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Psychologists familiar with Testing the Gifted and Exceptionally Gifted
Click here for the list without reading
all the caveats...
The question is often asked, Who should I get to test my gifted
child? My highly gifted child? What psychologist is in my
area, who is familiar with the ceilings on the commonly administered individual
IQ tests like the Wechsler (WPPSI-III or WISC-IV) and Stanford-Binet (SB-5)?
This list includes a few people across the country and the world, who
understand the moderately, highly, exceptionally, and profoundly gifted;
psychologists who can give us the information we so desperately seek about our
children, their abilities, their weaknesses; and a few of whom still offer the SB L-M
as a supplemental
measure for more information on the child's levels of verbal ability, after a modern individual IQ test.
This list is the
beginning of an answer, but comes with many caveats. First and
foremost, psychologists are listed here by unsolicited parent or peer
recommendations.
Testers cannot 'self-recommend' to get on this list. Presence on
this list does not confirm a specific professional is the 'right' tester
for your gifted child. Contact the prospective tester, and speak to
her/him in advance. Find out what tests s/he offers, what feedback s/he
provides. Confirm that the tester 'feels right' for your family and your
child, has experience with gifted children, particularly those of your child's
age. Confirm her/his experience with various levels of giftedness, no
matter how moderately gifted you suspect your child is - many of us have had
huge shocks after professional testing - and experience with twice exceptional
gifted children. Discuss any learning differences or suspicions that you
have, in advance; some testers are not comfortable or experienced with twice
exceptional children. Read the tester's published writings, and visit
their website, if applicable. Ask about the tester's fees, what costs you will
incur, optional costs you may incur, and payment options. Fees for
administering tests, for scoring those tests, and for preparing the assessment report, can vary
dramatically even within one geographic area. A tester should be able to
explain potential fees before any money is paid, including any optional
costs due to additional assessment that become necessary as testing reveals
additional questions.
Know what you want
and/or need from the testing: recommendations, what specific tests your school
or other organization will and won't accept, and make sure the tester knows in
advance, and isn't planning to use the 'wrong' tests. Make sure that (if
you don't already have them) you are getting at least an individual IQ test:
generally the Wechsler (WPPSI for under age 6-0 only - never older, or WISC for
kids age 6-0 to under 16-0) or Stanford-Binet 5 (SB-5), and an individual
achievement test. If the child is late-elementary age or grade or older,
confirm that the WJ-III achievement test will be used, rather than the Wechsler
(WIAT), Peabody (PIAT), Kaufman (K-TEA), or other lower-ceiling achievement test
will be used. Learn what will, and will not, be included in the final
report. Will you get a slimmed down report for your schools, if you need
it?
For a collection of other professionals recommended for their work with the
gifted, including audiologists, developmental optometrists, counselors, lawyers,
advocates, and more, visit Professionals
familiar with the gifted.
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Australia
-
- Gifted Education
Research, Resource and Information Centre (GERRIC), Dr. Miraca
Gross, Director, University of New South Wales, Sydney
- e-mail: gerric@unsw.edu.au,
phone: (02) 9385 1972, (02) 9385 1974 and (02) 9385 1979
- CHIP Foundation (Children of High Intellectual Potential), Dr.
Brian Start,
Melbourne, Victoria
- phone: (03) 9889 4800
- Lesley
Sword, Canterbury, Victoria
- phone: (03) 9836 0377 or (03) 9836 5459
- Helen
Dudeney, Westmead, New South Wales
Also visit
Gifted Resources, and
click on Service Locator, then Psychologists and Educational Consultants,
for more Australian resources... -
Canada
-
- Susan Jackson, The Daimon Institute for the Highly Gifted, White Rock, British Columbia
-
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England
-
- Randy Lee Comfort, Bristol
-
- Joan Freeman, London
- phone: (44) 171 486 2604
-
Netherlands
-
- Edu
Brant, Utrecht
- phone: (011) 31 20 673 3839
-
United States
- Arizona
-
- Paul Beljan, PsyD, ABPdN,
pediatric neuropsychologist, Beljan Psychological Services
- 8585 E. Bell Rd., Ste. 100A, Scottsdale, AZ 85260, phone: office
602-957-7600, fax 602-289-5751, e-mail:
paul@paulbeljan.com
- Michael Gerner, Ph.D., P.C. Flagstaff, President, Consulting
Psychologists
- specializes in G&T and twice exceptional children and adults; 3 N.
Leroux Street, Suite 207, Flagstaff, AZ 86001, phone office/fax: (928)
214-0872, mobile: (928) 699-9565, e-mail:
mgernerpsy@aol.com
- California
- Barbara
Klein,
Ph.D., Los Angeles
- phone: (310) 209-0515. e-mail:
barbarak360@aol.com
- Carolyn Light,
Ph.D., R.N., San Diego
- phone: (619) 981-9366. e-mail:
carolynlight@san.rr.com
- Esther
Sinclair,
Ph.D., UCLA
- also experience with twice exceptional children; phone:
(310) 825-0075. e-mail:
esinclair@mednet
- Colorado
-
- Gifted Development Center
Denver
Linda Silverman, Director, Betty Maxwell, Associate Director - phone: Denver (303) 837-8378 or toll free 888-GIFTED1,
e-mail gifted@gifteddevelopment.com
- Florida
-
- Patricia Gatto-Walden,
Ph.D. Fernandina Beach
- 2845 S. Fletcher Avenue; Fernandina Beach, Florida 32034, phone: (904)
491-6964, email:
pgwalden@msn.com Counseling children, adolescents and adults (no
testing)
- Deborah Harris Gainesville
- e-mail
drharris32606@yahoo.com, phone: (352) 376-3531
- Ken Richter, Ph.D., NCSP., CABA Valrico
- e-mail
richter239@msn.com or
kenrichter@mac.com, phone: (813) 323-4050 or (813) 681-7591
- Georgia
-
- Spomenka
Newman Ph.D., Licensed Psychologist,
Psychological Services for
Children, Atlanta
-
e-mail spomenka@mindspring.com
- Illinois
-
- Elizabeth Mika Chicago area
- e-mail elamika@yahoo.com,
phone: (847) 543-9550
- Indiana
-
- School
Psychology Clinic Muncie
-
Teachers College at Ball State University
- Iowa
-
- Rachel
Heiss, Ph.D. Des Moines
- 1922 Ingersoll Ave., Des Moines 50309, e-mail
rheissphd@hotmail.com, phone: (515)
471-5070
-
Assessment
and Counseling Clinic Belin-Blank Center Iowa City
-
University of Iowa, phone: (319) 335-6148
- Kentucky
-
- Edward R. Amend, Psy.D,
Amend Psychological Services,
Lexington
- phone: (859) 269-6465, e-mail
dramend@amendpsych.com
 Suzanne
M. James, Psy.D, Erlanger (Cincinnati)- 495 Erlanger Road, Suite
204, Erlanger, KY 41018, 859-342-6444, e-mail
sm.james@hotmail.com
- Vicki Ragsdell, Ph.D,
Louisville
- 13117 Eastpoint Park Blvd, Louisville, phone: 502-245-3252, e-mail
vickiragsdell@gmail.com
- Maryland
-
- CTY Diagnostic and
Counseling Center
- Johns Hopkins University
- Massachusetts
-
Liana
Peña Morgens,
Ph.D. Waltham
- Dr. Morgens specializes in neuropsychological evaluations for
individuals where their neuro-cognitive profile may be affecting other
areas of development or functioning such as learning, social, emotional
and/or adaptive; evaluations for Spanish speakers are available; 298
Crescent Street, phone: (781) 899-1160
Mary Coakley-Welch,
Ph.D. Lexington
- 781-368-9020
- Michigan
- Adam Plotnick Farmington Hills
- specializes in the evaluation of gifted with ADHD and learning
disabilities, phone (248) 471-0071
- University
of Michigan University Center for Child and Family (UCCF), Ann Arbor
- 530 Church Street, Suite 1465, Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1043, phone: (734)
764-9466
- Minnesota
-
- Stuart Dansinger,
Licensed Psychologist, Minneapolis
- 110 Bank St. SE, Suite 1601,
Minneapolis, MN 55414, phone (612) 378-9444. e-mail:
sdansinger@minneapolis-psychologist.com
- Karen Rogers
- University of St. Thomas, e-mail KBROGERS@stthomas.edu
- Deborah L. Ruf, Ph.D.,
Educational Psychologist, Golden Valley
- e-mail
educationoptions@cs.com,
phone: (763) 521-4565
- Missouri
-
- Gery Gremmelsbacher, NCSP
- office: (314) 842-9109, e-mail
geryg@sbcglobal.net
- New Hampshire
-
- Sandra-Leigh Sprecker Marlow
- e-mail sandraleigh@email.com;
phone: (603) 863-7292
- New Jersey
-
- Barbara Louis New Brunswick
- Located at the Gifted Child Clinic in the Robert Wood Johnson Medical School,
e-mail louisba@umdnj.edu,
phone: (732) 235-7700
- New York
-
- Julia Osborn
- Clinton St., 1K, Brooklyn, NY 11202, phone and fax: (718) 522-4824
- Patricia
Schuler Creative Insights
- 1 University Pl # 5, Rensselaer, NY
12144, phone: (518) 257-2018
- Pennsylvania
- California
University of Pennsylvania School Psychology Clinic, supervised by
Elizabeth Mason, Ph.D., N.C.S.P.
- (724) 938-4403 or (724) 938-4100
- Dominic
DeLuigi, Psychologist
- Beaver, phone (724) 728-6670
- Margaret
J. Kay, Ed.D. Psychologist
- 2818 Lititz Pike, Lancaster, phone: (717) 569-6223, e-mail:
MJK@MargaretKay.com
- Arthur F. Moffa II, MA,
Nationally Certified School Psychologist, Licensed Psychologist
- 280 North Providence Road, Post Office Box 2067, Media, phone: (610) 566-4050
- Center for the Gifted
C. Suzanne Schneider, Philadelphia
- e-mail
suzanne.schneider6@verizon.net, phone: (215) 849-5077
- Rhode Island
-
- Gifted Resource Center of New England
Deirdre V. Lovecky, Providence
- e-mail GRCNE02940@aol.com,
phone: (401) 421-3426
- Tennessee
- Patti van Eys Nashville
- e-mail: patti.vaneys@vanderbilt.edu, social/emotional counseling of highly gifted
- Joseph McLaughlin Brentwood, Tennessee
- phone: (615) 370-4977
- Texas
-
- Karen
Langdon, M. Ed., a.b.d. in Clinical Psychology Austin
- e-mail
ksl@austin.rr.com, phone: (512)
203-4540
- Beth
Lusby, Ph.D. Licensed Psychologist,
Cornerstone Assessment & Guidance Center, LP Colleyville
- e-mail
DrBeth@cagclp.com, phone: (817)
428-9810
- Tandra Tyler-Wood
Denton
- e-mail wood@tac.coe.unt.edu,
phone: (940) 565-2959
- Vermont
-
- Trevor
J. Tebbs,
Ph.D. Ed. Psych. Bomoseen
-
POB 276, Bomoseen VT 05732, phone: (802) 273 3882, e-mail:
trevor@tebbspsychology.com
Educational consultant specializing in the social emotional and
educational needs of gifted individuals; registered psychotherapist
offering testing (WISC-IV, etc.) and counseling to the gifted population...
- Virginia
-
- Nadia
Webb, Psy.D., Clinical Neuropsychologist, Nadia Webb & Associates, LLC
-
312 South Main Street, Harrisonburg, VA 22801, phone: (540) 433-6886, fax: (540)
433-0248, e-mail: NadiaWebb@aol.com
- Washington
-
- Steve
Curtis, Ph.D., Child Clinical Psychologist,
Lifespan Psychological Services
Jane E.
Curtis, Ph.D., Clinical Psychologist,
Lifespan Psychological Services
- 11290 Sunrise Drive, NE, Bainbridge Island, WA 98110, phone:
(206) 780-7782
-
Fernette Eide M.D. and Brock Eide M.D. M.A., Neurolearning
- 6701 139th Place SW, Edmonds, WA 98026, phone:
(425) 742-2218, fax: (425) 742-8115, e-mail
feide@neurolearning.com
Interest in helping 'twice exceptional' individuals - gifted children with
strong learning differences, learning disabilities, and other disabilities
(including sensory integration, dysgraphia, pre-maturity)
- Robinson
Center for Young Scholars
- phone: (206) 543-4160
- Wisconsin
- Katherine Halley Baraboo and Madison
- e-mail
khalley@madison.k12.wi.us, phone: Baraboo (608) 356-9066
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May 09, 2008
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