Date: May 14, 2013
Time: 4:30 p.m. Pacific [90 mins.]
Presenter: Terry Friedrichs, PhD, EdD
Gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender, and questioning (GLBTQ) youth experience much higher-than-average rates of verbal and physical harassment, parental rejection, and suicide. However, these students also have great potential for academic success, as seen by their disproportionately-high representation in programs for the gifted.
This session explains how parents, siblings, and teachers can build on these students’ potential and can diminish the effect of others’ harm.
REGISTRATION DETAILS
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ABOUT THE PRESENTER
Terry Friedrichs, PhD, EdD, has spent 35 years as a teacher, youth-group leader, and researcher for gifted GLBTQ youth in grades 7-12 and college, publishing 10 articles on these students’ social, emotional, and academic needs. He offered the first gifted GLBTQ sessions in the histories of NAGC, AERA, CEC, and AEGUS in the early 1990s, and since then has actively presented around the nation on meeting these youths’ home and school needs. He currently serves as funding coordinator of NAGC’s GLBTQ Special Interest Group.