Vanessa R. Wood

Vanessa R. Wood, MA, Gifted Education, President, The International Gifted Consortium (IGC), Research Center for The Highly—Profoundly Gifted; Director, Gifted Assessment, Identification, and Development is a visionary passionate about education, human development, and self-actualization. She believes each individual has a unique developmental path that should be honored among the collaborative community. Vanessa has studied the continuum of giftedness as a principle investigator, author, educator, parent, and not-for-profit advocate for over 15 years. She earned a masters in gifted education
while homeschooling and creating programs to fit the educational and developmental needs of highly—profoundly gifted children and adolescents. She is the corresponding author of the 2024 published study, Prevalence of Emotional, Intellectual, Imaginational, Psychomotor, Sensual Overexcitabilities in Highly and Profoundly Gifted Children and Adolescents: A mixed-methods study of development and developmental potential. She is also the corresponding author of the 2020, literature review, How Can We Better Understand, Identify, and Support Highly Gifted and Profoundly Gifted Students? A Literature Review of the Psychological Development of Highly—Profoundly Gifted Individuals and Overexcitabilities. Vanessa is the co-editor of the upcoming book Highly-Profoundly Gifted: A Holistic and Critical Approach in review by Gifted Unlimited. She is the creator and host of the IGC podcast, Room With a View and she trains parents, teachers, school administrators, counselors, and psychologists on the behaviors, development, and developmental potential of highly—profoundly gifted children and adolescents. As a graduate of Babson College with a passionate curiosity for human development, Vanessa collaborates with stakeholders and leaders across the globe and across disciplines to better understand, identify, and support the unique social, emotional, physical, cognitive, and altruistic development of Giftedness through the eyes of the highly—profoundly gifted.

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