Barbara Klein, Ed.D.

How to Encourage Your Gifted Child to Listen to Parents and Teachers
A Workshop

LEARN how, when and why gifted kids don't listen.
LEARN how to work on listening strategies with your child or student.
LEARN how you might be contributing to the "not listening" problem.
and LEARN the answers to your questions.

Tuesday, November 22, 2011, from 4:00 to 5:30 p.m.
Fee: $50 per person or $75 per couple

UCLA Faculty Center, 480 Charles Young Drive East, Los Angeles, CA 90095

RSVP Dr. Barbara Klein:  (310) 443-4182  or  barbarak360@aol.com

The workshop will be presented by Dr. Deborah Ruf.   Dr. Ruf, Minneapolis, is a specialist in gifted assessment, test interpretation, and guidance for the gifted. Having been a parent, teacher, and administrator in elementary through graduate education, she writes and speaks about school issues and social and emotional adjustment of gifted children. Her award-winning book, 5 Levels of Gifted: School Issues and Educational Options (2005) (formerly titled Losing Our Minds: Gifted Children Left Behind), summarizes "levels of intelligence" and highlights the spectrum of giftedness in children. For more information see http://www.educationaloptions.com, http://www.educationaloptions.com/about/about_qualifications.php (vita) or http://www.talentigniter.com. 

The workshop will be moderated by Dr. Barbara Klein. Dr. Klein has worked with gifted children, their parents, and public and private schools in the greater Los Angeles area since 1986. Her private practice is dedicated to assisting the special educational needs of gifted and highly gifted children. She is recognized as a national authority on the development of twins. In addition, Dr. Klein has written seven books in the field of developmental psychology and education, including her latest, entitled “Raising Gifted Kids: Everything You Need to Know to Help Your Exceptional Child Thrive.” Dr. Klein’s most outstanding contribution to the field of education was her work developing the initial parent education component for Head Start, a program developed to enhance the school readiness of economically disadvantaged preschoolers.