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Tips for Parents: Twice Exceptional
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Sinclair, E.
Davidson Institute for Talent Development - Parent Seminar

Dr. Esther Sinclair offers seven brief tips on twice exceptionalities.

  1. It is important to ascertain if your 2E youngster requires accommodations/modifications to “even the playing field” or special education services. The special education scenario involves formal assessments and is much more difficult to access.
  2. More common 2E presentations include ADHD, processing deficits, and mild LD (particularly writing problems).
  3. ADHD recommendations include time management, organization skills, study skills, note taking, preferential seating, extended test time, alternate test formats.
  4. Professing deficits need to focus on cognitive fluency/efficiency, auditory memory (short term, long term, working) visual processing (memory, sequencing), executive function, speed, attention.
  5. Reading LD issues include fluency & comprehension.
  6. Writing LD issues include penmanship, mechanics (spelling, punctuation, sentence content), and organization skills (content, paragraph construction, topic sentences, linking expressions, transitions).
  7. Math LD issues include word problems and fluency.

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