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Linda Kreger Silverman, American Psychologist. Avocations: dance, music appreciation, swimming, baking, family. F C. Graduate fellow University of Southern California, 1969-1972, research fellow U. Colorado, 1973, U. Denver, 1980; Bureau Education Handicapped grantee, 1980; recipient William Elgin Wickenden award for outstanding paper in engineering education, 1989.

Background

Silverman, Linda Kreger was born on January 28, 1941 in Buffalo. Daughter of Philip and Bernice (Gerstman) Kreger.

Education

Bachelor of Science in Elementary Education, State University of New York, Buffalo, 1961; postgraduate in counseling, California State University, Northridge, 1963-1969; Master of Science in Special Education, University of Southern California, 1971; Doctor of Philosophy in Ednl. Psychology, University of Southern California, 1972.

Career

Elementary teacher, Amherst (New York) and Los Angeles city schools, 1961-1970; professional expert G/T, Los Angeles City Schools, 1971-1972; co-director special education, U. Colorado, Boulder, 1972-1973; in-service coordinator, N.W. Colorado and S.W. Metro BOCS, 1972-1973; consultant-writer, Adams County Head Start, Brighton, Colorado, 1975-1976; coordinator carly childhood education, Colorado Women's College, Denver, 1977-1986; assistant professor, U. Denver, 1977-1986; director, Gifted Development Center, Denver, since 1979; director, Institute for Study of Advanced Development, Denver, since 1986. Member of advisory board Children on High Potential Foundation, Melbourne, Australia, Domestic Violence Institute, Denver, Association for Development of Creativity andTalent, Barcelona, Spain, Hollingworth Center for Highly Gifted Children Center, Auburn, Maine, Roeper Review, Bloomfield Hills, Michigan.

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    Linda Kreger Silverman, Ph.D., is a licensed clinical and counseling psychologist. She directs the Institute for the Study of Advanced Development, and its subsidiary, the Gifted Development Center (GDC) in Denver, Colorado, which has assessed over 6,500 children in the last 40 years. This is the largest data base on the gifted population. She and her colleagues at GDC have developed 40 instruments. For nine years she served on the faculty of the University of Denver (DU), in Counseling Psychology and Gifted Education. She developed a course on Assessment of the Gifted at DU, which was also a short course taught abroad. She has been studying the assessment, psychology and education of the gifted since 1961 and has written over 300 articles, chapters and books, including the textbook, Counseling the Gifted and Talented, adopted at 50 colleges. Her latest book, Giftedness 101 (Springer, 2013), contains a chapter on assessment. It has been translated into Korean and Swedish.

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    • Beyond Their Years

    For fifty years psychologist Linda Kreger Silverman has been an outspoken advocate for the gifted, who she feels have been neglected in schools and misunderstood in society. Whether a child shows extraordinary intellectual gifts or struggles with a learning disability, or both, Silverman says teachers should be responsive to each student’s individual nature and pay attention to both educational and psychological needs.

    While still in high school, Silverman became interested in children who were ahead of their peers in intellectual development. As a young teacher she created scholarship-preparation courses and math clubs for the gifted and spoke frequently at conferences. In 1979 Silverman founded the Gifted Development Center (GDC), which is now a subsidiary of the Institute for the Study of Advanced Development. (She directs both organizations.) Based in Denver, Colorado, the GDC is the largest organization of its kind, with extensive data on more than six thousand children and their families (gifteddevelopment.com).

    Giftedness isn’t a popular field of study, and Silverman hasn’t always had a smooth career path. At times she has struggled financially, and she’s clashed with entrenched university bureaucracies, the IQ-testing industry, and the not-so-subtle sexism in the predominantly male world of science. Her approach, which involves not just testing but also getting to know children, is controversial to some. “I’m very child-centered,” she says. “I relate to them person to person, soul to soul, not adult to child.” Although she does administer standardized IQ tests, she also admires Annemarie Roeper, who developed Qualitative Assessment, a method of determining giftedness that doesn’t involve a written test or a structured interview. Roeper said that “the only instrument complex enough to understand a human being is another human being.”

    Silverman received her undergraduate degree in elementary education from SUNY College of Educa

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