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RIAGE
is pleased to present
Dr. Deirdre Lovecky, Ph.D.
Director
of the Gifted Resource Center of New England
as our Special Guest Speaker on
April
30, 2002.
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Dr. Lovecky's talk
"The Twice Exceptional Gifted Child"
will be about gifted children
who have learning disabilities,
ADHD, Asperger's Syndrome, or other
behavioral or mental health disorders.
(Admission is free, and refreshments will
follow.)
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An excerpt from the article:
"There are a number
of reasons for considering gifted children with AD/HD.
The dual exceptionality of being both gifted, and AD/HD,
often means that such children are not recognized as
having either exceptionality, and thus, their needs
for an appropriate education are not met. AD/HD, in
this paper, refers to the mixed type, those children
with symptoms of both inattention, and hyperactivity.
AD/HD is considered to be a deficit in ability to inhibit
responding with consequent deficits in self regulation
and self monitoring of behavior. The underlying deficit
in AD/HD is hypothesized to be biological, and based
on differences in neurotransmitter regulation of dopamine.
Most affected are the areas of the brain that deal with
the executive functions, that is the ability to regulate,
modulate, produce on demand, organize, and sustain focus.
" (Lovecky, 1999). To read more click
here.
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The
Gifted Resource Center of New England, located in Providence,
RI, serves the needs of gifted children, adolescents and their
families. Clinical psychological and educational services
are offered in assessment, psychotherapy, curriculum design,
school consultation and teacher in-service. Also, articles,
resource lists, and suggested readings are offered.
"I have
been a clinical psychologist for more than 20 years, and specialize
currently in working with gifted children. My interests are
in helping to identify gifted children and to design meaningful
school programs and outside enrichment activities for them
to pursue. I am especially interested in these children's
needs for increased complex stimulation and abstraction. Also,
the highly and exceptionally gifted are of particular interest
as I have assessed more than 70 children over IQ 160. I am
interested in the needs of gifted children who are also learning
disabled or AD/HD, have Asperger's Syndrome or other behavioral
or mental health disorders, and I try to work with schools
to provide for the unusual combinations of strengths and weaknesses
found in these children." Dr. Lovecky
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Location:
Barrington Senior Center
281 County Road, Barrington, RI
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