Development in Gifted Children: Different in Many Ways

Deborah Ruf, PhD
10 min readFeb 7, 2024

Scatterplots to illustrate some of the ways!

Early in my consulting career with gifted families, my natural inclination (combined with my doctoral training) to explore, theorize, and try to figure things out about high intelligence and its affects, led me to do a fun little investigation.

Design process for the…

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Deborah Ruf, PhD

High Intelligence Specialist & Writer, Dr. Ruf writes about highly intelligent people from birth to very old age. www.fivelevelsofgifted.com