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site:macleans.ca 'No room for gifted kids'
Macleans Magazine, February 2009. Online and print edition.

A Nation Deceived: How Schools Hold Back America's Brightest Students
Nicholas Colangelo, Susan G. Assouline, Miraca U. M. Gross : The Connie Belin and Jacqueline N. Blank International Center for Gifted Education and Talent Development, c2004.A two volume electronic book covering aspects of how challenging it is for gifted children in a schooling system that is unable to provide educational acceleration.

Special needs advocacy resource book : what you can do now to advocate for your exceptional child's education
Rich Weinfeld and Michelle Davis. Waco, Tex. : Prufrock Press Inc., c2008.It is available at the Central Branch of the Vancouver Library. Although it is oriented toward the American school system it still has some useful information.

Uniquely Gifted: Identifying and Meeting the Needs of the Twice-Exceptional Student
Ed. Kiesa Kay. Gilsum, USA: Avocus Publishing, 2000.

The Myth of Laziness
Mel Levine. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2003.

The Mislabeled Child: How Understanding Your Child's Unique Learning Style Can Open the Door to Success
Brocke Eide, MD and Fernette Eide, MD. New York: Hyperion Books, 2006.

In the Mind's Eye: Visual Thinkers, Gifted People with Learning Difficulties, Computer Images, and the Ironies of Creativity
Thomas West. Tonbridge, UK: Prometheus, 1991.

Intellectual Giftedness in Disabled Persons
Joanne Whitmore and June Maker. Rockville, USA: Aspen Systems Corp., 1985.

Scattered Minds
Gabor Mate. New York: Vintage Press, 2000.

The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time
Mark Haddon. New York: Vintage Press, 2004.

Smart Boys: Talent, Manhood and the search for meaning
Barbara A. Kerr and Sanford J. Cohn

Helping Boys Succeed in School
Harry W. Neu and Rich Weinfeld: Prufrock Press 2007