While the importance of social and emotional development of gifted youth is being increasingly recognized, it is still sometimes overlooked in the school setting.  Gifted learners should be provided with affective curriculum, differentiated guidance, and counseling services as needed to address their specialized needs that arise from their asynchronous development, over-excitabilities, perfectionism, and other characteristics associated with growing up gifted.  Dr. Amend will revisit the research on the social and emotional development of gifted youth and explore the benefits and barriers to implementation of appropriate services.  Discussion will focus on ways to improve affective services and strategies for attending to the social and emotional development of gifted individuals.

EILA credit will be available.

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The Special Needs Summit is an event for parents, caregivers, professionals, staff, and students who have an interest in the special needs community. Workshops will be offered on various topics relating to special needs.  The keynote speaker is Dwayne Ballen, TV journalist and author of Journey With Julian.

Open free to the public and showcasing the Mandela Quilt Exhibit