Losing Our Minds: Too Many Gifted Children Left Behind

by Deborah Ruf

Overview

Losing Our Minds: Too Many Gifted Children Left Behind (2024) is a detailed follow-up on 5 Levels of Gifted: School Issues and Educational Options (2009). It is the first in a three-part series, based on The 5 Levels of Gifted Children Grown Up: What They Tell Us (2023), which centered on the experiences and insights gained from a 20-year longitudinal study of client families. The author continues to revisit the grown-up gifted children of the initial study, offering unique, first person reports on how their lives and experiences have evolved over the two decades following the initial study.

Re-edited and updated, each chapter now also contains Questions for Discussion, allowing readers to reflect on the insights gained.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9798988323754
Publisher:	5 LoG Press
Publication date:	10/22/2024
Series:	The 5 Levels of Gifted 20 Year Study Results , #1
Pages:	320
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.67(d)

About the Author

Deborah L. Ruf earned a Ph.D. at the University of Minnesota in the Psychological Foundations of Education. Her focus was Tests & Measurement with a minor in Learning & Cognition. She was a private consultant and specialist in gifted assessment, test interpretation, and guidance for the gifted for 30 years. Dr. Ruf addresses educational policy, particularly how to set up schools that meet not only academic but social and emotional needs of children through grouping and instruction with true peers.
The National Gifted Children Program Coordinator for American Mensa from 2003 to 2008, she was awarded the Mensa Foundation’s Intellectual Benefits award in 2007 for her professional work in the field of intelligence. A parent, classroom teacher, and administrator in elementary through graduate education, she writes about school issues, social, and emotional adjustment of gifted children and adults.
For more than 40 years, Dr. Ruf has served as a keynote speaker, workshop, and conference presenter, and written chapters for 5 textbooks, more than 12 peer-reviewed journal articles, and 100 plus articles and handouts for newsletters, magazines, and websites.