Gifted Children & How Trauma Impacts Them

20 Things Gifted Children Wish Their Teachers and Parents Understood Three experts share their knowledge and expertise to help parents and educators better support gifted children as well as gifted children coping with trauma.Many gifted children, especially highly gifted children, suffer their own kind of trauma as they cope with being different and trying to fit into society and expectations placed on them. Having society, parents, teachers, a school system not understand them and how they think and learn, can have a profound impact on a child. These children are also just as likely to suffer from other traumas as any other child; however, their unique sensitivities and pressures they are already under put them at a unique risk. Combining decades of experience and firsthand experience, the authors have developed many strategies parents and teachers should know when working with gifted children who may have experienced or are experiencing differentforms of trauma. This book will open