Understanding Intelligence
What is Giftedness?
Do you ever wonder if you’d recognize it? This new book will help readers more fully understand what giftedness is and isn’t. I’m pleased to present a new book that
October 8, 2024
Author
Deborah Ruf, PhD
Deborah L. Ruf, Ph.D., is a specialist in intelligence assessment and individualized interpretations and guidance for both gifted children and adults. Her research, writing, and speaking focuses on school and educational issues as well as related social and emotional adjustments for gifted children particularly those at the highest levels of giftedness.
Bright Adults & Life Stories
Inner Growth in Gifted Adults: How to Understand Viewpoints Based on Dąbrowski Levels
In this post we look at how the way your parents were raised and how they raised you might still be affecting you, your parenting, and your relationships. Dąbrowski’s theory
September 24, 2024
Bright Adults & Life Stories
After 6th Grade, Things Got More Interesting!
In a previous post, I talked about my early school years the post called How Author Background Affects What They Write. Here I am the summer before I became an 8th grader. About
September 17, 2024
Gifted Education
A Heart-Felt Thank You!
Thanks for being a crucial part of our Substack journey, Crystal! Support like yours is the absolute backbone of my work! Paid subscribers allow me to dive deeper, dedicate more
September 10, 2024
Bright Adults & Life Stories
About My Very Big Book “The 5 Levels of Gifted Children Grown Up”
In mid-November 2023, shortly after I released my 18 year longitudinal follow-up study in the very big book (3 pounds), The 5 Levels of Gifted Children Grown Up: What They Tell
September 3, 2024
What Else Makes IQ Scores Hard to Count On?
What else makes IQ scores hard to count on? Different ability tests have different scales or ranges of scores. The ones you can take free online generally have a higher
August 27, 2024
What Exactly Is the Point of My Life?
“What exactly is the point of my life?” Do you wonder? The viewpoints of those who raised you, as well as the zeitgeist of the time you were born and
August 20, 2024
Parenting & Raising Bright Kids
What Are Parenting Styles? Part 2 of 2
In the first post about parenting styles, I framed up a series of concepts about the interactions between gifted children and their parents. Then we launched into the authoritarian style
August 13, 2024
Why Do We Continue to Have Same-Aged Classrooms?
Why do we continue to have same-aged classrooms? hashtag#giftededucation For gifted children, being grouped day in and day out with your same-aged peers — your age-mates — can leave you
August 6, 2024
Development in Gifted Children: Different in Many Ways
In 1999 I developed an intake form called “Developmental Milestones.” Parents who came to my new consultancy gave me all the information I thought I might need to figure them
July 23, 2024