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Linda F. Silverman, PhD (she/her/hers)

Director
Institute for the Study of Advanced Development
Westminster, Colorado, United States

Linda Kreger Silverman, Ph.D., is a licensed clinical and counseling psychologist. She directs the public, nonprofit Institute for the Study of Advanced Development, and its subsidiary, Gifted Development Center [www.gifteddevelopment.org], in Westminster, Colorado. In the last 45 years, she has studied more than 6,500 children who have been assessed at GDC, the largest data bank on this population. This research enabled the creation of extended norms on the WISC-IV and WISC-V, as well as the Expanded General Ability Index on the WISC-V. Her Ph.D. is in educational psychology and special education from the University of Southern California. For nine years, she served on the faculty of the University of Denver in counseling psychology and gifted education. She has been studying the psychology and education of the gifted since 1961 and has written over 500 articles, chapters and books, including Counseling the Gifted and Talented, Upside-Down Brilliance: The Visual-Spatial Learner, Advanced Development: A Collection of Works on Gifted Adults, and Giftedness 101 (translated into Swedish and Korean).

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