Robin Schader is an assistant research professor in the Neag Center for Gifted Education and Talent Development, where she teaches online courses titled “Parenting for Talent Development” and “Collaborating with Parents and Community in Gifted Education.” Her research focuses on the role of parental involvement in talent development.
Dr. Schader also serves as the Parent Resource Specialist for the National Association for Gifted Children (NAGC). Since Sept. 2001, she has responded to and catalogued over 3000 email and phone inquiries from a broad spectrum of parents across the nation and around the world. Her publications include a regular column for NAGC’s magazine Parenting for High Potential; “Decisions Regarding Music Training: Parental Beliefs and Values” in Gifted Child Quarterly and “Music & Minds: Using a Talent Development Approach for Young Adults with Williams Syndrome in Exceptional Children.
"Parents can and do make a profound difference in their child's education, and that difference can be a positive one when parents are provided with timely, direct, and practical resources."
“There is no better advocate for a gifted child than a knowledgeable and active parent.”
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•Ph.D., University of Connecticut, 2001
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