Programs for Gifted,

Talented and Creative

ChildrenGENEVA EUNICE MEI G. ARCELAO

The African Council for Gifted and Talented

(ACfGT)

ACfGT’s main objective is to provide advocacy

or loud voice for Africa’s Gifted and Talented in

consultation with the World Council for Gifted

and Talented Children.

Asia-Pacific Federation on Giftedness (APFG)

APFG is a non-profit organization for the

development and education of gifted and

talented children in the Asia-Pacific region.

APFG consists of scholars, teachers, parents of

G/T children, and others who are interested in

development of gifted and talented children

and gifted education.

European Committee for the Education of

Children and Adolescents

European Committee for the Education of

Children and Adolescents who are

intellectually advanced, gifted, talented.

European Council for High Ability (ECHA)

ECHA has been generated by an overwhelming

demand for coordination from most European

countries, both West and East. The major goal of ECHA

is to act as a communications network to promote the

exchange of information among people interested in

high ability – educators, researchers, psychologists,

parents, and the highly able themselves.

European Day of the Talented and Gifted

The European Day of the Talented and Gifted

website has information on the European Talent

Day initiative held in Spring 2011 as well as

information on individual European country

groups that support gifted education

International Centre for Innovation in Education

(ICIE) (France)

ICIE aims to establish links between regional

programmes designed to serve gifted, creative,

and talented children.

National Association for Able Children in Education

(NACE) (United Kingdom)

NACE has specialized in teaching and learning for able,

gifted and talented pupils for over 28 years. One of the

UK's leading independent education organizations,

they support teachers in getting the best from able,

gifted and talented pupils in the everyday classroom,

whilst enabling all pupils to flourish.

National Association for Gifted Children (NAGC) (UK)

NAGC is the UK's foremost membership charity that

deals with all aspects of giftedness in children. Their

mission is to advise, support, and provide for the needs

of high ability children, young people, and their families

in England, Wales and Northern Ireland.

Famous People Who are

Exceptional

Albert Einstein

He did not speak until the age of three. Even asan adult Einstein found that searching for wordswas laborious. He found schoolwork, especiallymath, difficult and was unable to express himselfin written language. He was thought to be simpleminded (retarded), until it was realized that hewas able to achieve by visualizing rather than bythe use of language. His work on relativity, whichrevolutionized modern physics, was created in hisspare time.

Thomas Alva Edison

He was unable to read until he was

twelve years old and his writing skills were

poor throughout his life.

George Washington

He was unable to spell throughout his

life and his grammar usage was very

poor. His brother suggested that

perhaps surveying in the backwoods

might be an appropriate career for

young George.

Leonardo Da Vinci

He was fascinated with levers and

gears--so much so that they were

at the heart of nearly all his

inventions--from the crane to the

helicopter. It is also believed that

he struggled with dyslexia.

Walt Disney

He is the creator of Mickey Mouse,

recipient of 32 personal Academy

Awards for his animated features

and founder of the Disney Empire

struggled with a learning disability.

Tom Cruise

He is unable to read even today

due to severe dyslexia, he never

even finished High School. He

has though, the ability to

memorize his lines and perform

on both the stage and screen.

Henry Winkler

(actor, director, producer)

As a child was called stupid and

lazy in the classroom. Bottom 3% in

country, in math, he was thought to

have ADD, he once said "It is not

easy to compete when you have

LD, but it is possible."

Magic Johnson

He is a basketball player. Has a

reading problem, "It's a bad feeling, a

lonely feeling" "You've got to take

whatever means are necessary to

enhance your skills. Then once you've

conquered it, once you have met the

challenge, teach back and help the

next guy, because that is what it is all

about”.

Bruce Jenner

He is an Olympic decathlon

champ and barely got through

school, diagnosed as a dyslexic

(sports gave him better self-

esteem) he found that through

sports he could hold his head up

with friends and feel good about

himself.

James Earl Jones

Although known for his voice, he was bornwith a stuttering problem that made him veryself-conscious, and he was almost mute untilthe age of 15. A high school teacherdiscovered Jones had a gift for writingpoetry, thought forcing public speakingwould help him out of his silence and insistedthat he recite a poem to the class each day.Jones claims that he still stutters sometimes (itdoesn't bother him anymore) but was mostlycured by being forced to speak to anaudience.

Bill Gates

Some people claim that the chairman of

Microsoft Corp. and the richest person on

earth, displays many characteristics of

Asperger’s Syndrome. They say that he is

famously negligent about his personal

appearance and schedule and that he has

the autistic behavior of compulsively rocking

in his chair, which reportedly began early in

his childhood. He is also regarded as one of

the smartest people in American industry.