The International Gifted Consortium (IGC) is a transformational group of leaders from across the globe, who possess an empathetic understanding of giftedness in its most acute, highly developed form. The International Gifted Consortium professionals serve the unique development of this often-misunderstood population. Together, we educate the world on the unique behaviors and development of the highly-profoundly gifted population to aid understanding, identification, and support of natural human development and potential.
Vision
We envision highly-profoundly gifted children
nurtured with fitting educational and developmental opportunities
that allows each to positively grow and develop; to flourish.
Mission
To collaboratively understand, identify, and support
the unique social, emotional, physical, cognitive, and altruistic
development of giftedness
through the lens of the highly-profoundly gifted.
Initiatives
Open-Access Research | Education-Outreach | Advocacy | Opportunities
Open-Access Research
We collaborate with IGC Contributors, scholars, and universities across the globe.
We examine the typical behaviors, development (social, emotional, physical, cognitive, and altruistic-moral), developmental milestones, life experiences, and developmental potential of highly-profoundly gifted children and adolescents.
We consider the relationship of advanced and asynchronous development and developmental potential using Dabrowski’s human development theory.
We disseminate research Prevalence of Emotional, Intellectual, Imaginational, Psychomotor, and Sensual Overexcitabilities in Highly and Profoundly Gifted Children and Adolescence: A Mixed-Methods Study of Development and Developmental Potential.
Education-Outreach
The International Gifted Consortium (IGC), Research Center for Highly-Profoundly Gifted educates parents, teachers, administrators, counselors, psychologists, and pediatricians on research-based behaviors, development, and developmental potential.
We present research findings and implications.
We provide research-based training and professional development workshops to all stakeholders: teachers, administrators, psychologists, pediatricians, and parents.
To effectively reach stakeholders across the globe, we host the IGC Podcast, Room With a View.
Advocacy
The IGC advocates for appropriate developmental and educational programs based on research.
We support parents through IGC Ambassadors.
We build community through IGC Cohorts.
Opportunities
Currently, The International Gifted Consortium is developing research-based educational programs that support development, developmental potential, and well-being.
Rationale
Giftedness needs to be better understood. It is a state of being with identifiable characteristics driven by intense sensitivities, keen awareness, and innate understandings. Giftedness is commonly misconceived as academic intelligence alone. As a result, many highly-profoundly gifted children are not being properly identified and therefore, not served. In fact, many gifted children are being misidentified, leaving their social-emotional, cognitive, physical, and altruistic-moral development and well-being unattended and at high risk.
