[HPforGrownups] OT Plea for help

[Peg Kerr]

No: HPFGUIDX 6030

Heather Edmonds wrote:

> Someone on this list I think it was Peg quoted from a book or article which
> suggested that gifted children/ adults can become obbssessed with a certain
> subject for  aperiod of time and then it will run its course and they'll
> move onto the next.
>
> Please can you let me have the reference to this article/ book as I would
> like to quote it in relation to a case study of a child on my teaching Prac
> whom I think it applies to. While on the subject of pleas for help I hadn't
> checked my mail in a week and Peg's essay on justice is missing. Perhaps my
> ISP ate it. Please could someone send it to me.
>
> Thanks
>
> Heather.

Yes, that was me.  I went back to my materials and realized that it was a two
sheet hand out I'd received from the Minneapolis School District when I went to
a conference on Gifted and Talented children.  At the top, it says "How to Live
Successfully With the Gifted Child" and underneath it says "Taken from Jeanne
L. Delp."

What I quoted was item number 3 on a list of 17:

"Gifted Kids have an irresistible desire to devour a subject.  Sometimes to the
exclusion of all others.  The child picks the subject, and is often seen as
persistent and stubborn.  It will not work to try and interest him in new
topics.  Let him devour."

I did a Google search on Jeanne Delp and ran across several references.  She
was apparently an educator in California specializing in education of the
gifted and talented, now deceased.  See:

http://members.aol.com/cacg1/gifted.htm

which lists, among other books

A Handbook for Parents of Gifted and Talented: Also Helpful for Educators by
Jeanne Delp and Ruth Martinson

Perhaps this list is taken from that.  There is also a reference to Jeanne Delp
at:

http://www.paed.uni-muenchen.de/~psydiag/gifted/BIB10.HTM

Hope this helps.

The Justice essay was #5892, and there were a number of replies.  I will send
it to you separately.

Peg