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SENG Founder and GPP President Wins National NAGC Award
James T. Webb, Ph.D., who established SENG in 1981 and remains as Chair of SENG’s Professional Advisory Committee, will receive the prestigious Community Service Award by the National Association for Gifted Children at the NAGC national convention in New Orleans on November 3. NAGC annually presents this Community Service Award to an individual or group that has made a contribution that benefits the development of gifts and talents in young people. This contribution must affect the larger community, state, or nation.
As one person who nominated Dr. Webb noted, “Many of his works are well known for enhancing the lives of gifted children….In the past couple of decades, he has almost singlehandedly elevated community-based consciousness and has evoked community-based action in support of the development of gifted and talented youth globally.”
Dr. Webb, author of more than 70 professional publications, fifteen books, three DVDs, and many research papers, has been recognized as one of the 25 most influential psychologists nationally on gifted education. He has served on the Board of Directors for the National Association for Gifted Children, and he was President of the American Association for Gifted Children. He has received the National Award for Excellence, Senior Investigator Division, from the Mensa Education and Research Foundation, and in 2011 he received the Lifetime Achievement Award of the Arizona Association for Gifted and Talented.
Formerly Professor and Associate Dean at the Wright State University School of Professional Psychology in Dayton, Ohio, Dr. Webb previously was on the faculty of Ohio University and had been in private practice of psychology. A Fellow of the American Psychological Association, he served for three years on its governing body, the Council of Representatives, and he received the Heiser Presidential Award for Advocacy by the American Psychological Association.
A frequent keynote and workshop speaker at state, national, and international conventions, Dr. Webb, a licensed and board-certified psychologist, has appeared on Good Morning America, CBS Sunday Morning, The Phil Donahue Show, CNN, Public Radio International, and National Public Radio.
Dr. Webb currently resides in Tucson, Arizona, where he is president of Great Potential Press, an award-winning publisher of books for parents and teachers of gifted children.
James Webb and Janet Gore receive the 2011 Sanford J. Cohn Lifetime Achievement Award
James T. Webb and Janet L. Gore are co-recipients of the Sanford J. Cohn Lifetime Achievement Award for 2011. They were presented with the award during the 2011 Arizona Association for Gifted & Talented Annual Conference on February 4. The conference was held at the Black Canyon Conference Center in Phoenix, AZ. The award recognizes achievements and contributions to gifted children, their families and their educators.
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