The International Gifted Consortium (IGC), Reseach Center for Highly–Profoundly Gifted
the leading global organization supporting the educational and developmental needs of highly gifted and profoundly gifted children, adolescents, and individuals since 2015. Headquartered in Arizona, The International Gifted Consortium (IGC), Research Center for Highly–Profoundly Gifted is a transformational group of leaders, leading researchers, and IGC contributors from across the globe, who possess an experienced understanding of the continuum of gifted, gifted education, and gifted development. We serve the unique development of this often misunderstood gifted population. Together, we educate teachers, administrators, counselors, psychologists, pediatricans, and parents on the lived experiences and research-based understandings —to aid gifted identification, gifted education, and to support natural human development, potential, and well-being.
We are international experts in gifted education, development, and psychology — researching, educating, identifying, counseling, and supporting giftedness, and highly gifted and profoundly gifted individuals.
Founding Leader — — Vanessa R. Wood, Psy.D. Clinical Psychology M.A. Gifted Education
Vision
We envision highly gifted and profoundly gifted children
nurtured with fitting educational and developmental opportunities
that allows each to positively grow and develop; to flourish.
Global Mission
To collaboratively understand, identify, and support
the unique social, emotional, physical, cognitive, and altruistic-moral
development of giftedness
through the eyes of the highly–profoundly gifted.
Initiatives
Open-Access Research | Education-Outreach and Professional Development | Advocacy | Research-Based Programs
Open-Access Research
The International Gifted Consortium (IGC), Research Center for Highly–Profoundly Gifted collaborates with IGC Contributors, scholars, universities, and leading institutions across the globe including Johns Hopkins University and University of Antwerp.
We examine human development and potential. We study giftedness and the distinctly unique social, emotional, physical, cognitive, and altrusitic-moral development, developmental milestones, and life experiences of highly–profoundly gifted children, adolescents, young adults, and families.
We consider the relationship of advanced and asynchronous development, overexcitabilities (emotional, intellectual, imaginational, psychomotor, and sensual), and developmental potential.
We conduct and disseminate scholarly research on the gifted, highly gifted, and profoundly gifted population.
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
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
Unpacking Intensities: An Exploratory Study of Parents’ Perspectives of Overexcitabilities in Highly to Profoundly Gifted Children
The Latest Research:
Access to Well-Being for Gifted and Highly–Profoundly Gifted School-Aged Children and Adolescents: An International Literature Review Study
Education-Outreach and Professional Development
The International Gifted Consortium (IGC), Research Center for Highly–Profoundly Gifted educates parents, teachers, program administrators, counselors, psychologists, and pediatricians on the research-based development and developmental potential of gifted and highly–profoundly gifted children and adolescents.
We present research findings, implications, and recommendations.
We provide research-based training and professional development workshops to all stakeholders: teachers, program administrators, psychologists, pediatricians, parents, and families.
We provide The International Gifted Consortium (IGC), Research Center for Highly–Profoundly Gifted impacts stakeholders across 69+ countries, through The IGC Podcast, Room With a View.
Advocacy
The IGC advocates for research-based developmental and educational programs.
We support parents through IGC Ambassadors.
We build community through IGC Cohorts.
We inititate the global conversation on giftedness inclusive of the highly gifted and profoundly gifted population. Highly–Profoundly Gifted: Universal Understandings and Holistic Approaches.
The first-of-its-kind, international, research-based resource.
Researched-Based Educational Programs
The International Gifted Consortium (IGC), Research Center for Highly–Profoundly Gifted is developing research-based educational programs that support the development, developmental potential, and well-being of highly–profoundly gifted children and adolescents.
Why do we need to better understand giftedness?
Why do we need to identify gifted children and adolescents?
Why do we need to support gifted education and gifted development?
Giftedness is human development and potential with identifiable social, emotional, physical, cognitive, and altrusistic-moral characteristics
The advanced and often asychronous development of gifted individuals is driven by greater-than-typical intensity, sensitivities, awareness, and innate understandings termed overexcitabilities.
Often giftedness is misconceived as academic achievement alone.
Many highly gifted and profoundly gifted children are not being identified or served.
Highly–profoundly gifted children are being misidentified in schools and misdiagnosed by untrained practitioners or overlooked completely.
Highly gifted and profoundly gifted children’ social, emotional, cognitive, physical, and altruistic-moral development is vulnerable and at high risk.
Most importantly, highly–profoundly gifted children’ well-being and future contributions are at stake.
The International GIfted Consortium (IGC), Research Center for Highly–Profondly Gifted marks 10-years
