Linda Powers Leviton, M.A., is a licensed Marriage, Family and Child Therapist who counsels, coaches and consults people of all ages on a range of topics related to communication, relationships, parenting, education, giftedness and learning styles. She currently is the West Coast Director of the Gifted Development Center (www.gifteddevelopment.com). Linda grew up in Los Angeles, Ca. with two handicapped siblings, attending GATE programs in LAUSD. She met Dr. Linda Silverman in 1964. This led to a life-long Mentorship, Friendship, and Professional Collaboration includ¬ing co-authoring articles such as "In Search of the Perfect Program," which has been reprinted six times and continues to be relevant more than 20 years after its first publication. Graduating from Pitzer College with honors in Psychology and Art, she attended the Claremont Graduate School Teaching Internship Program and eventually Phillips Graduate Institute in Clinical Counseling. Since 1974, Ms. Leviton has developed and taught programs to help parents and educators best reach children with learning and emotional challenges, particularly the twice exceptional, those who are gifted and also challenged with social, emotional or learning challenges. Ms. Leviton offers training programs and workshops to help teachers, parents and administrators identify and teach visual-spatial and gifted learners (www.visualspatial.org) and she has written numerous articles on learning style, giftedness and personality. Other avocations include art, cartooning, being married for 25 years and raising three gifted and creative children. She can be reached at: www.leviton.org or www.giftedandcreativecounseling.com or by e-mail: linda@leviton.org