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Article: Twice-exceptional: learning disabled and gifted. (research reflections).
- Article from:
- The Exceptional Parent
- Article date:
- September 1, 2002
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It's September and our children are heading back to school (whew!). I thought it appropriate in this back-to-school issue of EP to reflect on research that addresses a narrow but fascinating topic: children who are twice-exceptional, meaning that they have abilities in the gifted range as well as some significant learning challenges, and what parents and educators can do to help them.
Most school children can identify at least one famous person who had, or has, a disability (or two) but went on to achieve great things (e.g. Helen Keller, Stephen Hawking, Ludwig van Beethoven and Stevie Wonder). If you read EP's July, 2002 Research Reflections you know that Jim ...