About GTCASA

The Gifted and Talented Children's Association of South Australia is a group of people concerned about excellence in all aspects of children's development. Families, educators, psychologists and other committed people are members.

What are the Gifted and Talented Children's Association of South Australia's aims?

To offer support to parents and caregivers of gifted children, including gifted and learning disabled children.
To assist parents and caregivers in the provision of supplementary educational experiences for gifted children.
To liaise with educational authorities on the needs of gifted students in the educational setting.
To support professional development of teachers where requested.
To raise public awareness of the needs of gifted children and ways of fostering their development.
To provide opportunities for gifted children to meet regularly with one another to foster their intellectual, social and emotional development.
To make resources available for students studying education/psychology for the gifted.

What does the Gifted and Talented Children's Association of South Australia do?

We provide:

Opportunities for social and intellectual contact for children with gifts and talents.
Informative and social meetings for parents concurrent with some Saturday student programs and discussion groups for parents.
A newsletter four times a year with articles of interest to parents, caregivers and educators, which also contains details of student programs.
A resource collection of selected books, magazines, interstate newsletters, relevant international publications, audio/video cassettes and other media.
Seminars, workshops, conferences and teacher training and development courses.
Seminars and workshops for parents.
Liaison with State, National and International Gifted and Talented Children's Associations. Including affiliation with the Australian Association for the Education of Gifted and Talented Ltd.

Who is eligible?

Children are referred to The Gifted and Talented Children's Association by teachers and psychologists on the grounds of intellectual and/or academic giftedness. As the student programs are extremely challenging and involve academic enrichment and extension, children referred to the Association should possess exceptional abilities and/or be capable of outstanding performance in one or more fields of academic endeavour.

Applications for membership should include objective information about the child's ability, such as IQ test results and/or other standardised test information. Nominations from teachers and parents is also part of the process used to determine a child's eligibility.

Created on 5-May-2004 11:12 PM by admin
Updated on 6-Dec-2007 08:03 PM by braya

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