We are excited to announce that ACT Gifted & Talented Local Support Group and Australian Gifted Support Centre have organized for Dr Linda Silverman to present in Canberra on 10th September. Please share this information with others who could be interested.
TOPIC: Do gifted children have special needs?
Gifted children develop more asynchronously than others, and often feel unable to relate to age-mates. All who interact with them must understand their characteristics and over excitabilities. Those who reach for the stars have parents and teachers who believe in them, accept their intense personalities and support their passions.
Gifted children need to be allowed to progress at their own pace through a rigorous curriculum. Their social and emotional development depends on their developing close friends with true peers who are like themselves. Most of all, they need teachers who care about them and are willing to adapt the curriculum to their learning needs.
In order to be the perfect parent, you need unlimited funds, unlimited patience, an encyclopedic mind, and someone to sleep for you. We briefly discuss issues such as coping with the characteristics of giftedness; siblings and birth order; understanding introversion; gender issues; and keys to successful parenting. You will also receive a set of handouts including "guidelines for parents of the gifted" which contain suggestions for harmonious family life.
Registration from 6.30pm. Tea and coffee included. Dr. Silverman will have copies of 'Upside Down Brilliance' and 'Giftedness 101' for sale. Purchase your copy and have it signed from 6:15pm to 6:45pm.
Special thanks for the support of University of Canberra Senior Secondary College Lake Ginninderra
Linda Kreger Silverman, Ph.D., is a licensed psychologist. She founded the Institute for the Study of Advanced Development, and its subsidiaries, Gifted Development Centre (GDC) and Visual-Spatial Resource in Denver, Colorado. In the last 33 years, she has studied 6,000 children who have been assessed at GDC, the largest data bank on
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