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 individuals since 2015. Headquartered in Arizona, The International Gifted Consortium (IGC), Research Center for Highly–Profoundly Gifted is a transformational group of leaders from across the globe, who possess an experienced understanding of giftedness in its most acute, highly developed form. We serve the unique development of this often misunderstood gifted population. Together, we educate stakeholders on the research-based development typically found in highly gifted and profoundly gifted individuals to aid understanding, identification, and support of 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.
Mission
To collaboratively understand, identify, and support
the unique social, emotional, physical, cognitive, and altruistic
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 (in review)
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.
Critical Need
Giftedness needs to be better understood, identified, and supported.
Giftedness is human development and potential with identifiable characteristics driven by intense sensitivities, keen awareness, and innate understandings.
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.
Highly gifted and profoundly gifted children’ social, emotional, cognitive, physical, and altruistic-moral development is vulnerable
Highly–Profoundly gifted children’ well-being is at high risk.
The International GIfted Consortium (IGC), Research Center for Highly–Profondly Gifted marks 10-years
