🔬 Interested in Research Collaboration?

GiftedBecoming™ is more than a workbook — it’s a research-informed framework designed to help gifted and deep-thinking learners succeed on standardized tests without shrinking their brilliance.

🤝 Seeking Research Partners & Academic Collaborators

We are currently inviting collaboration with university researchers, graduate students, and professionals in the following fields:

  • Gifted Education

  • Applied Behavior Analysis

  • Adult Learning & Andragogy

  • Performance Psychology

  • Cognitive Neuroscience

  • Neurodivergent Advocacy

About the Model

GiftedBecoming™ is in early-stage development and built upon the principles of Behavioral Neurodivergent Learning — an interdisciplinary approach that blends behavior science, cognitive intensity, and emotional regulation to support gifted and twice-exceptional learners.

We welcome partnerships for:

📊 Collaborative study design

🧠 Pilot testing in academic or clinical environments

📚 Qualitative and quantitative research on gifted learning, overthinking, and performance anxiety

If you are a professor, researcher, or graduate student interested in exploring how this approach impacts learning, test performance, and identity development, we’d love to connect.

📧 Email: Support@GiftedBecoming.com

🌐 Website: www.GiftedBecoming.com

🌱 Founder’s Credo — by Lisangelee Velazquez, M.S.

Creator of GiftedBecoming™ and the Behavioral Neurodivergent Learning Framework

I didn’t set out to create a field.

I set out to survive one.

I was the student who could grasp systems no one explained —

…and yet I failed the tests designed to measure understanding.

I was the thinker who could see what others missed —

…and yet I was told I overcomplicated everything.

I was gifted, yes. But I was also misunderstood, anxious, overthinking, and left out of the learning models built for “typical” minds.

When I searched for resources, I found only band-aids — or silence.

So I did what gifted people have always done when systems fail us:

I built what I needed and offered it to others.

GiftedBecoming™ is more than a workbook.

It is a research-informed, behaviorally grounded system for gifted, twice-exceptional, and neurodivergent learners who are tired of shrinking their brilliance just to succeed.

It honors our minds instead of silencing them.

It teaches self-understanding, not self-erasure.

It dares to say: You are not too much. The system is too little.

In naming Behavioral Neurodivergent Learning, I am not claiming ownership over people.

I am claiming stewardship over an approach that didn’t exist before —

one that integrates radical behaviorism, metacognition, and emotional intensity into a usable, teachable, livable framework.

Others will refine it, research it, challenge it, and expand it.

That is not a threat. That is the goal.

But let history show:

This is where it began.

And I am proud to say:

I built it with open hands — and an unshrinkable mind.

— Lisangelee Velazquez, M.S.

Founder, GiftedBecoming™