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Director, Dr. Linda Silverman, awarded "Special Advocate 2007" distinction

"Supporting giftedness throughout the life cycle..."

Since 1979, The Gifted Development Center (GDC), a service of the Institute for the Study of Advanced Development, has served as a resource center for developmentally advanced children and their parents, and for gifted individuals of all ages.

We provide in-depth assessment, counseling, consulting services and innovative materials. GDC provides true expertise and experience with gifted issues and the unique perspective of looking at giftedness from the inside--as advanced awareness and emotional intensity--as well as often being out-of-sync with the rest of the world.

We have helped over 5,000 families better understand and nurture their children's development. Parents have learned about their own giftedness as well. We have the only journal on adult giftedness, Advanced Development Journal, which has brought greater self-awareness to parents.

Read more about our Director's and Center's testing experience

The Staff of the Gifted Development Center

• We're here to help. Get to know us better!
• Dr. Linda Silverman, Director
• Linda's Column
  

Assessment Services

• Psychoeducational Testing
• Unsure of whether to test your child? Read, "I Know My Child is Smart. Why Does She Need Testing?"
• Diagnostic Testing of Twice Exceptional Learners
• Recommendations for Accommodations Throughout School (e.g., IEPs; 504 Plans) and for All Types of Standardized Tests
• Guidance in school selection and grade placement
• Determining eligibility for special schools, programs and extra-curricular activities

Counseling

Counseling efforts focus on:

• acknowledgment of giftedness and exploration of its full implications
• being gifted and female
• career and educational choices
• dealing with psychological issues from a gifted viewpoint
  reversing underachievement patterns
• dealing with the unique issues of gifted adults, teens and children, including "2-E," or twice exceptional learners

Presentations

• When and where are our speakers presenting?
• Where in the world have our speakers been?
• Find out more about scheduling a speaker to present at your school, parent organization or workplace!

GDC Global

Now families don’t have to trek all the way to Denver to receive the benefits of our Center! The GDC Global Team can come to you!

We offer:

• Conferences, workshops and parent night events for parents, teachers, and others working with gifted children and visual-spatial learners
• Individual IQ testing and assessment for children ages
• Private consultations for families

Visit our GDC Global page for more information!

Are we already coming to your corner of the world?

Dial-Log

Where can you find truly knowledgeable help for your gifted child, or yourself? The expert staff at GDC stand ready to help you answer your questions, including:

• parenting
• underachievement
• giftedness and learning disabilities
• acceleration
• strategies for visual-spatial learners
• communication and mediation among parents, children and teachers
• perfectionism
• introversion
• feeling "out-of-sync"
  

Publications

We have a number of resources available to assist your journey in giftedness or raising gifted children. These include books, e-books, articles and tapes. Please visit this link to visit our online store!

Visual-Spatial Learners

An overwhelming majority of the gifted prefer a visual-spatial learning style. We offer tips for parents, teachers, and students themselves in our articles and books on this topic.

For a listing of free, downloadable articles on the visual-spatial learner concept, click here.

Visit our sister site, Visual-Spatial Resource for more!

Testimonials

Read what others have written us about their experiences with the Gifted Development Center's services and products!

* DISCLAIMER:  At the Gifted Development Center, we are skilled at working with the entire range of giftedness, including profoundly gifted, and with children from 3 1/2 through adolescence. We also work with gifted adults. We have expertise in diagnosing learning disabilities. However, we do NOT have expertise with severe attentional deficits, autism, Asperger's Syndrome, Pervasive Developmental Delay, or severe emotional problems, such as manic depression, schizophrenia, etc. Specialists in these areas should be sought, if applicable.