Parent Education Seminars

While your child is participating in our program we would like to provide parents with some opportunities to meet informally to discuss a variety of issues related to parenting and educating gifted children.  All are welcome - please invite your family members, friends, and educators to attend.

Please email summerwonders@austingifted.org or call the office at 512-206-4070 to RSVP.

Seminar I:  Nathan Levy

Please join us on Wednesday, June 23rd, 2010 for a seminar given by internationally-known Nathan Levy.  Mr. Levy, author of Stories with Holes, will share numerous proven ways to reach gifted learners in challenging ways.  The objective is to have participants leave with a variety of new strategies and specific ideas to help children become better creative and critical thinkers.  A variety of successful teaching/parenting techniques will be shared – as well as numerous reading, writing and thinking activities.  Bring your thinking caps and funny bones to this dynamic presentation. 

•The seminar will run from 9:15 AM to 11:30 AM. 

•$30 per person or $45 per couple. 

•We will provide childcare for an additional $10. 

The room location will be announced based on number of attendees. 

Seminar II:  The Social and Emotional Issues of Gifted Children

Please join us on Tuesday, July 13th, 2010 for a seminar given by Summer Wonders Executive Director Karen Langdon on the topic of Social and Emotional Issues of Gifted Children. Why does my child never seem to run out of energy? Why is she so intense? Why is he sensitive to so many things? As early as the 1930’s, a Polish psychiatrist and psychologist, Kazimierz Dabrowski, proposed theories that seek to explain a great deal about the differences between intellectually gifted and “average” individuals. Come hear about his description of psychomotor, sensual, imaginational, intellectual and emotional “overexcitabilities” and his “Theory of Positive Disintegration.” This seminar will provide a unifying view of giftedness that looks at the whole individual. In this interactive session, we will explore the social and emotional characteristics of gifted children and consider strategies and techniques for helping them cope with their uniquenesses.

•The seminar will run from 9:15 AM to 11:30 AM. 

•$30 per person or $45 per couple. 

•We will provide childcare for an additional $10. 

The room location will be announced based on number of attendees. 

Free: Brown Bag Lunch

Join us Wednesday, July 21st for a Brown Bag Lunch.  We’ll be discussing topics on parenting gifted children in an informal atmosphere.  Bring your lunch and your questions!

•The lunch will run from Noon to 1:00 PM. 

•There is no charge 

•We will provide childcare for an additional $7. 

The room location will be announced based on number of attendees. 

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