SENG, a national organization dedicated to supporting the emotional needs of the gifted, offers monthly web seminars on topics of interest to parents and educators of highly capable children. The April Webinar is titled: Navigating the Quest for Help: Understanding Your Gifted Child’s Puzzling Behavior. The featured presenter is Dr. Steven Curtis, a Bainbridge Island based child psychologist. From the SENG website:
Parents of gifted children often struggle to understand how to best need their son or daughter’s needs. When a gifted child has some type of puzzling behavioral, social, or learning challenge, this struggle can intensify which can result in numerous visits with professionals and people in the know. This “quest for help” can be a very frustrating and exhausting experience. In this webinar, Dr. Curtis will begin with a description of the pathway of the “quest for help” that so many parents of gifted children take. This will be followed with a presentation on the common characteristics of gifted children, how gifted children are identified, common controversies and myths, and how gifted children are often misunderstood and mislabeled as having something else. Parents will then learn about possible educational options and ways to create/implement a strength-based strategy of success. The goal of this webinar is to help parents better understand the needs of their child, know how and when to intervene, have a better understanding on who to turn for help, and feel more empowered to help their gifted child find success. By participating in this webinar, parents and caregivers will find that the quest for help is much less costly and more effective in the long run.
ABC is hosting a special group night in the library at Stewart Elementary to participate in the webinar. The webinar will begin at 7:00pm on April 15th. To register for the ABC viewing of the webinar, and receive a free download of the webinar presentation, a $40 value, please send your name, child’s school, and number of adults attending to president@questabc.org. We will pay the registration fees for any parents joining us at Stewart.
For more information on the webinar, or to register to participate from home, please visit the SENG website at www.sengifted.org.
Before the webinar, at 6:30pm, families from Stewart, Meeker, and Karshner are invited to meet Anne Hoban, Principal of Stewart Elementary. The QUEST Regional classrooms that have been hosted at Meeker are moving to Stewart beginning next year, and many parents have expressed an interest in being able to meet Mrs. Hoban. She has welcomed us into her school and is excited to work with us to support our QUEST students.
