How Can YOU Be Part of The IGC Outcomes?
JOIN THE INTERNATIONAL GIFTED CONSORTIUM’S EFFORTS
1. Support Open–Access Research and Education–Outreach — Join an IGC Cohort.
2. Become an IGC Ambassador for your community.
3. Do you specialize in the highly–profoundly gifted population? Become an IGC Contributor.
4. Ask about IGC Education–Outreach and professional development workshops. We train parents, teachers, school/program administrators, counselors, psychologists, and pediatricians.
5. Sponsor an IGC Symposium — Bring even better understanding, identification, and support to your country or community.
Contact: Vanessa R. Wood, Psy.D.
vanessawood@giftedconsortium.org.
AT A GLANCE
IGC 2025 Outcomes & Education–Outreach 2026–2027
The International Gifted Consortium (IGC), Research Center for Highly–Profoundly Gifted is on a mission to collaboratively better understand, identify, and support giftedness and the distinctly unique social, emotional, physical, cognitive, and altruistic development of highly–profoundly gifted individuals.
With more than 100,000 stakeholders impacted, in over 71 countries, The IGC serves children, adolescents, young adults, individuals, families, teachers, school and program administrators, counselors, psychologists, and pediatricians.
Everyone needs to be included when it comes to inclusive understanding, identification, and support of the continuum of human development, potential, and the human experience.
New Research with Johns Hopkins University
Unpacking Intensities: An Exploratory Study of Parents’ Perspectives of Overexcitabilities in Highly to Profoundly GIfted Children
New Research — IGC Contributors
IGC Contributor, Keri M. Guilbault
Beyond the Norm: Navigating the Social-Emotional Terrain of Parenting Highly to Profoundly Gifted Children in the Early Years
Parents’ Insights Regarding the Social and Emotional Lives of Young Highly and Profoundly Gifted Children
IGC Contributor, Rebecca M. Johnson
Beyond the Norm: Navigating the Social-Emotional Terrain of Parenting Highly to Profoundly Gifted Children in the Early Years
The IGC International Research Study in Collaboration with The University of Antwerp Published in 2024
Prevalence of Emotional, Intellectual, Imaginational, Psychomotor, and Sensual Overexcitabilities in Highly and Profoundly Gifted Children and Adolescents: A Mixed-Methods Study of Development and Developmental Potential
The IGC Literature Review Published in 2020
How Can We Better Understand, Identify, and Support Highly Gifted and Profoundly Gifted Students? A Literature Review of the Psychological Development of Highly–Profoundly GIfted Individuals and Overexcitabilities
Coming Soon…
Access to Well-Being for Gifted and Highly–Profoundly Gifted Children and Adolescents: An International Literature Review Study
Education–Outreach 2026-2027
Arizona Gifted & Talented Week February 8-14, 2026 — Featuring Barnes & Noble and Highly–Profoundly Gifted: Universal Understandings and Holistic Approaches.
Belgium and Netherlands Gifted Week March 7-15, 2026 Featuring Highly–Profoundly Gifted: Universal Understandings and Holistic Approaches Q & A.
Gift-a-Palooza, April 24-25, 2026
Presenting Prevalence of Emotional, Intellectual, Imaginational, Psychomotor, and Sensual Overexcitabilities in Highly and Profoundly Gifted Children and Adolescents: A Mixed-Methods Study of Development and Developmental Potential AND a Parent’s Journey to Understanding Greater–Than–Typical Sensitivity, Intensity, and Awareness.
Presenting Prevalence of Emotional, Intellectual, Imaginational, Psychomotor, and Sensual Overexcitabilities in Highly and Profoundly Gifted Children and Adolescents: A Mixed-Methods Study of Development and Developmental Potential
AAEGT Australia Gifted Week Conference May 22, 2026
European Council for High Ability (ECHA) Conference, University of Dublin, Ireland August 12-15, 2026.
Highly–Profoundly Gifted Panel Symposium
Highly–Profoundly Gifted Panel SymposiumHighly and Profoundly Gifted Development, Educational Needs, and Well-Being: The Latest Research
Vanessa R. Wood, International Gifted Consortium, Research Center Highly–Profoundly Gifted
Keri M. Guilbault, Johns Hopkins University
Rebecca Johnson, Purdue University
Shelagh Gallagher, College of William & Mary
Jessica Potts, Davidson Academy Online
3-Ways to Be Part of The IGC Outcomes
1. Join a Cohort
2. Sponsor a Symposium
3. Make a Donation
