more academic areas
• Children with gifts and talents, with or without academic difficulties
• Children with academic difficulties that are secondary to other developmental or genetic disorders (e.g., ADHD, Asperger’s Disorder, Fragile X, Turner’s Syndrome)
• Children adopted from overseas
• Children with speech or language difficulties (e.g., childhood apraxia of speech, specific language impairment, phonological disorder)
• High school and college students with a history of learning difficulties who are struggling academically
For more information, please click here.
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The Do's and Don'ts for Raising Gifted Kids
By Deborah L. Ruf, Ph.D.
Parents have usually reached the "We're desperate" stage by the time
they seek out a person to help them with their gifted child. In
fact, although all the background information on IQ scores, gifted
programs, and affective needs is nice, what parents really want is
to staunch the bleeding....more>>
Archaeology Grant links Bridgeport and Westport students
By Kerstin Warner, Bedford Middle School, Westport
What do broken pots, animal bones, a thimble, buckets of dirt,
rulers and trowels have to do with gifted students from Bridgeport
and Westport?...more>>
Brain Science and Research News: Brain Bee Battles
by Bhakti Nagalla, a Junior at the Greater Hartford Academy of Math
and Sciences from Farmington , CT
I'll never forget when my freshman biology teacher brought out a
human brain in one day. I found it a bit overwhelming to be near
something that had once had so much power over someone's life...more>>
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