Program Description:

The Gifted Child Clinic serves as a referral agency for children who are thought to be gifted or talented. Children between three and twelve years of age are referred by parents, pediatricians and educators. A battery of tests is used to evaluate the children for signs of giftedness. Among these are standardized measures of cognitive ability, informal assessments of special skills and behavioral observations. Performance in the following areas is evaluated: language production and comprehension, reasoning, memory, spatial aptitude, social and emotional maturity, creativity, gross and fine motor maturation, level of symbolic play, reading or prereading, mathematics or premathematics, and overall intelligence.

In addition to assessment, parental counseling and parent educational courses are offered. Parents are counseled on a short-term basis on how to handle such problems as perfectionism and peer rejection experienced by some gifted children. Some parent education group topics include: how to choose appropriate schools, how to facilitate peer relations and understanding sibling-gifted child relationships.

Special Service:

• Comprehensive testing, evaluation and recommendations

Director:

• Michael Lewis PhD

• Barbara Louis, Ph.D.

Michael Lewis, PhD [ Full Listing ] Phone:   732-235-7888 Fax:   Email:   lewis@umdnj.edu Address:   Robert Wood Johnson Professional Center 97 Paterson Street New Brunswick, NJ 08901-1977