Well it never hurts to investigate when something catches your interest. The Giftedness trail of articles will be written about people's experiences. Some things you read will have you nodding in agreement.
Does your kid sound gifted? You've said twice she's very intelligent. I'd say yes. I guess there's levels of giftedness.
I guess you're asking if you should worry about nurturing giftedness when you should be focusing on remediating difficulties. I looked for an article that says you should do both because that's what I think.
http://www.davidsongifted.org/db/Articles_id_10665.aspx. Although most of the energy in school meetings centers on providing accommodations, practice reveals that accommodations focus mainly on meeting grade-level objectives while ignoring gifted potential. Furthermore, the manner in which accommodations are carried out is often insensitive to the fragility of 2e students, causing social and emotional consequences.
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Since I don't know you, your lifestyle, your concerns I don't really know what step your on so I can show you hoagies.com list of 2e consultants if your looking for a professional, or point you to the gold guy on the left sidebar of this page underneath that searchbar that says the Davidson institute for talent development (it's a clickable link), or pour myself a beverage and sit here and swap stories about our kids. Mine's a preschooler. But I have been educating him for 2 years. We do daily word problems I get in the e-mail from
www.bedtimemath.com. If he gets antsy on a long car ride we all take turns making and answering word problems. Sometimes his makes sense sometimes they don't. Sometimes he does simple math on his hands, sometimes in his head, sometimes he's wildly innaccurate. It's funny 'cause someone we see around sometimes found out my son will be going to school this year so he was teaching him 2+3=? , 4-2=? using his fingers. After awhile my son asked what's 6+4-1=? I don't know if my son knows the answer to that. It's hit or miss. I've showed him a row of digits to add or simple two part word problems but nothing with mixed operation. I thought, "does he know you can do that or is he being silly?"
I guess playing and being silly means "let's play math quiz" at your dinner table or in my car. I would say that's cool.