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Gifted Students
Susannah Wood, an associate professor at the University of Iowa’s College of Education and the program coordinator for the master’s program in school counseling, suggests starting close to home when seeking resources to assist in the counseling of a gifted student.
“Always go local first because they’re your best experts. Go find a teacher of the talented and gifted, or your gifted coordinator,” says Wood, who teaches both doctoral students and students pursuing their master’s in school counseling with an emphasis in gifted education in partnership with the Connie Belin and Jacqueline N. Blank International Center for Gifted Education and Talented Development at the University of Iowa.