Five Levels Of Gifted

When Gifted People Walk That Humility Line—or Not

When Gifted People Walk That Humility Line—or Not

Most intellectually gifted adults don’t think of themselves as gifted. Smart enough maybe, but not so special as to be gifted. First of all, most intellectually gifted adults don’t think of themselves as gifted. Smart enough maybe, but not so special as to be gifted. After all, they were lucky, or worked hard, or didn’t […]

How Do Schools Take Care of Moderately Gifted Students?

Moderately gifted child sitting in a typical classroom setting representing Level One gifted school experience

The same as they take care of most students. Very little new happens before High School. In this post, you will start to see yourself, and even if you don’t know your IQ, you’ll start to be able to guess more accurately! If a child is clearly advanced, surely the school will recognize the child’s […]

The 5 Levels of Gifted Children Grown Up: What They Tell Us

by Deborah Ruf
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The 5 Levels of Gifted Children Grown Up is a detailed follow-up to Dr. Deborah Ruf’s previous book, 5 Levels of Gifted: School Issues and Educational Options. In this book, Dr. Ruf explores how background…. Read More

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Dr. Delisle “I’ve finally read through the “5 Levels” update…and it is a monumental work. The amount of detail and insight you provide is unlike anything I have seen published elsewhere, and the respect you show to your 64 subjects is evident throughout. I won’t lie: I didn’t read through every one of the excerpts in each of the chapters. Instead, I read through a variety of them and then headed straight to the Summary and Conclusions portion of each chapter. It was in each of those that your synthesis of your respondents’ responses came most to life for me. Too, the Afterword was a great way to tie together the many conclusions that you reached, as well as additional questions that remain….Read More