The Avery Coonley School is excited  to welcome

Dr. Linda Silverman

on Thursday, February 2, at 7:00 pm in  our Performing Arts Center

Dr. Silverman will present on  “If Our Child Is So Smart, Why Aren’t Our Lives Easier?”

Linda Kreger Silverman, Ph.D., is a licensed clinical and counseling psychologist.  She directs the Institute for the Study of Advanced Development, and its subsidiaries, the Gifted Development Center [www.gifteddevelopment.com] and Visual-Spatial Resource [www.visualspatial.org], in Denver, Colorado.  In the last 36 years, she has studied over 6,000 children who have been assessed at GDC, the largest data bank on this population. This research enabled the creation of extended norms on the WISC-IV.  Her Ph.D. is in educational psychology and special education from the University of Southern California.  For nine years, she served on the faculty of the University of Denver in counseling psychology and gifted education.  She has been studying the psychology and education of the gifted since 1961 and has written over 300 articles, chapters and books, including Counseling the Gifted and Talented, Upside-Down Brilliance: The Visual-Spatial Learner and Advanced Development:  A Collection of Works on Gifted Adults. Her latest book, Giftedness 101 (New York: Springer, 2013) went into its third printing within six months of its release.

Registration required…Tickets are $10. Open to the public.

http://www.averycoonley.org/event/id/864931/Linda-Silverman-Parent-Presentation.htm