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November 4th – 8th, 2004 -- Salt Lake City, Utah
National Association for Gifted Children
Linda: INTENSITIVE! Four Decades of Studying Emotional
Allie Golon: Raising Topsy-Turvy Kids: Successfully Parenting Your Visual-Spatial Child
Steve Haas, with Linda Silverman: Creativity and the Gifted Visual-Spatial Learner
Keynote Presentation for Utah Association for the Gifted Parent Day:
Allie: Raising Topsy-Turvy Kids: Successfully Parenting Your Visual-Spatial Child
January 23rd - 25th, 2005 -- Baltimore, Maryland
Parent Leadership Institute of Maryland
Linda: Upside-Down Brilliance: The Visual-Spatial Learner
Linda & Allie: Raising Topsy-Turvy Kids: Successfully Parenting Your Visual-Spatial Child
January 13, 2005 -- Boulder, Colorado
Rocky Mountain School for the Gifted & Creative
Allie: Raising Topsy-Turvy Kids
January 26th, 2005 -- Milliken/Loveland, Colorado
Colorado BOCES
Linda: Upside-Down Brilliance
January 31st , 2005 -- Loveland, Colorado
Colorado BOCES
Allie: Raising Topsy-Turvy Kids: Successfully Parenting Your Visual-Spatial Child
April 19th – 21st, 2005 -- Colorado Springs, CO
ARTS/BUSINESS/EDUCATION Consortium
Linda: Upside-Down Brilliance: Identifying and Serving Gifted Visual-Spatial Learners and Coping Strategies for Gifted Visual-Spatial Learners
May 16th, 2005 Westminster, Colorado
Parents of Gifted Offspring
Allie: Raising Topsy-Turvy Kids: Successfully Parenting Your Highly Gifted Visual-Spatial Learner
September 16th , 2005 -- Colorado Springs, Colorado
Colorado Springs School District 11
Linda: At-Risk Visual-Spatial Students
September 26th, 2005 Sterling, Colorado
North East BOCES Region
Linda: Upside-Down Brilliance: The Visual-Spatial Learner
November 8th & 9th, 2005 Thornton, Colorado
Stargate Charter School
Allie: Raising Topsy-Turvy Kids: Successfully Parenting Your Visual-Spatial Learner and
I Can't See It! Teaching Strategies for Visual-Spatial Learners
October 27th, 2005 Boulder, Colorado
Rocky Mountain School for the Gifted & Creative
Linda: I'm Not Gifted, I'm Just Busy!
The first in a luncheon series for gifted woman.
January 19th, 2006 Denver, Colorado
The Odyssey School
Allie: Raising Topsy-Turvy Kids: Successfully Parenting Your Visual-Spatial Learner
January 24th, 2006 Boulder, Colorado
Rocky Mountain School for the Gifted & Creative
Linda: Intidmidating? Impopster? The Plight fo the Gifted Woman
The first in a luncheon series for gifted woman.
November, 2006 Englewood, Colorado
Cherry Creek Association for the Gifted
Allie: Raising Topsy-Turvy Kids: Sucessfully Parenting Your Visual-Spatial Child
January 25th, 2007 Boulder, Colorado
Rocky Mountain School for the Gifted and Creative
Allie: Raising Topsy-Turvy Kids: Sucessfully Parenting Your Visual-Spatial Child
February 15, 2007
Most Precious Blood School - Denver, Colorado
Allie: Raising Topsy-Turvy Kids: Sucessfully Parenting Your Visual-Spatial Child
February 16, 2007 - Denver, Colorado
Most Precious Blood School - Denver, Colorado
Allie: The Visual-Spatial Classroom: Differentiation Strategies that Engage Every Learner
March 6, 2007 -- Boulder, Colorado
Eisenhower Elementary School
Allie: Raising Topsy-Turvy Kids: Successfully Parenting Your Visual-Spatial Child
February 18 th – 19 th, 2005 -- Green Bay, Wisconsin
Southern Door School District
Linda: Upside-Down Brilliance: The Visual-Spatial Learner and Social-Emotional Needs of the Gifted
April 15th – 17th, 2005 -- Harrisburg, Pennsylvania
Pennsylvania Association for Gifted Education State Conference
Keynote Address:
Linda: Upside-Down Brilliance: The Visual-Spatial Learner ; Gifted/LD: Is Compensation the Answer? And, The Disappearing Gifted Girl
Featured Speaker:
Allie: Raising Topsy-Turvy Kids: Successfully Parenting Your Visual-Spatial Child and Help! My Child is Gifted!
June 2nd – 4th, 2005 Freeport, Maine
Transdisciplinary Workshops
Linda & Allie: Upside-Down Brilliance: The Visual-Spatial Learner
Allie: Raising Topsy-Turvy Kids: Successfully Parenting Your Visual-Spatial Child
August 6th – 10th, 2005 -- New Orleans, Louisiana
16th Biennial World Conference for Gifted Children
Linda Silverman: Symposium on Assessment of the Gifted
Linda Silverman & Steve Haas: Giftedness and the Visual-Spatial Learner with Steve Haas
Allie: Raising Topsy-Turvy Kids: Successfully Parenting Your Visual-Spatial Child
Visual-Spatial Resource Access Team (Linda Silverman, Allie Golon, Steve Haas and Linda Leviton): The New Mode of Giftedness: Visual-Spatial Learners
Steve Haas: Teaching Strategies for Gifted Visual-Spatial Learners
Allie: Showing Your Work When There’s Nothing to Show
Please help us help victims of Hurricane Katrina.
While Linda and I were in New Orleans, we met a witty and charismatic artist in the French Quarter, named Oscar. We each bought pins from his wonderful collection that we gave to relatives.
In the days following the disaster, just two and half weeks after our visit, we kept asking each other, "I wonder how Oscar is, do you think he got out?" Oscar's face and the faces of many New Orleaneans were fresh in our memories.
Through a bizarre twist of fate, Linda came upon more of his work at her sister's home. She was certain it was his handiwork. When she flipped the piece over, sure enough it read, "Oscar 2002." The pin was still attached to a business card with Oscar's email!
We have since contacted Oscar who successfully escaped New Orleans, but only barely, and is now living in Atlanta. Oscar lost his home and neighborhood. But his optimistic outlook continues and his business in now online.
Oscar has agreed to offer a portion of his profits to help other victims of Hurricane Katrina. Please know that a purchase of one of his gorgeous pins will truly help him and his family.
Please help us by visiting
Oscar's site at oscarofneworleans.com
Thank you!
Allie
September 23rd, 2005 -- Los Angeles, California
The Mirman School for the Gifted
Featured Presenter: Allie Golon
Including Linda Silverman and Linda Leviton
Connecting the Dots: Why Highly Gifted Students are Visual-Spatial Learners
September 29th – October 1st, 2005 -- Ann Arbor, Michigan
Summers-Knoll School for the Gifted
Linda’s Keynote Presentation: Inside-Out: Social and Emotional Needs of Gifted Children and Asynchronous Development
Allie: Raising Topsy-Turvy Kids: Successfully Parenting Your Visual-Spatial Student
Allie’s Keynote Presentation: I Can’t See It: Teaching Strategies for Visual-Spatial Learners
Linda & Allie Help! My Child is Gifted!
January 16th – 19th Grand Rapids, MI
The January Series
Calvin College
Linda: Upside-Down Brilliance: The Visual-Spatial Learner
January 18th, -- Grand Rapids, Michigan
Grand Rapids School District
Linda & Steve: Validation of the Visual-Spatial Identifier
Linda: Help! My Child is Gifted! for the GT Resources Network
October 5th – 8th, 2005 -- Boise, Idaho
Warm Springs Counseling Center
Linda: Upside-Down Brilliance: The Visual-Spatial Learner and Emotional Needs of the Gifted; The Two-Edged Sword of Compensation: How the Gifted Cope with Learning Disabilities
February 1st - 4th, 2006 -- Coeur d'Alene, Idaho
Winter Edu-fest
Linda: Upside-Down Brilliance: The Visual-Spatial Learner, The Two-Edged Sword of Compensation: How the Gifted Cope with Learning Disabilities, Perfectionism, The Disappearing Gifted Girl, Assessment of the Gifted, Personality Styles of the Gifted
Allie: Raising Topsy-Turvy Kids: Successfully Parenting Your Visual-Spatial Child, Help! My Child is Gifted! I Can’t See it! Teaching Strategies for Visual-Spatial Learners(Grades K-5), I Can’t See it! Teaching Strategies for Visual-Spatial Learners (Grades 6+), Maintaining Harmony at Home: Homeschooling Visual-Spatial Learners
October 11th, 2005 -- River Forest, Illinois
River Forest School District 90
Linda: Upside-Down Brilliance: The Visual-Spatial Learner and Two-Edged Sword of Compensation: How the Gifted Cope with Learning Disabilities
Allie: Teaching Strategies for Visual-Spatial Learners, grades K-5; Teaching Strategies for Visual-Spatial Learners, grades 6+ ; If You Could See the Way I Think: A Workshop for Visual-Spatial Kids; and Raising Topsy-Turvy Kids: Successfully Parenting Your Visual-Spatial Learner
October 21st, 2005 -- Scottsdale, Arizona
Foothills Academy College Preparatory
Linda: Upside-Down Brilliance: The Visual-Spatial Learner
January 29th – 31st, 2006 Page, Arizona
Page Unified School District
Validation of the Visual-Spatial Identifier with Linda Silverman and Steve Haas
March 27th, 2006 -- Page, Arizona
Page Unified School District
Allie: Raising Topsy-Turvy Kids: Successfully Parenting Your Visual-Spatial Child
October 2nd, 2006 -- Page, Arizona
Page Unified School District
Allie:
The Visual-Spatial Classroom: Strategies for Middle and High School Teachers;
The Visual-Spatial Classroom: Strategies for Elementary School Teachers; and,
Raising Topsy-Turvy Kids: Successfully Parenting Your Visual-Spatial Child
February 7th-8th, 2007, Phoenix, Arizona
Arizona Association for the Gifted Annual Conference
Allie:
“I Can’t See It!” Differentiation Strategies for Visual-Spatial Learners”
Co-presentation with Melissa Devries: “Making Education Relevant for Gifted Native Americans”
This is an E-Ticket Ride! The Rollercoaster that is Parenting Gifted Children
Invited Panel Member: Culturally & Linguistically Diverse Gifted Learners
November 8th – 13th, 2005 -- Louisville, Kentucky
National Association for Gifted Children
Linda Silverman & Steve Haas: Giftedness and the Visual-Spatial Learner
Linda & Deirdre Lovecky: The Divergent thinker: The Keys to the Universe
Linda: "I Can't See It!" Learning through Imagery
March 6- 8, 2006 Williamsburg, VA
Center for Gifted Education College of William and Mary
National Curriculum Network Conference
Keynote March 7th : Upside-Down Brilliance
February 22nd – 25th , 2006 Lincoln, Nebraska
Nebraska State Conference for Gifted Children
Linda:
Keynote: Social-Emotional Development of the Gifted: Discoveries of Leta Hollingworth Breakout: Upside-Down Brilliance: The Visual-Spatial Learner and INTENSITIVE!
Allie:
Pre-conference evening, Help! My Child is Gifted!
Breakout: Raising Topsy-Turvy Kids: Successfully Parenting Your Visual-
Spatial Child
March 26th – 27th Las Vegas, Nevada
Gifted Program of the Clark County School District
Linda:
Reversing Underachievement
Inside-Out: Understanding the Social and Emotional Needs of Gifted Children
April 24th - 27th, 2006 Cedar Rapids & Williamsburg, Iowa
Cedar Rapids Association for the Gifted and Heartland AED Amana Spring Conference
Allie, Parent Night:
Raising Topsy-Turvy Kids: Successfully Parenting Your Gifted Child
Linda & Allie:
Upside-down Brilliance: Differentiation Strategies that Engage Every Learner!
October 18th – October 23rd, 2006 New England Conference
12th Annual New England Conference for Gifted and Talented
Linda:
8:45 – 10:00: Keynote - “The Disappearing Gifted Girl”
1:15 – 2:30: Breakout Topic - “Upside-Down Brilliance: The Visual-Spatial Learner”
 Canada
Edmonton; Whitehorse; Vancouver;
May 26th, 2000 - Toronto, Ontario
Association for Bright Children of Ontario
Linda: Upside-Down Giftedness: The Visual-Spatial Learner
January 18th, 1996 -- Vancouver, British Columbia
British Columbia Alternative Education Association
Linda: Are Gifted Underachievers Primarily Visual-Spatial Learners?
October 1st –2nd, 2004 -- Vancouver, British Columbia
Silbury School
Linda: Upside-Down Brilliance: The Visual-Spatial Learner
Allie: Raising Topsy-Turvy Kids: Successfully Parenting Your Visual-Spatial Child
November 30th – Dec. 2nd, 2004 -- Vancouver, British Columbia
Silbury School
Linda: Upside-Down Brilliance: The Visual-Spatial Learner
December 3rd-5th , 2004 -- Whitehorse, Yukon
LDAY – Learning Disabilities Association of the Yukon
Linda: Upside-Down Brilliance: The Visual-Spatial Learner
Allie: Raising Topsy-Turvy Kids: Successfully Parenting Your Visual-Spatial Child
April 27th , 2005 -- Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
Red Deer Catholic Regional Division #39
Linda: Inside-Out: Social and Emotional Needs of the Gifted and, Help! My Child is Gifted!
April 28th , 2005 -- Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
Edmonton Public Schools
Linda & Allie: Help! My Child is Gifted
April 29th , 2005 -- Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
Edmonton Public Schools
Linda: Perfectionism
Linda & Allie: Upside-Down Brilliance: The Visual-Spatial Learner
April 29th , 2005 -- Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
New Horizons School
Allie: Raising Topsy-Turvy Kids: Successfully Parenting Your Visual-Spatial Child
April 30th , 2005 -- Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
Society for the Homeschool Network of Edmonton
Allie Golon, Deb Paquette, Linda Silverman
Allie: Homeschooling Your Visual-Spatial Child: Maintaining Harmony While Honoring Learning Styles
 New Zealand
March 1-6, 2005 -- Auckland, New Zealand
George Parkyn National Centre for Gifted Education
Allie: Raising Topsy-Turvy Kids: Successfully Parenting Your Visual-Spatial Child
Linda: Upside-Down Brilliance: The Visual-Spatial Learner
Allie: If You Could See the Way I Think: A Workshop for Visual-Spatial Kids
March 7th, 2005 -- Christchurch, New Zealand
George Parkyn National Centre for Gifted Education
Allie: Raising Topsy-Turvy Kids: Successfully Parenting Your Visual-Spatial Child
Linda : Upside-Down Brilliance: The Visual-Spatial Learner
 Australia
Brisbane; Canberra; Melbourne; Sydney
March 12th, 2005 -- Brisbane, Australia
Queensland Association for Gifted Children
Linda: Upside-Down Brilliance: The Visual-Spatial Learner and INTENSITIVE!
Allie: Raising Topsy-Turvy Kids: Successfully Parenting Your Visual-Spatial Child
March 14th, 2005 -- Brisbane, Australia
Australian Primary Principals Association
Linda: Upside-Down Brilliance: The Visual-Spatial Learner
Allie: Teaching Strategies/Practical Applications
March 15th, 2005 -- Brisbane, Australia
Bayside Learning & Development Network
Linda: Upside-Down Brilliance: The Visual-Spatial Learner
Allie: Raising Topsy-Turvy Kids: Successfully Parenting Your Visual-Spatial Child
March 16th – 17th, 2005 -- Canberra, New South Wales
New South Wales Association for Gifted & Talented
Linda: INTENSITIVE!
Allie: Raising Topsy-Turvy Kids: Successfully Parenting Your Visual-Spatial Child
Allie: If You Could See the Way I Think: A Workshop for Visual-Spatial Kids
March 17th, 2005 -- Canberra, New South Wales
New South Wales Association for Gifted & Talented
Linda: Upside-Down Brilliance: The Visual-Spatial Learner
Allie: Teaching Strategies for Visual-Spatial Learners
July 19th, 1997 -- Sydney, New South Wales
New South Wales Association for Gifted and Talented Children, Inc.
Linda: Visual-Spatial Learners and Giftedness
March 18th, 2005 -- Sydney, New South Wales
New South Wales Association for Gifted and Talented Children, Inc.
Linda: INTENSITIVE!
Linda & Allie: Upside-Down Brilliance: The Visual-Spatial Learner
Allie: Teaching Strategies for Visual-Spatial Learners and If You Could See the Way I Think (Children’s Workshop)
March 19th, 2005 -- Sydney, New South Wales
New South Wales Association for Gifted and Talented Children, Inc.
Linda & Allie: Help! My Child is Gifted!
Allie: Raising Topsy-Turvy Kids: Successfully Parenting Your Visual-Spatial Child
Linda: INTENSITIVE
Allie: If You Could See the Way I Think: A Workshop for Visual-Spatial Kids
March 21st – 22nd, 2005 -- Melbourne, Australia
StarJump Special Needs Education
Allie: Raising Topsy-Turvy Kids: Successfully Parenting Your Visual-Spatial Child
Linda: Upside-Down Brilliance: The Visual-Spatial Learner
Allie: If You Could See the Way I Think: A Workshop for Visual-Spatial Kids
 The Netherlands
November 17th, 2005 -- The Hague
European Council of Independent Schools
Linda: Upside-Down Brilliance: The Visual-Spatial Learner, full-day pre-conference workshop
November 18th, 2005:
The Two-Edged Sword of Compensation: How the Gifted Cope with Learing Disabilities
November 19th, 2005:
Who Cares if I'm Smart, Am I Thin Enough?
November 22nd, 2005 -- Driebergen
Kuipers and Van Kempen and the Maria J. Krabbe Foundation for Visual Thinking
Gifted Adults: Unrecognized Giftedness in Women
Upside-Down Brilliance: The Visual-Spatial Learner
 Great Britain
November 24th & 26th, 2005 -- London
PEGY
Linda: The Two-Edged Sword of Compensation: How the Gifted Cope with Learing Disabilities,
Upside-Down Brilliance: The Visual-Spatial Learner, Inside-Out: Understanding Emotional Needs of the
Gifted, and Special Needs of the Highly Gifted
November 28th, 2005 -- Great Missenden
The Gateway School
Linda: Upside-Down Brilliance: The Visual-Spatial Learner
 Spain
2001 -- Barcelona, Spain
14th World Council Conference of Gifted & Talented Children
Steve: The Visual-Spatial Identifier
 Hong Kong
1995 -- Hong Kong
11th World Conference of Gifted & Talented Children
Steve: Algebra for Gifted Visual-Spatial Learners
 Japan
Linda Silverman, Allie Golon, Bobbie Gilman
and Natalia Jackson at Kamakura
(The Great Buddha)
May 19 and 20, 2006 -- Tokyo, Japan
Tokyo Gifted Academy
"Creating a Community of Gifted Learners"
The First International Conference on Giftedness in Japan
Two days of lectures by Linda Silverman, Allie Golon and Bobbie Gilman including:
The Universal Experience of Being Out-of-Sync and Upside-Down Brilliance by Linda Silverman
This is an E-Ticket Ride! The Rollercoaster that is Parenting Gifted Children and
Raising Topsy-Turvy Kids-Successfully Parenting Your Visual-Spatial Child by Allie Golon
Empowering Gifted Minds: The Risks and Optimal Solutions and Testing Your Gifted Child: A Springboard for Effective Advocacy by Bobbie Gilman |
