James Alvino

James Alvino is an author and educational journalist whose work has focused on gifted children and parenting. He wrote Parent’s Guide to Raising a Gifted Toddler: Recognizing and Developing the Potential of Your Child from Birth to Five Years (1989) and Parent’s Guide to Raising a Gifted Child: Recognizing and Developing Your Child’s Potential from Preschool to Adolescence (1996), both published by Little, Brown or its related imprints.

Alvino also authored Considerations and Strategies for Parenting the Gifted Child, a 1995 monograph published by the University of Connecticut’s National Research Center on the Gifted and Talented. Publisher biographies additionally identify him as holding a Ph.D. in philosophy from Boston College and as a former publisher and educational journalist.