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Saturday, January 23, 2016

"GIFTEDNESS: BEYOND IQ" PARENT SEMINAR

"GIFTEDNESS: BEYOND IQ" PARENT SEMINAR BY DR. SPOMENKA NEWMAN - THURSDAY, JANUARY 28 @ 6:30PM - FSA CAFETORIUM


The focus will be on unique developmental patterns in gifted 

children, particularly the effects of developmental asynchrony and emotional sensitivity on adjustment and performance. 

Current FSA Parents,

To RSVP for this wonderful parent seminar, please CLICK HERE. It is free of charge for FSA parents.


Not an FSA Parent,

If you are not a current FSA parent but wish to attend, please do the following:


2- Make a $20 payment here.


Please enter full name.

We have a limited space for not an FSA parents, first 75 will be accepted.

If you have any questions, please let me know at ksener@fultonscienceacademy.org


ABOUT DR. SPOMENKA NEWMAN 


Dr. Newman is a licensed psychologist providing high quality comprehensive services to children and adolescents ages four to college years. Dr. Newman specializes in gifted and creative children and adolescents.

She provides a wide range of services from psychological assessment and therapy, to work on specific school related issues. Dr. Newman’s background in educational and developmental psychology makes her uniquely qualified to counsel families on a wide variety of issues.

Dr. Newman two doctoral degrees from the University of Georgia, one in School Psychology and one in Gifted Education. Her Bachelor's degree in Psychology and Master's degree in School Psychology were earned from the University of Ljubljana in Slovenia. 

She studied under the guidance of giants in gifted education such as Bonnie Cramond, Paul Torrance, Robert Sternberg, Mary Frazier, and Joe Renzulli. 

In her thirty year long career in child psychology she has been a school psychologist, clinician, Postdoctoral Fellow with the National Research Center on the Gifted and Talented at Yale University, educational consultant, researcher, and university professor. Dr. Newman has lectured and published on gifted education, underachievement of gifted females, heightened sensitivities and overexcitabilities in gifted children, and early temperament and development of mental disorders in childhood. 

Dr. Newman is among a small number of psychologists around the world who specializes in gifted children. She is listed on Hoagies web site (www.hoagiesgifted.org ) and has successfully collaborated with Davidson Young Scholar Program (www.davidsongifted.orgIn her work with exceptional children Dr. Newman continues to innovate and explore new educational models that are specifically tailored to serve the needs of exceptional and twice-exceptional children.

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