Rhode Island Speakers Bureau on Gifted and Talented Children and Education Issues    Dr. Dennis C. Dillon  Member, RI State Advisory Committee on Gifted and Talented Education. Topics: 1)A survey of RI Superintendents on the status of gifted and talented education in their districts; 2) Helping gifted and talented children and their families prepare for college. Phone: (401)-783-5644  Dr. Dianne McAulay  Member, RI State Advisory Committee on Gifted and Talented Education. Gifted and talented teacher and teacher educator. Topic: Professional development needs in RI. Sue Griggs  Talent Development Coordinator/Enrichment Specialist at the Creative Learning Center-Westerly School District. Topics: Total Talent Development, Curriculum Modification Techniques for High Ability Students, Curriculum Differentiated Techniques for Profoundly Gifted Children, Flexible Grouping Practices, Enrichment Learning and Teaching, Interest Based Research Projects, Writing in the Content Area, The Enrichment Triad Model. Phone: 401-596-0315 Ext. 223 Fax: 401-348-8190 Betsy D. Ose  Enrichment Teacher, Program Coordinator for Gifted and Talented Education at the Bristol/Warren School District.  Topics:  1) Nurturing Creativity workshop focus on ways to foster creativity both at home and in school;  2) "Different Strokes for Different Folks"-instructional modifications to meet the needs of GT in the regular classroom;  3) Creating Webpages-basics of page design, text and graphic imports, scanning photos, hyper links and FTP process. Lin Murray Patty  Coordinator, Gifted and Talented Programs-Exeter/West Greenwich School District. Topics: 1)Middle school programs that work; 2) ADD and the Gifted. Phone: (401)-295-7008 Dr. Ann O'Grady  Presents workshops on community service learning and arts-across-the-curriculum. Home Phone: 401-294-2215, E-mail: aogrady@necrinc.com Dr. Deirdre V. Lovecky  Psychologist. Presenter at national conferences. Speaks on the difficulty of differentiating ADHD from Giftedness. One of the few Psychologists in the country who still use the Stanford Binet LM for children who top out on two or more subtests on a WISC-lll or Stanford Binet -R. Considered by several colleagues to be the best in the country at distinguishing between ADHD and Giftedness. Diane Scanlon  Parent/National Advocate. Originally designed this website and DiRhody.Com, a very popular site dedicated to helping Highly Gifted Children with Learning Disabilites. Originally from RI, Diane is now living in California where she is currently working as a Technical Customer Support Representative for Xerox Corporation's DocuShare Business Unit - Palo Alto, CA. She is available to help with advocacy through the web and email at diane@dirhody.com. She is also available to speak on several subjects, including   Parent - Teacher/Administration/School Committee Diplomacy How to Successfully Advocate in Your Town. How Smart is "Too Smart for School" How to Successfully Homeschool the Highly Gifted Child When Nothing Else Works.