SENGAuthors: Using Picture Books to Help Little Ones Learn About Themselves

Join Authors and SENG Directors Gayle Bentley and Lin Lim for an interactive session around the importance of leveraging psychologically safe ways, such as using picture books,  to build strong positive relationships and discuss tricky topics with young children. The time to build skills for understanding ourselves and resiliency for life's uncertainties starts when children are young. Come with your burning questions and share your successes on how to booster the social and emotional health of young children with or without formal identification.

Ticket sales benefit the SENG Scholarship Fund.

About the Author: 

Gayle Bentley is a third-year doctoral candidate at Bridges Graduate School of Cognitive Diversity in Education and the mother of three neurodivergent sons. She has taught instrumental music in the public schools for 23 years and now serves as the Academic Director of 2e4ME Academy in Newport Beach, California. She is also the founder of The Bentley Center.  Last year, she published her first book with Dr. Lin Lim, Using Picture Books to Help Little Ones Learn About Themselves. She regularly presents at state and national gifted and 2e conferences, including SENG and NAGC.

Dr. Lin Lim holds a doctorate in human development psychology (Boston University), an Academic Graduate Certificate in Mind, Brain, and Teaching (Johns Hopkins University), and Twice-exceptional Education (Bridges Graduate School of Cognitive Diversity in Education). Her parenting journey with her complex outlier children has led to her current interdisciplinary academic interest and focus on synthesizing cultural, attitudes, and conceptual thinking around extreme complex outliers into practical applications. She is an international presenter and keynote speaker on topics including education, diversity, twice-exceptionality, giftedness, interdisciplinary social science, human development, and psychology.  She is active in gifted-related diversity equity awareness and advocacy. She is a Dean at Bridges Graduate School of Cognitive Diversity in Education, founder of a non-profit Quark Collaboration Institute, served as President at SENG 2021-2023, and currently serves as the immediate past president at SENG.