FOrEigN righTs 2013 | SELF-HELP
155 x 240 mm | ca. 240 pages 75,000 words paperback French rights in option
Highly Gifted Children Tessa Kieboom • Indispensable book to parents, teachers and social workers • Full of examples and practical advice • More than 10,000 copies were sold of the first edition Five years after the publication of Highly Gifted Children, expert Tessa Kieboom has written a fully updated edition, in line with the latest scientifi c research and fi lled to the brim with new insights.
Tessa Kieboom is an authority and pioneer if it comes to research into the matter and guidance of gifted people. She leads the Centre for Giftedness Research in Antwerp, where hundreds of children are guided every year.
In this book, she explains why being intellectually highly gifted is not a luxury problem. Highly gifted children are in fact very fragile and they have a great need for understanding and suitable guidance both at school and at home. Besides this, the author provides answers to frequently asked questions such as: what exactly is intellectual giftedness? How is it diagnosed? What are the consequences? How do you take care of gifted children?
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