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If this is your first visit, click here for a guide to the site. This site is named after the book Uniquely Gifted: Identifying and Meeting the Needs of the Twice-Exceptional Student, edited by Kiesa Kay. Twice-exceptional children (that is, intellectually gifted children with special needs such as AD/HD, learning disabilities, Asperger Syndrome, etc.) have a hard time of it in our education system - because their giftedness can mask their special needs and their special needs hide their giftedness, they are often labeled as "lazy", "unmotivated", "not trying". Many people don't even realize that a child can be both gifted and learning disabled; however, Linda Silverman, Ph.D., the director of the Gifted Development Center has found that fully 1/6 of the gifted children tested at the GDC have a learning difference of some type.
In addition to being special needs educational advisor for families with twice-exceptional children and Contributing Editor to the new publication 2e: Twice-Exceptional Newsletter, I am co-founder and co-listowner of the GT-Special email list for families with gifted/special needs children - founded because my co-listowner and I needed a place where we could talk with other parents about our uniquely gifted children. I am also founder and listowner for GT-Spec-Home, for families homeschooling gifted/special needs children.
NEW: Uniquely Gifted and GHF- Gifted Homeschoolers are working together to bring understanding to the world about gifted and twice-exceptional students. GHF is providing some technical and content help on this website now.
Please note: Being listed here is not per se an endorsement of any particular site or email list. I have included annotations for those sites or lists that I am familiar with and strongly recommend.
In The Challenge of the Highly Gifted/Special Needs Child, I discuss special issues associated with the combination of being highly gifted and having learning disabilities.
Someone on GT-Special once asked what listmembers considered the ten most crucial pieces of advice for raising a gifted/special needs child. Top 10 Pieces of Advice for Parents of Uniquely Gifted Children was my response.
Gifted children with special needs can look like they are lazy, oppositional, or having motivation problems. If this describes a child you know, read Motivation Problem or Hidden Disability?
Pain, Waste, and the Hope for a Better Future...: "Invisible Disabilities" in the Educational System by Margi Nowak
If Gifted = Asynchronous Development, then Gifted/Special Needs = Asynchrony Squared by Lee Singer
It can be difficult for siblings of special needs children to understand that parents are not favoring the special needs child, that he or she truly has severe learning issues, yet at the same time to know that we empathize with their frustrations. In Siblings of Twice-Exceptional Children, I make some suggestions for dealing with these issues.
There are important emotional aspects to learning disabilities that are often neglected. In Understanding Children's Hearts and Minds: Emotional Functioning and Learning Disabilities Jean Cheng Gorman this important connection.
Special Education or Gifted? It May Be Hard To Tell by Susan Winebrenner discusses the difficulties of getting schools to address twice-exceptional children's strengths as well as their weaknesses.
The ERIC Clearinghouse on Disabilities and Gifted Education has a page of
links to information on gifted education/dual exceptionalities, including an
excellent FAQ (Frequently Asked Questions list)
ERIC Digest E574 is the article Dual Exceptionalities by Colleen Willard-Holt.
Differential diagnosis is a difficult issue in gifted kids. Two articles
addressing the issue are:
Diagnosis Questions by Betty Maxwell
ADHD and Children Who Are Gifted by James T Webb and Diane Latimer
Deidre Lovecky, a psychologist who specializes in gifted/special needs children, has good article on Gifted Children with AD/HD. In addition, her new book, Different Minds: Gifted Children With AD/HD, Asperger Syndrome, and Other Learning Deficits, is well worth reading.
It's important to realize that there are great individual differences among gifted children, and that those who are most highly gifted may not "look" gifted in school. The article Exceptionally and Profoundly Gifted Students: An Underserved Population is an excellent introduction to this topic by Miraca Gross, a psychologist and researcher specializing in exceptionally gifted children.
Gifted Children with Learning Disabilities: A Review of the Issues by Linda Brody and Carol Mills discusses identification and interventions for twice-exceptional children.
The video, "How
Difficult Can This Be?: The F.A.T. City Workshop" by Rick Lavoie.
The description from the website says it all: "For kids with learning
disabilities, the classroom can be an intimidating place. In this workshop,
Richard Lavoie shows why. He leads a group of parents, educators, psychologists,
and children through a series of exercises that cause Frustration, Anxiety, and
Tension...feelings all too familiar to children with learning disabilities. By
dramatizing the classroom experience so vividly, Lavoie lets us see the world
through the eyes of a child. At the end of the workshop, participants discuss
strategies for working more effectively with learning disabled children."
Click here to see a video clip.
Overwhelmed by all the terminology and abbreviations? In addition to the
acronyms page at this site, there's an excellent
Dictionary for Parents of Children with Disabilities (in PDF format, you need
Adobe Acrobat
to read it) at
http://www.usd.edu/cd/dictionary/. It is also available as a website
(but may take a long time to load) at
There's a shorter "Glossary and Guide to Acronyms" (also in PDF) by Leslie Packer, Ph.D., at http://www.tourettesyndrome.net/Files/Glossary2002.pdf, along with a guide to medications at http://www.tourettesyndrome.net/Files/NIMH%20-%20medications.htm
The Building is the Web site of New Horizons for Learning, an international
education network focused on identifying, communicating, and helping to
implement effective teaching and learning strategies. The information provided
is especially useful to teachers, parents, and others interested in helping all
students to learn more effectively.
Resource Room - The Resource Room is a website with tools for learning,
especially for people who learn differently or who have "learning difficulties"
or specific "learning disabilities."
SERI- Special Education Resources on the Internet (SERI) is a collection of
Internet accessible information resources of interest to those involved in the
fields related to Special Education. This collection exists in order to make
on-line Special Education resources more easily and readily available in one
Fernette Eide, M.D. is a wonderful neurologist who specializes in gifted/special
needs children. Her website has interesting articles with some great fMRI
Council for Exceptional Children - The Council for Exceptional Children (CEC)
is an international professional organization dedicated to improving educational
outcomes for individuals with exceptionalities, students with disabilities,
and/or the gifted. CEC advocates for appropriate governmental policies, sets
professional standards, provides professional development, advocates for
individuals with exceptionalities, and helps professionals obtain conditions and
resources necessary for effective professional practice.
Parenting Special Needs at About.com
LD Online is always a good starting point for information
LD Resources
DRM Guide to Disability Resources On the Internet
All Kinds of Minds: a non-profit institute for the understanding of
differences in learning
Dr. Mel Levine s site - a different take on things
Schwab Foundation for Learning offers a wide range of services for parents
and educators to provide information, support and resources to improve the lives
of students with learning differences.
Learning Disabilities Association of America: a national, non-profit
Hello Friend/Ennis William Cosby Foundation works to help people with
dyslexia and other language-based learning disabilities.
NICHCY: The National Information Center for Children and Youth with
Disabilities is the national information and referral center that provides
information on disability-related issues for families, educators, and other
professionals, with a special emphasis on birth to 22 years. Site includes many
papers that can be downloaded for free
The Gifted Development Center serves parents, schools, and advocacy groups
with information about identification, assessment, counseling, learning styles,
programs, presentations, and resources for gifted children and adults. In
addition to their other services, the GDC now has a
speaker's bureau.
The Learning Disabilities Association of Massachusetts (LDAM) is a non-
profit, volunteer organization including individuals with learning disabilities,
their families, and professionals dedicated to enhancing the quality of life for
all individuals with learning disabilities and their families, and to
alleviating the restricting effects of learning disabilities.
Educational Resources Information Center (ERIC) is a federally-funded
national information system that provides, through its 16 subject-specific
clearinghouses, associated adjunct clearinghouses, and support components, a
variety of services and products on a broad range of education-related issues.
AskERIC is a personalized Internet-based service providing education information
to teachers, librarians, counselors, administrators, parents, and anyone
interested in education throughout the United States and the world. AskERIC
encompasses the resources of the entire ERIC system and beyond, using the
subject expertise of the 16 ERIC Clearinghouses to respond to your education
To do further research on your own, the National Library of Medicine has a
free search engine for journal articles that you can use, called Pub Med.
Searching Pub Med will get you citations and abstracts (if they are available
for the article), and you can then order the full article if you wish.
LD/ADD Pride Online: Inspired by Deaf Pride, this site has been developed as
an interactive community resource for adults with learning disabilities (LD) and
Attention Deficit Disorder (ADD).
Enabling Our Children by Deborah Thorpe. "I hear it everyday. I belong to a parent support group for children with learning disabilities and ADHD, one of the largest Internet listserv groups for parent support for these disabilities. There seems to be a constant, reoccurring topic among our group: 'The teacher says I am enabling him to be the way he is' or 'The teacher says if we gave him more discipline he'd be fine.' Parents of children with invisible disabilities are constantly being blamed for their child's difficulties. We are easy targets."
Fighting Guilt by Charlotte Riggle. "Misplaced parental guilt is a monster I know all too well. Seducing you with what might have been, it wastes your time, erodes your confidence, devours your energy, and distracts you from what is which is the only thing you can do anything about."
My Mockingbird by Ruthie. "My son was reading Harper Lee's story To Kill a Mockingbird I was struck by how this wonderful story's metaphor applies to twice-exceptional children."
Welcome to Holland by Emily Perl Kingsley. "I am often asked to describe the experience of raising a child with a disability - to try to help people who have not shared that unique experience to understand it, to imagine how it would feel. It's like this......" Although written by the parent of a child with Down's Syndrome, it is applicable to all of us dealing with the emotional rollercoaster of parenting special-needs children.
The Positive Side of SED Classes, by Michael
(age 13). During a discussion on GT-Special, a teenager expressed concerns
about possibly getting an ED (Emotional Disorder) placement. In response,
listmember posted the following note from her son, who attends an SED school (shared with permission).
What's in a Name? DBD Marketing used to be called DysGraphic by Design. "There is an interesting story behind the name DysGraphic by Design, LLC. The story begins with a young boy diagnosed with dyslexia, named Danny..."
Tony - a poem about our kids, getting into trouble for being themselves.
Why a Bee? and a story .. Once upon a time the animals had a school. They had four subjects: running, climbing, flying, and swimming-and all animals took all subjects.
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text: Japan coach Masayoshi Manabe: "We expected this game to be tough. Our players were very concentrated, especially in the latter stages. I think this is why we won. Our goal for this World Championship is to finish in the top three, in order to do that we needed to win all our games in this first round."Japan player Saori Kimura: "We made many mistakes that led to a difficult match, but we kept our concentration until the end. I am satisfied to have won. Our team's objective for the first round was to win all the matches and we're happy to reach this goal. I feel the real competition will start in the second round, and I expect the difficult matches are waiting for us. We need to unite as a team and keep up our current rhythm.(On her preparation) "From yesterday my rhythm became good, and I saw the blockers well. This let me find spaces to place my shots."Japan player Kaori Inoue: "At the beginning I didn't play well but the team came together and we all played our roles and worked well.(On her two aces) "Before the game I knew the Serbians were strong on receiving long balls, so I took a little bit off my serve to adjust."Japan player Yukiko Ebata: "The Serbian blocking was really good and I had difficulty attacking, once on three consecutive points. It affected our confidence. In the fourth set I adjusted and tried to watch their blockers more closely in order to attack better."Serbia captain Jelena Nikolic: "It's very difficult to say something after this game that we lost 3-1, which we could have won 3-1. Each set was decided by one or two balls. It's painful to lose like this today, because we played very well. We gave them some easy points, and they knew what to do with them."Serbia coach Zoran Terzic: "First of all I would like to congratulate the Japan team, and to say after one long period today I am very satisfied and very proud of how my team played. We played one very, very good game and I'm very proud of my girls tonight.(On losing three sets over 25 points) "It's difficult to say what made the difference but I think that we lost those sets before, not in extra time because of so many easy balls, and Japan made points of those easy balls. This was the problem for us tonight. Nothing else.(On the team's serving) "We made a lot of mistakes especially in the first set. But overall I'm satisfied with our serving tonight."


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New York Times Summer Reading Recommendations
The gray lady recently revealed several Summer 2017 reading lists in mystery, horror, graphic novels, and more, including these 10 Macmillan titles:
True Crime (full list)
In his lively literary biography ARTHUR AND SHERLOCK: Conan Doyle and the Creation of Holmes, Michael Sims traces the real-life inspiration for the first "scientific detective" to the renowned Dr. Joseph Bell, a lecturer at the University of Edinburgh celebrated for his uncanny diagnostic observational skills. His methods were "quite easy, gentlemen," Dr. Bell would assure his students. "If you will only observe and put two and two together," you, too, could deduce a man's profession, family history and social status from the way he buttons his waistcoat.
Grace Humiston was an advocate for an earlier generation of lost and forgotten women, and her inspiring story demands a hearing. In MRS. SHERLOCK HOLMES: The True Story of New York City's Greatest Female Detective and the 1917 Missing Girl Case That Captivated a Nation, Brad Ricca makes a heroic case for Humiston, a lawyer and United States district attorney who forged a career of defending powerless women and immigrants. For her dogged work on the 1917 case of a missing girl that the police had given up on, the newspapers called her "Mrs. Sherlock Holmes."
Authors of true crime books have made a cottage industry out of analyzing what makes killers tick. Michael Cannell gives credit where credit is due in INCENDIARY: The Psychiatrist, the Mad Bomber, and the Invention of Criminal Profiling by profiling one of the pioneers, Dr. James A. Brussel, a New York psychiatrist who specialized in the criminal mind. After 28 attacks, Dr. Brussel, a Freudian psychiatrist who ministered to patients at Creedmoor state mental hospital, used "reverse psychology," a precursor of criminal profiling, to identify features of the bomber — his "sexuality, race, appearance, work history and personality type." Aside from an unseemly fight over the $26,000 reward money, the case was a genuine groundbreaker in criminal forensics.
Horror (full list)
Some horror novels, though, feel timeless whenever you happen to read them, and Kit Reed's wondrous new ghost story MORMAMA seems to me one of those. It's a haunted-house tale, set in Jacksonville, Fla., in which three elderly sisters, a young single mother, her 12-year-old son and an amnesiac drifter who might be related to them all, attempt to fend off the uneasy spirits also resident in the crumbling mansion they live in. Reed, who has been writing fiction of all kinds for nearly 60 years, certainly knows how to construct a traditional spooky tale, and she does that expertly in MORMAMA, alternating different voices (some living, some not), laying out complex family relationships over several generations, managing a complicated plot and then drawing everything together in a spectacular, and unexpectedly moving, conclusion.
Graphic Novels (full list)
Most of Guy Delisle's longer graphic novels to date, like PYONGYANG and BURMA CHRONICLES, have been memoirs of his travels. HOSTAGE is neither about the Canadian cartoonist's own experiences nor grounded in his canny observations of place: It's the story of Christophe André, who spent almost four months in 1997 as a hostage. Kidnapped from a Doctors Without Borders office in Nazran, Ingushetia, a Russian republic near Chechnya, where he was an administrator, he was taken to Grozny and handcuffed to a radiator next to a mattress in a darkened room. That was all André knew. He didn't speak his captors' language, got almost no information of any kind from them, and had no way of knowing when or how he might be freed.
It's usually a slight to argue that an artist "hasn't found their voice yet"; in the case of the restlessly versatile Jillian Tamaki, it's an endorsement. BOUNDLESS collects short stories that are so far apart from one another in tone and technique that they could almost pass for the work of entirely different artists. If Tamaki (the illustrator of the Book Review's By the Book feature) has a favorite storytelling strategy, it seems to be dreaming up some kind of odd artifact of mass culture and then examining the way people react to it. readmoreremove