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CLIENT
DESCRIPTION
The Hollingworth
Center is a national support and resource network focused on the needs
of highly gifted children. A non-profit corporation, staffed by volunteers,
the Center was founded in central Maine in 1983 by Kathi Kearney as a
parent support group, in the belief that highly gifted children and their
families need not feel isolated. The Center primarily serves as a clearinghouse
of information and events concerning the needs of highly gifted children.
The Center was named in honor of Dr. Leta Hollingworth, who conducted
one of the first pioneering studies of exceptionally gifted children,
their social/emotional needs and how best to educate them.
Our goal
is to provide an environment where parents and their highly gifted children,
educators and mental health professionals can come together to:
- 1) foster
an understanding of the special needs of highly gifted people within
the educational community and within society-at-large;
- 2) facilitate
communication between the families of highly gifted children;
- 3) support
highly gifted children and their families by linking them with appropriate
services and resources; and 4) offer adult programming, which addresses
exemplary practices and strategies for educating, counseling, and parenting
highly gifted children
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