Twice-Exceptional and Special Populations of Gifted Students

by Susan Baum

• ISBN13: 9781412904322
• ISBN10: 1412904323
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2004-03-06
• Publisher: Corwin Pr

Summary

The expert guide to meeting the needs of twice-exceptional and other at-risk gifted students! Special learning needs, cultural expectations, and issues of poverty greatly complicate the identification of gifts and talents among at-risk students. And traditional gifted programs fail to fully address the unique needs of these special populations. Twice-Exceptional and Special Populations of Gifted Students offers critical insights and promising practices designed to prevent these high-potential, at-risk students from falling through the cracks. Key features include: Susan Bauma??s thorough synopsis of the critical issues affecting twice-exceptional students and other special gifted populations Strategies for identifying giftedness masked by gender, cultural, economic, and/or behavioral issues Examples of appropriate programming options for a variety of high-potential, at-risk populations Applying the modifications, accommodations, and additional services suggested in this ready-reference, educators will at last be able to adequately nurture the academic, social, and emotional development of twice-exceptional and other special populations of gifted students. The ERGE Series: The National Association for Gifted Children series Essential Readings in Gifted Education is a 12-volume collection of seminal articles from Gifted Child Quarterly. Put the knowledge and power of more than 25 years of research on giftedness and talent into your hands with the leading theories, studies, and findings the experts in the field have to offer.

Table of Contents

About the Editors

Series Introduction - Sally M. Reis

Introduction to Twice-Exceptional and Special Populations of Gifted Students - Susan Baum

1. An Enrichment Program for Gifted Learning Disabled Students - Susan Baum

2. Compensation Strategies Used by High-Ability Students With Learning Disabilities Who Succeed in College - Sally M. Reis, Joan M. McGuire, and Terry W. Neu

3. Gifted Students With Attention Deficits: Fact and/or Fiction? Or, Can We See the Forest for the Trees? - Susan Baum, F. Richard Olenchak, and Steven V. Owen

4. Gifted Children With Asperger's Syndrome - Maureen Neihart

5. We Can't Change What We Don't Recognize: Understanding the Special Needs of Gifted Females - Sally M. Reis

6. Gifted and Gay: A Study of the Adolescent Experience - Jean Sunde Peterson, Heather Rischar

7. The Rural Gifted Child - Howard H. Spicker, W. Thomas Southern, and Beverly I. Davis

8. Gifted Dropouts: The Who and the Why - Joseph S. Renzulli, Sunghee Park

Index