One Profoundly Gifted Kid's -- Now Grown Up -- Story
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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 01/28/2009
There
are many different ways to raise and educate a profoundly gifted child;
and for readers of Parenting for High Potential, I will dispense with
the usual, “How did you know your child was so gifted?” stories.
For
most of us, the story is completely similar from our child’s birth to
about age 5 or 6 when we started dealing with the schools.
How we
handle the school years, and how our child handles the school years,
can vary tremendously.
This
is a brief overview of the approach I took with my middle son, Charlie.