Kate Simkowiak

PhD

April 2, 7-9pm: Uniquely Gifted, a FREE presentation brought to you by the HiCap Advisory Board

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Uniquely Gifted

April 2, 7-9pm

Administration Building, Board Room
3330 Monte Villa Pkwy, Bothell, WA
(Just walk straight past the stairs as you enter the lobby – you can’t miss it.)
A FREE presentation brought to you by the Northshore HiCap Advisory Board

Presented by:
Sandra Malone-Long, PhD
(Lake Washington Quest program school psychologist)

Who should go?
Parents of highly capable or “gifted” children,
especially if that child has some sort of unique challenge
such as perfectionism, anxiety, intense emotions, a visual-spatial learning style, or a disability of any sort.
(Note that these are VERY common in gifted kids, so this talk would apply to pretty much everyone)

Description:
In this presentation you will learn characteristics of gifted learners with unique learning needs and styles.
Parents will learn the level of interventions possible in the school and home setting.
We will focus on the need for team collaboration and targeted interventions.
Noted is the importance of the “home and school environment.”
Most important is for students, educational staff, and parents to be able to identify the “markers of success.”

SENG Webinar Event, Dec. 20th – Talking with Teens

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Presented by Jean Peterson

When adults are serious about attending to social and emotional needs of gifted kids, their own self-awareness and skills can help them avoid inadvertently squelching, patronizing, judging, viewing them narrowly, or even being unhelpfully “in awe.” Paying attention to their own biases can also help adults avoid inhibiting kids’ willingness to engage and show appropriate vulnerability.

Learn how to engage gifted adolescents so that conversation is meaningful and satisfying to both teens and adults, is focused on more than just performance or non-performance, is “real,” builds mutual trust, and is “generative.” Parents, relatives, teachers, coaches, directors, and other invested adults can all benefit from stepping back and, if needed, purposefully altering patterns of interaction in the interest of supporting them effectively.