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Parent Questionnaire

Please fill out and send it to us prior to your first appointment....

Scholarship Application

It is our mission at Kingfisher Learning, Inc. to provide comprehensive, caring, and efficacious services. To help make these services available and affordable to all, I offer scholarships to a number of individuals in financial and/or educational need. 

Teacher Questionnaire

Please give a copy to each of your child's teachers and return to us prior...

Remote academic coaching and general student support services offered

Kingfisher Learning has always provided remote academic coaching and executive skills instruction via Skype or...

Why is an Aptitude-Achievement Discrepancy Not Synonymous with Disability?

“We can only be kept in the cages we refuse to see.”
– Stefan Molyneux

Why Can’t We Use the Word Gifted?

I often ponder this question and wonder why “gifted” causes teachers, parents and students (some, not all) to bristle at this word.  In his address to the Iowa Association for the Gifted (2005) Michael C. Thompson said, “Somehow, in our egalitarian society, the fact of gifted intelligence puts us in a state of ethical dissonance.  What we know about gifted children appears to clash with what we know about social equality and universal human value.  But the...