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David Palmer Ph.D.

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David Palmer, Ph.D., is an educational psychologist, writer, award-winning researcher, and frequent presenter at local, state, and national events. He currently practices in Southern California and is the Director of the Palmer Learning Center in Laguna Beach. He has served as an Assistant Professor of Education at California State University, Los Angeles and has lectured on university campuses including UCLA in the areas of counseling, assessment, and education. Dr. Palmer also specializes in learning disability assessment, and has trained other psychologists in this area at the university graduate level. He has personally administered hundreds of educational tests to children of all ages and ability levels and has helped hundreds of families find the right school program for their children. Dr. Palmer is the author of Parents Guide to IQ Testing and Gifted Education and was recently featured as a commentator on the Discovery Health Channel's "My Kid's Smarter than Me."

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Gifted Kids With Learning Problems
Children identified as having a learning disability are otherwise capable students who are not working up to their potential because of an underlying processing problem. Many gifted students fit this pattern.
Private Testing for Gifted Kids... If and When?
Individually administered comprehensive IQ tests like the most recent editions of the Wechsler Intelligence Scale (WISC IV) or the Stanford Binet (SB V) are considered more reliable and valid, and offer parents and teachers more information, than the group IQ tests often given in the schools.