Dr. Linda Silverman: Still Gifted After All These Years

Presented by Boulder Valley Gifted and Talented and by the Boulder Valley School District. Giftedness is not about recognized achievement; it is about who you are, not what you do. You have unique characteristics that lead to unusual experiences throughout the lifespan. You are intense, complex, sensitive, perfectionistic, idealistic, mission driven, indignant about injustices no one else seems to notice. In this presentation, you will learn how a deeper understanding of your giftedness can lead to greater compassion for others and enable you to fulfill your life’s mission. Linda Kreger Silverman, Ph.D., is a licensed psychologist. She founded the Institute for the Study of Advanced Development (ISAD) and Gifted Development Center (GDC) in Westminster, Colorado. In the last 44 years, GDC has assessed more than 6,500 children, the largest data bank on this population. Linda’s Ph.D. is from the University of Southern California. She specializes in twice exceptional and exceptionally gifted children and gifted girls. Since 1961, she has written over 300 articles, chapters and books, including Counseling the Gifted and Talented, Upside-Down Brilliance: The Visual-Spatial Learner, Advanced Development: A Collection of Works on Gifted Adults and Giftedness 101, which has been translated into Swedish and Korean.