Linda Silverman

Linda Kreger Silverman, Ph.D., is a licensed clinical and counseling psychologist who has contributed more than 300 publications to the field, including the textbook Counseling the Gifted and Talented, based on Dabrowski's theory, and Upside-Down Brilliance: The Visual-Spatial Learner. She founded and directs the Institute for the Study of Advanced Development and its subsidiary, the Gifted Development Center (www.gifteddevelopment.com), which has assessed more than 5,500 children in the last 30 years.

Silverman created the only journal on adult giftedness, Advanced Development, dedicated to promoting Dabrowski's theory. Co-chair of the NAGC Task Force on Assessment, she advises major test publishers, organizes symposia on assessment of the gifted, and has been instrumental in the development of extended norms for the WISC-IV.

Her latest book, Giftedness 101 (New York: Springer, 2013), went into third printing within 6 months of its release. A popular presenter, Linda has keynoted conferences in New Zealand, Singapore, Hong Kong, Australia, Denmark, Ireland, the U.S., and others.