The Universal Experience of Being Out-Of-Sync

The Universal Experience of Being Out-Of-Sync

Giftedness and Connection

Tue, February 26 2019 3:00 PM - 8:30 PM

Presenters

  • Linda Silverman

Description

When giftedness is defined as asynchronous development, it is not limited by ethnicity, gender, age, socio-economic status, or geographical or political boundaries. In all cultures, there are children who progress through the developmental milestones at a more rapid rate than their peers. The brighter they are, the more uneven their development is likely to be—intellectually, physically, socially, and emotionally. They are also likely to be out-of-sync with their agemates and with age-related cultural norms. Intellectual and personality characteristics accompany asynchrony: sensitivity, intensity, curiosity, perceptiveness, complexity, reflectiveness, and perfectionism. These characteristics are lifelong and differentiate the experience of gifted individuals from birth to maturity.

Linda Kreger Silverman, Ph.D., is a licensed clinical and counseling psychologist. She directs the Institute for the Study of Advanced Development, and its subsidiaries, the Gifted Development Center (www.gifteddevelopment.com) and Visual-Spatial Resource (www.visualspatial.org), in Denver, Colorado. 

In the last 39 years, she has studied over 6,500 children who have been assessed at GDC, the largest data bank on this population. This research enabled the creation of extended norms on the WISC-IV. Her Ph.D. is in educational psychology and special education from the University of Southern California. For nine years, she served on the faculty of the University of Denver in counseling psychology and gifted education.  She has been studying the psychology and education of the gifted since 1961 and has written over 300 articles, chapters and books, including Counseling the Gifted and Talented, Upside-Down Brilliance: The Visual-Spatial Learner, Advanced Development:  A Collection of Works on Gifted Adults, and Giftedness 101.

In addition, Linda Silverman will meet with NOVA teachers to discuss instances of 2E or twice-exceptionality. 


Location

Nova Region
2020 22nd Ave SE Olympia WA 98501

Dates

  • Tue, February 26 2019
    3:00 PM - 5:00 PM
    NOVA
  • Tue, February 26 2019
    7:00 PM - 8:30 PM
    NOVA

Registration

Event # 86504

Price
Free
Registration Ends
Sunday Jun 30, 2019 11:59 PM
Registration is now closed.

Professional Hours

Clock Hour Number: 86504
3.50 Clock Hours $15.50
3.50 Attendance Hours