Social & Emotional Needs of the Gifted, Adults and Children
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Deborah Ruf
Deborah Ruf, Ph.D., the founder of TalentIgniter, is an international authority in gifted assessment, test interpretation, and guidance for the gifted. Having been a parent, teacher and administrator in elementary through graduate education, she writes and speaks about school issues and social and emotional adjustment of gifted children. She is co-author of the book Successfully Parenting the Gifted Child and author of Losing Our Minds: Gifted Children Left Behind. See the Ruf Estimates of Levels of Gifted Online Assessment on her site. By Deborah Ruf
Published on 10/15/2006
One
must earn the gift through hard work, accomplishment, and good
attitude. Many people view high intelligence with a mixture of fear,
interest, admiration, resentment, contempt, suspicion, and
appreciation.
Most
of us are familiar with the sometimes rather delighted observation,
“Even though he was really smart as a kid, he hasn’t amounted to
anything.”