Exceptional Minds: Understanding and Nurturing Profoundly Gifted Children

Today we explore the intriguing world of profound giftedness, shedding light on a subject often shrouded in mystery. Blake Haygood is an educator in gifted and talented programs, and he joins us to help unravel the characteristics that define the mere 0.13% of the population considered profoundly gifted. We talk about his son, Clark, who is among this rare group, and discuss their personal journey, milestones, and aspects of his personality that make Clark so rare and unique.
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Blake Haygood is a Gifted and Talented educator in Austin Independent School District, as well as a passionate advocate for gifted education. He and his wife are also the Program Directors for a member-run nonprofit called PG Retreat, which hosts annual retreats for profoundly gifted kids and their families. Blake volunteers with TAGT, the Texas Association for the Gifted and Talented, and he and his wife work as homeschool parents to meet the needs of their profoundly/severely gifted 11-year-old child.
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Amazing dad. Your son is lucky. You are patient and capable and so very strong to hang on for the ride ✨❤️ sometimes we go so fast we burn up but usually it’s the gradient between what we can and want to pursue and the world dragging on us that burn us up. Your advocacy and grounding and just letting him fly is astounding and heart warming

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You made that poor kid watch niel 😮‍💨 why do that to the kid it they are actually profoundly gifted. Sagans version is much more or rather Sagan is much more of a mind with the spark of the cosmos and of intellect.
Sorry just my inner very resentful inner “profoundly curesed with the gift “ has some cpstd around non profoundly gifted people butchering the perspective of the profoundly gifted.
I understand this is for the parents of the gifted but still almost no material on this subject breaches the experience from the eyes of the gifted one.
At the same time it is warming the effort you gave and give towards your son and towards helping people in the lives of a gifted person to handle them better.