Living with Giftedness -- Insights and Hindsights

Kathryn Brimblecombe-Fox

There are many highs and lows associated with living with gifted children. This presentation will examine the relationship between the home and the school. There will be insights into what drives parents to pursue alternatives within the system and outside of it. What are parents' anxieties and how can the system try to ease them or avoid their occurrence?

What are the utterances that make a parent's heart break? How does research into the needs of gifted children fuel a parent's drive to provide appropriate opportunities for their children? Love is a driving force and it is hoped that this presentation will reassure people that this is the case.

Kathryn is an artist and has painted a series of pictures about gifted children. She will be using slides of these works to give another dimension to the topic. Sometimes it is easier to say more with a painting than with words.

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