COVID-19 Updates

Please contact us for any questions you have about consultations, testing, Gifted Qualitative Assessment, reanalyzing previous assessment results and assistance with learning at home.

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In-Person Assessment

  • GDC sees only one child a day, accompanied by one parent.

  • We take your temperature and your child’s temperature upon arrival.

  • We see clients who have not traveled by air.

  • Wear a mask and have a mask for your child.

  • If any family member develops symptoms, please reschedule.

  • Please sign our consent form prior to arrival.

COVID-19 Consent Form

Virtual Assessment

  • To limit exposure, we utilize a partial virtual meeting platform involving two testing rooms, dual computers and cameras.

  • If appropriate for your child and allowed in your state, we provide total virtual assessment for selection to programs for the gifted.

  • We offer the Gifted Qualitative Assessment virtually, which is accepted for placement at schools for the gifted (e.g.,The Helios School in California and Seabury in Washington).

Support at Home

  • We can help you determine whether homeschooling might be right for your child. Dana Clay, who specializes in guiding homeschooling for the gifted, is available to assist you and your family. Contact Dana.

  • We continuously develop new activities for gifted children to do while at home, as well as books they might enjoy. Click here to view.

Ensuring a Good Start on Your Gifted Homeschool Journey

Are you concerned about sending your child to school during these uncertain times?  Are you considering homeschooling your gifted child(ren)?

If so, then join us for one of three Zoom classes on homeschooling, “Ensuring a Good Start on Your Gifted Homeschool Journey” and discover the essentials for starting your homeschool.  Dana Clay, Homeschool Consultant at Gifted Development Center, supports families with solid information, and advice born of experience.  She works to nurture a strong sense of autonomy in parents so they feel confident, and ready to design and then implement their children's education at home.  

Topics include:  

  • Legalities 

  • Perspective (why am I homeschooling?)

  • Levels of giftedness/asynchrony/2e at home 

  • Financial considerations 

  • Common homeschool styles 

  • Placement (How do I know what level my child should be in?)

 

Class Dates: 

  • Wednesday, April 7 | 7:00pm - 9:00pm MST

  • Saturday, May 15 | 10:00am - 12:00pm MST

Cost:  $75 per family for one class

Please call 303-837-8378 to register.

Dana Doherty Clay, Gifted Development Center Homeschool Consultant, taught her own four gifted children at home for well over 20 years, in addition to working with countless other students while teaching music privately.  In her 40’s, she became a teacher in public schools, where she matched appropriate curriculum and strategies to individual students as a Response to Intervention/Multi-Tiered System of Supports Coordinator and Gifted Coordinator as well as in the classroom.  Her credentials include:  B.A. in Music Performance, M.Ed. in Gifted Education, and a current Colorado teaching license with multiple endorsements.  Dana has given presentations at the NAGC Conference, the CAGT Conference, Colorado Department of Education, and ECBOCES on Gifted in Music, Giftedness and the Arts, Identification and Programming, Creativity, and Self-directed Independent Study.