Children:
http://www.hoagiesgifted.org/characteristics....
http://www.hoagiesgifted.org/identification.h...

Adults:
http://giftedservices.com.au/adults.html
http://www.gifteddevelopment.com/What_is_Gift...

And:
http://tuscanycircle.net/post/iq_refined

For those not yet in-the-know... Homeschooling a gifted child is usually more challenging to the parents than homeschooling a slow child, deviation from parental mean being equal but oppositely signed. For example, homeschooling a kid with an IQ of 130 will be at least as challenging as homeschooling a kid with an IQ of 90 for a parent with an IQ of 110. Gifted children can be difficult to challenge, especially if they're significantly more gifted than their parents (it happens). The way they think is also unusual; this fact becomes increasingly true as with ever higher IQs. In other words, a child with an IQ of 150 will process information, communicate, perceive, and recall very differently than one with an IQ of 120. The key to good homeschooling is to teach to the child's learning style, but when it differs significantly from the parents', it places extra burdens on the parents to overcome their own limitations. I don't want to scare any parents of gifted children, but I don't want you to take such a job lightly either.

I don't want to beat this horse too much as it's been beaten beyond recognition elsewhere, but it needs to be stated. This is not in response to Charla's query, per se, but is a general statement to parents. Not all children are gifted.

Every parent likes to think their child is gifted. Statistically, it's just not true. Sure, every child is a gift, a gift from the Almighty and a miracle of creation in himself/herself. And every child has a fairly unique set of gifts, even if one of these gifts is a simplistic mentality (for great wisdom can come from even the simple). However, calling every child "gifted" is merely an attempt to destroy the plain meaning of the word and a sinful attempt to make everyone equal. Rather than elevating the worth of the slow child, calling him gifted merely pulls the truly gifted down to his intellectual level. This is most easily seen in government schools, of course. (By the way, the method of teaching gifted children in government schools--even most private schools--is merely to give them more work. As the average teacher is rather dull, it's quite a stretch to expect them to teach gifted children competently, least of all in groups.)

The odds of a child having an IQ above 130 are less than 1 in 50. Being profoundly gifted is extremely rare, perhaps 1 in a million or rarer. (This is not to say lower but still above-average IQs aren't gifted, mind you, though they will be less pronounced.) Being gifted truly is an exceptional quality, not a common one. Don't cheapen these exceptional children by falsely claiming "every child is gifted."

"Creative Home Schooling - A Resource Guide for Smart Families" by Lisa Rivero

"Gifted Children at Home - A Practical Guide for Homeschooling Families" by Janice Baker, Kathleen Julicher, and Maggie Hogan.

http://www.pagiftededucation.info/documents/R...

Thanks for all the references. I was looking specifically at those two books (in a group of about a dozen) last night and will start with those. Good direction and insight as usual. Thanks!