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

✍ Scribed by Scott Barry Kaufman (editor)

• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Year: 2018
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 385
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

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.

✦ Table of Contents

Cover
Half title
Twice Exceptional
Copyright
Contents
Acknowledgments
About the Editor
Contributors
Introduction
Part I Identification
1. Finding and Serving Twice Exceptional Students: Using Triaged Comprehensive Assessment and Protections of the Law
2. Using a Positive Lens: Engaging Twice Exceptional Learners
3. Finding Hidden Potential: Toward Best Practices in Identifying Gifted Students with Disabilities
4. Misconceptions about Giftedness and the Diagnosis of ADHD and Other Mental Health Disorders
5. Knowns and Unknowns about Students with Disabilities Who Also Happen to Be Intellectually Gifted
Part II Supporting Twice Exceptional Students
6. How We Can Recognize and Teach Twice-​ or Multi-​Exceptional Students
7. Twice Exceptionality and Social-​Emotional Development: One Label, Many Facets
8. Advocating for Twice Exceptional Students
9. It Takes a Team: Growing Up 2e
10. Educating the Twice Exceptional Child: Creating Strong School-​to-​Home Collaborative Partnerships
Part III Special Populations
11. Attention Divergent Hyperactive Giftedness: Taking the Deficiency and Disorder out of the Gifted/​ADHD Label
12. Appreciating and Promoting Social Creativity in Youth with Asperger’s Syndrome
13. The Spectrum of Twice Exceptional and Autistic Learners and Suggestions for Their Learning Styles
14. Visuo-​Spatial Skills in Atypical Readers: Myths, Research, and Potential
15. Gifted Dyslexics: MIND-​Strengths, Visual Thinking, and Creativity
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
17. Where the Rubber Meets the Road: Supporting the Educational Success of Twice Exceptional African American Students
Part IV Models
18. Bridges Academy: A Strengths-​Based Model for 2e
19. Integration and Dynamic Adaptation in the Formation of a Novel 2e School Model
Index