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.
What every parent and teacher of gifted children should know. Photo by CDC on Unsplash This advice is relevant for teachers at any grade level. It’s original title was The Do’s and
It’s also called the EQ and IQ Connection Because Some People Navigate Those Waters More easily Than Others. Many highly intelligent people of all ages struggle to feel they fit
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
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
Level Two children are highly gifted and the most common in gifted programs. Level Two children and their parents also experienced difficulties finding a good school fit. Level Two children
People collapse “grade getting” behaviors or “going to college” with intelligence. Don’t! First, when a child is clearly capable and smart — possibly gifted — it is common for both
Level Three (Highly to Exceptionally Gifted) children and their parents generally had considerable difficulty finding a good school fit. The school options families have available to them play a role
How does early or late talking relate to how smart a child is? Two families were visiting their great aunt and uncle and chatting with each other as their first-borns,
No. Not generally. Level Four children and their parents in my first book (5 Levels of Gifted: School Issues and Educational Options, 2009) generally had considerable difficulty finding a good school
Different in Many Ways Scatterplots to illustrate some of the ways! Early in my consulting career with gifted families, my natural inclination to explore, theorize, and try to figure things
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
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