Gifted Children and Adolescents Through the Lens of Neuropsychology

Hanna David received her PhD from Ludwig Maximilians Universität, München and was a college lecturer in Psychology and Literature. Her undergraduate studies included mathematics, physics, and Hebrew literature. She is currently a counselor for gifted students and their families; lecturer in national and international conferences of psychology, education and giftedness, and an expert evaluator for the European Commission. David has published 18 books and 200+ research works. She is also a licensed Pilates instructor.Eva Gyarmathy focused her PhD thesis written in 1996 on talent associated with specific learning difficulties. As researcher, university teacher and psychotherapist her activity directs toward the care of the profoundly gifted and multiple-exceptional talents. She is a consultant to schools that serve gifted children and adolescents who could not be integrated into mainstream schools. She founded the Atypical Development Methodology Centre,the Adolescent/Adult Dyslexia Centre and the Special Need Talent Support Council.

• Foreword.- 1. Supporting and encouraging the versatile gifted child or adolescent; David.- 2. "Keeping the light on" – rather than turning it off for gifted children with overexcitabilities"; David.- 3. Treating the profoundly gifted; Gyarmathy.- 4. Neurodiversity and supporting autistic-gifted child and adolescent; Gyarmathy.- 5. Understanding gifted children with executive dysfunction and helping them; Gyarmathy.- 6. Counselling, treating, and helping gifted children with specific learning difficulties; Gyarmathy.- 7. Teaching and instructing the bi- or tree-lingual gifted student; David.- 8. Understanding and supporting the homosexual and trans-sexual gifted adolescent; David.