Twice Exceptional: Supporting and Educating Bright and Creative Students with Learning Difficulties

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.

• To Be Gifted and Learning Disabled: Strength-Based Strategies for Helping Twice-Exceptional Students With LD, ADHD
• Boost: 12 Effective Ways to Lift Up Our Twice-Exceptional Children (Perspectives) (Volume 11)
• Different Minds: Gifted Children with AD/HD, Asperger Syndrome, and Other Learning Deficits
• Differently Wired: Raising an Exceptional Child in a Conventional World
• Ungifted: Intelligence Redefined
• Twice-Exceptional Gifted Children: Understanding, Teaching, and Counseling Gifted Students
• Wired to Create: Unraveling the Mysteries of the Creative Mind
• Special Populations in Gifted Education: Understanding Our Most Able Students from Diverse Backgrounds
• Effective Program Practices for Underserved Gifted Students: A CEC-TAG Educational Resource
• Designing Services and Programs for High-Ability Learners: A Guidebook for Gifted Education