Full Description
In an educational system founded on rigid standards and categories, students who demonstrate a very specific manifestation of intelligence flourish, while those who deviate tend to fall between the cracks. Too often, talents and interests that do not align with classroom conventions are left unrecognized and unexplored in children with extraordinary potential but little opportunity. For twice-exceptional (2e) children, who have extraordinary strengths coupled with learning difficulties, the problem is compounded by the paradoxical nature of their intellect and an unbending system, ill-equipped to cater to their unique learning needs.
Twice Exceptional: Supporting and Educating Bright and Creative Students with Learning Difficulties provides cutting-edge, evidence-based approaches to creating an environment where twice-exceptional students can thrive. Viewing the 2e student as neither exclusively disabled nor exclusively gifted, but, rather, as a dynamic interaction of both, leading experts offer holistic insight into identification, social-emotional development, advocacy, and support for 2e students. With chapters focusing on special populations (including autism, dyslexia, and ADHD) as well as the intersection of race and 2e, this book highlights practical recommendations for school and social contexts. In expounding the unique challenges faced by the 2e population, Twice Exceptional makes a case for greater flexibility in our approach to education and a wider notion of what it means to be academically successful.
Contents
About the Editor
Contributors
Introduction
Scott Barry Kaufman
Part I: Identification
1. Finding and Serving Twice-Exceptional Students: Using Triaged Comprehensive Assessment and Protections of the Law
Bobbie Gilman and Dan Peters
2. Using a Positive Lens: Engaging Twice-Exceptional Learners
Susan Baum and Robin Schader
3. Finding Hidden Potential: Toward Best Practices in Identifying Gifted Students with Disabilities
Edward R. Amend
4. Misconceptions About Giftedness and the Diagnosis of ADHD and Other Mental Health Disorders
Deirdre V. Lovecky
5. Knowns and Unknowns about Students with Disabilities Who Also Happen to Be Intellectually Gifted
Steven I. Pfeiffer and Megan Foley Nicpon
Part II: Supporting Twice-Exceptional Students
6. How We Can Recognize and Teach Twice or Multi Exceptional Students
Susan Winebrenner
7. 2E and Social-Emotional Development: One Label, Many Facets
Judy Galbraith
8. Advocating for Twice-Exceptional Students
Rich Weinfeld
9. It Takes a Team: Growing up 2e
Mary Ruth Coleman, Lois Baldwin, and Daphne Pereles
10. Educating the Twice-Exceptional Child: Creating Strong School-to-Home Collaborative Partnerships
Kevin Besnoy
Part III: Special Populations
11. Attention Divergent Hyperactive Giftedness: Taking the Deficiency and Disorder out of the Gifted/ADHD Label
Charles Fugate
12. Appreciating and Promoting Social Creativity in Youth with Asperger's Syndrome
Matthew D. Lerner and Rebecca M. Girard
13. The Spectrum of Twice Exceptional and Autistic Learners and Suggestions for Their Learning Styles
Richard O. Williams and Jeffrey Freed
14. Visuo-Spatial Skills in Atypical Readers: Myths, Research and Potential
Maryam Trebeau Crogman, Jeffrey Gilger, and Fumiko Hoeft
15. Gifted Dyslexics: MIND-Strengths, Visual Thinking, and Creativity
Susan Daniels and Michelle Freeman
16. Being 3E, a new look at culturally diverse gifted learners with exceptional conditions: an examination of the issues and solutions for educators and families
Joy Lawson Davis and Shawn Anthony Robinson
17. Where the Rubber Meets the Road: Supporting the Educational Success of Twice-Exceptional African American Students
Renae D. Mayes, Erik M. Hines, and James L. Moore III
Part IV: Models
18. Bridges Academy: A Strengths-Based Model for 2E
Carl Sabatino and Chris Wiebe
19. Integration and Dynamic Adaptation in the Formation of a Novel 2e School Model
Kimberly Busi and Kristin Berman
Index
