Category Archives: Gifted Adults
Growing Old Gifted
January 18, 2012
Growing Old Gifted Author: Annemarie Roeper Citation: The following excerpt from The “I” of the Beholder: A Guided Journey to the Essence of a Child, by Annemarie Roeper with Ann Higgins, is reprinted by permission of Great Potential Press. Reprinted in the SENGVine, Gifted Adults edition, January 2012. Much has been said, written, and researched about [...]
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The Self-Education of Gifted Adults
The Self-Education of Gifted Adults Author: Lisa Rivero Citation: First published in the SENGVine, Gifted Adult edition, January 2012 “Somewhere along the line of development we discover what we really are and then make our real decision for which we are responsible. Make that decision primarily for yourself because you can never really live anyone [...]
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The Apple Doesn’t Fall Far from the Tree: Gifted Parents Parenting Gifted Children
The Apple Doesn’t Fall Far from the Tree: Gifted Parents Parenting Gifted Children Author: Lori Comallie-Caplan Citation: First published in the SENGVine, Gifted Adult edition, January 2012 Facilitating SENG Model Parent Groups has provided me with unquestionable evidence that gifted kids come from gifted parents. What is surprising, is that parents are often unaware of [...]
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Dear SENG: Gifted Adults, A Personal Experience
Dear SENG: “Gifted Adults” – A Personal Experience Author: Helen Prince Citation: First published in the SENGVine, Gifted Adult edition, January 2012 Recently, I was surfing on the Internet in search of an article about adult giftedness and came across “Gifted Adults” on the SENG website. As I was reading the article, a surge of [...]
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Discovering the gifted ex-child
September 14, 2011
Abstract Most of the attention given to the gifted over the years has been devoted to gifted children, a population identified by unusual mental processing that sets them apart from the norms. Gifted adults, however, are recognized in our society solely by their achievements. The innate qualities of mind that are found in gifted children [...]
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Gifted Adults in Work
Gifted Adults in Work Authors: Noks Nauta and Frans Corten (Kumar Jamdagni , trans.) Noks Nauta and Frans Corten (Kumar Jamdagni , trans.) Citation: From Tijdschrift voor Bedrijfs- en Verzekeringsgeneeskunde (Journal for Occupational and Insurance Physicians). 2002 10(11) 332-335. Reprinted with permission. Gifted adults (people with a very high intelligence; 2% of the population) sometimes are not able [...]
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Can You Hear the Flowers Sing? Issues for Gifted Adults
Can You Hear the Flowers Sing? Issues for Gifted Adults Author: Deirdre V. Lovecky Citation: Copyright © American Counseling Association. Reprinted with permission from Journal of Counseling and Development, May 1986. No further reproduction authorized without written permission of the American Counseling Association. There has been comparatively little focus in the literature on the characteristics and social [...]
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Fostering adult giftedness: Acknowledging and addressing affective needs of gifted adults
Recently I had the pleasure of participating in an Internet conference with parents in Australia about the social and emotional needs of gifted children. During the two weeks of dialogue one parent, Michelle, said: My own experience (and I suspect that of many other parents of gifted children) is that my awareness of giftedness came [...]
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How to Charm Gifted Adults into Admitting Giftedness: Their Own and Somebody Else’s
The Loneliness of Being Misinformed about Giftedness In my current experience and view, the biggest “social issue of the gifted” is the painful misfit between implicit beliefs about giftedness by the non-gifted and the gifted alike and the actual or perceived reality of very many gifted adults. That misfit leads to utter loneliness: It impedes the sharing [...]
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Giftedness in the Work Environment: Backgrounds and Practical Recommendations
This article was published in Dutch in “Tijdschrift voor Bedrijfs- en Verzekeringsgeneeskunde” (Journal for Occupational Health- and Insurance Physicians), TBV 16, no. 11 (Nov. 2008): 396-399. Publisher: Bohn Stafleu Van Loghum, Houten, The Netherlands. The editor agreed with translation and publication on this website. In November 2002, an article was published in this journal entitled [...]
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