Luz F. Pérez

Camilo José Cela University

The Hidden Giftedness

Participants: Mª del Carmen Trillo Luque1; Enrique P. Aguilar Peñas1; Ángeles Bueno Villaverde2; Juan Carlos Torrego Seijo3; Marisol Gómez Ruiz4 and Ana Fuensanta Hernández Ortiz5

1University of Cordoba; 2Camilo José Cela University; 3University of Alcala de Henares; 4Portal Consulta de Psicología Athenea of Malaga; 5University of Murcia

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Symposium Summary

Within the field of psychology and education, the topic of High Capacities and giftedness has had uneven research and practical trajectory, but if we also think of different situations that can mask High Capacities, we see that the dispersion of work is high and the frequency low. Although we are dealing with minorities, we consider that they require the same educational and psychological attention as other groups, even though the field of action is much more diverse since our research is directed at groups with double exceptionality, personality disorders (Asperger's, OCD, TEL...) or behavioural disorders such as students with ADD, ADHD. Without forgetting other minorities such as girls and women or culturally different students.

Short CV

Coordinator of the Doctorate Line in Education at the Camilo José Cela University.

Former Professor of Developmental and Educational Psychology at the Complutense University of Madrid. Director of the Honorary Chair of Gifted Intelligence and Talent at Liberquaré University. Promoter and Director of the International Seminar on Women and Giftedness since 1992. Director of the GIR (International Recognized Research Group) "Gifted and Talented". Director of the University Expert Degree in Development of Intelligence, Superior Capacity and Neuropsychology, UCJC. Creator of the first Spanish enrichment programme for children with high abilities, Programa Estrella (1992). Director of the ADA Programme (High Talent Development) UCJC. She has directed nineteen doctoral theses about intelligence and educational intervention and has participated in numerous national and international funded research projects in collaboration with universities such as Yale, Harvard, Connecticut, Salzburg, Prague, etc. She also collaborates with universities in Colombia, Chile and Mexico. She collaborates with the Madrid Down Syndrome Foundation in research programmes for cognitive improvement, job placement and educational technology for people with functional diversity. She created and collaborated with the Orange Foundation in the Age Project aimed at improving and preventing intellectual deterioration in the elderly through technology. She has numerous publications in scientific journals and books (more than 80 books or book chapters and more than 60 articles in journals listed in international databases). She has received numerous awards for her scientific work.

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