Upcoming Presentations
The Gifted Development Center has created a cadre of professionals in the field of giftedness to educate, encourage and support gifted people and the organizations that serve them throughout the world. National and world-renowned specialists in the field have gathered together to bring their expertise and knowledge to you through our Speakers’ Bureau. Their specialties include:
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Emotional/Social Development
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Visual-Spatial Learners
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Parenting & Parent Advocacy
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Twice Exceptional Children & AD/HD
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Instructional Strategies & Curriculum
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Research & Program Coordination
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Counseling & Underachievement
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Assessment of the Self
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Gifted Girls
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Homeschooling
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Diversity
When gifted children are nurtured, society benefits. But when ignored or misdirected, they can become society’s misfits. Gifted children have unique and special needs that deserve suitable methods and appropriations. They can become dispirited in a traditional educational environment.
Our teachers and counselors need tools and strategies; our schools need funding and programs; parents need education and support; and gifted children need assessment, understanding, attention and an appropriate education.
The Gifted Development Center seeks to meet these needs through research, publication, consultation, the Speakers’ Bureau and our newly launched, GDC Global - a team of professionals able to travel to your community to offer presentations, testing and counseling.
Experts in the field of giftedness stand ready to serve your needs. Each speaker is well known and versed in the general field of giftedness. Each has at least one specialty within the field and a unique style of presentation.
Contact us.
We can help you decide on a
speaker to meet your needs.
Speakers and Topics
Linda Kreger Silverman, Ph.D. (bio)
Visual-spatial learners; Why G/T programs? Counseling; Gifted girls; Social/Emotional needs of the gifted; Parenting; Gifted/LD
To view Linda's abstracts (click here)
Member of the GDC Global Team
Alexandra "Allie" Golon (bio)
Successfully parenting visual-spatial children; Teaching strategies for visual-spatial learners; Parenting gifted children; Acceleration for the gifted; Sibling Issues within gifted families; Homeschooling gifted children and/or visual-spatial learners
To view Allie's abstracts (click here)
Member of the GDC Global Team
Linda Leviton, M.A., MFT (bio)
Visual-spatial learners; Emotional needs of the gifted; Parenting gifted and/or visual-spatial children; School Advocacy; Family systems; Family therapy
To view Linda's abstracts (click here)
Stephanie S. Tolan, M.A. (bio)
- The creative process; Highly gifted; Parenting; “Is it a Cheetah?” Children’s literature
Karen Rogers, Ph.D. (bio)
- What the research says re: G/T programming; Acceleration; Curriculum; Developing IEPs
Annemarie Roeper, Ed.D. (bio)
- Assessment of emotions; The gifted Self; Global issues;
Self-actualization and Interdependence
Michael Piechowski, Ph.D. (bio)
- Emotional giftedness; Spiritual giftedness; Dabrowski’s theory; Transpersonal
psychology; Empowering techniques for children
Ken Seeley, Ed.D. (bio)
- Reversing Underachievement; Program evaluation; Arts & the schools;
Delinquency; Early child G/T
Kathi Kearney, M.A. Ed. (bio)
- Highly gifted; Homeschooling; Assessment; Internet resources; Curriculum; Family
Penny Choice, M.A., M. Ed. (bio)
- Differentiation; Process/Problem-based learning
Nicky Marone, M.A. (bio)
- Gifted girls; Parenting; Instructional strategies
Julie Gonzales, M.A. (bio)
- Advocacy; School/parent partners; Legislation
Bobbie Gilman, M.S. (bio)
- Parent advocacy; Highly gifted; Assessment
Member of the GDC Global Team
Diana Howard, Ph.D. (bio)
- Diversity; Reggio Emelia EC programs; Literature
Steven Haas, M.A., M.P.A. (bio)
- Visual-spatial learners; Math strategies
Annette Revel Sheely, M.A. (bio)
- Counseling; Developing friends; Assessment
Michael Davis, Ph.D. (bio)
- Personality type; Conflict resolution; Counseling
Barbara Hutton, M.B.A. (bio)
- Administration; Best practices; Asynchrony
Are we coming to
your area?
We can help you decide on a
speaker to meet your needs.
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