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.
It Can Be Highly Problematic First, a reminder about reading my blog posts: The Gifted Through the Lifespan Substack is designed to acknowledge just that: giftedness shows up when we are born
Why don’t all gifted children get rich or turn into emotionally healthy, high achieving adults? That was the question I had that motivated me not only to study giftedness but
Five more examples of participants during their school years in the longitudinal study Several Level Four and Five youngsters who lived in large metropolitan areas were able to attend the
Both gifted child and parent personalities matter hugely for how they see the school years. If the parents’ expectations fit those of their child, things go a lot better no
After 6th grade, things got more interesting for this gifted girl! In a previous post, I talked about my early school years the post called How Author Background Affects What They
A Candid Look at My Life, Lessons, and Where My Ideas Come From The picture below is of me when I was five years old. If you like old (vintage,
Thoughts shared by highly intelligent Baby Boomers when they were in their 40s and 50s during the 1990s My website and blog posts cover age ranges from birth to death.
As I step back from the digital highway to focus more on writing, you won’t see regular updates here. However, I do want to leave you with a clear path
In this post, I share a tremendous resource, Colleen Kessler, for those of you who want to know more about giftedness…. access to her podcasts at the end of the
Introduction to Level Two Longitudinal Study Results for 12 Highly Gifted Youngsters I worked directly with most of the families… and individuals in this study. I administered and interpreted intelligence
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