Vanessa R. Wood, Psy.D., Clinical Psychology, is the co-founder and president of The International Gifted Consortium (IGC), Research Center for Highly—Profoundly Gifted and principal consultant of Gifted Assessment, Identification, and Development (Gifted AID). Dr. Wood is the co-principal investigator and corresponding author of the 2024 international study, “Prevalence of Emotional, Intellectual, Imaginational, Psychomotor, and 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 publication, “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.” Dr. Reineke Wood designed programs to fit the educational and developmental needs of highly—profoundly gifted children and adolescents and she trains parents, teachers, administrators, counselors, and psychologists on the behaviors, development, and developmental potential of highly—profoundly gifted individuals. Her new book, Highly-Profoundly Gifted: Universal Understandings and Holistic Approaches, co-authored with Ed De Wit, M.A., will be released Fall of 2025.

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