Join us February 11th in the Performing Arts Center to see Linda Silverman.  This event is open to all current ACS parents and the public. 

 

Nationally known author and speaker, Linda Kreger Silverman, will present on the nature of giftedness and talent. She will address the unique characteristics of gifted children including their emotional sensitivities and intensities; perfectionism; siblings and birth order; understanding introversion; underachievement; and the keys to successful parenting.

Linda Silverman, Ph.D. is a Licensed Psychologist and Director of the Institute for the Study of Advanced Development and its subsidiary, the Gifted Child Development Center (www.gifteddevelopment.com) in Denver. Over 5,700 children have been assessed at the Gifted Development Center in the past thirty years. Dr. Silverman also founded Visual-Spatial Resource ( www.visualspatial.org). Her Ph.D is in educational psychology and special education from the University of Southern California. For nine years, Dr. Silverman served on the faculty of the University of Denver in counseling psychology and gifted education. She co-chaired the NAGC Task Force on IQ Interpretation, during which research was conducted leading to the extended norms on the WISC-IV. She has been studying the psychology and education of the gifted since 1961 and has written over 300 articles, chapters, and books in gifted education, including Counseling the Gifted and Talented, Upside-Down Brilliance: The Visual-Spatial Learner and Advanced Development: A Collection of Works on Gifted Adults. Dr. Silverman is a nationally recognized speaker and practitioner in this specialty area. She has delivered hundreds of keynote addresses, along with conference, seminar, and symposium presentations.

 

 

To attend you must register and purchase your ticket online.