The Council for Exceptional Children (CEC) is the largest international professional organization dedicated to improving the educational success of individuals with disabilities and/or gifts and talents. 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.
Amend Psychological Services provides comprehensive psychological services including assessment and evaluation, consultations, counseling, and therapy for children, adolescents, and their families. Populations served in our practice include: students with LD, ADHD, or other learning and behavior difficulties; gifted/talented students; special needs students; twice exceptional learners; children experiencing life adjustments associated with divorce, grief and loss, and other family transitions; and, children with chronic illness or chronic pain such as migraines.
The National Center for Learning Disabilities, Inc. (NCLD) offers this $10,000 scholarship annually to one high school senior with an identified learning disability (LD) who plans to pursue an undergraduate degree. Check the website for applicant qualifications and deadlines. Some qualifications include financial need and a grade point average of 3.0 or higher.
The Learning Disabilities Association (LDA) of America website includes information and resources on learning disabilities, including those involoving a social component, such as autism and Asperger syndrome. LDA is dedicated to a world in which
all individuals with learning disabilities are empowered to thrive and participate fully in society;
the incidence of learning disabilities is reduced; and
learning disabilities are universally understood and effectively addressed.
The directory provides free referral for a liscenced eye doctor who provides vision therapy. This directory also offers advice for people who have questions about ADHD/ADD and how it relates to vision problems.
This organization provides information about disabilities in children and youth; programs and services for infants, children, and youth with disabilities; IDEA, the nation's special education law; and research-based information on effective practices for children with disabilities with a special focus is children and youth (birth to age 22).
Parent Education Network (PEN) is a statewide coalition in Pennsylvania of parents of children representing a range of disabilities and ages. PEN believes strongly that knowledgeable, skillful parents impact effectively on early intervention, special education, and adult services for their child with disabilities.
Assessment is at the center of all good teaching, and this book is designed to provide a clear, comprehensive guide to the assessment of students with mild disabilities. This book will give you both an understanding of the assessment process and the concrete, practical skills necessary to assess special students successfully so that you can teach them well.
Planning for college can be one of the biggest moments in a teen’s life, but for those students with learning and other disabilities, the college experience can be fraught with frustration, uncertainty, and lowered self-confidence. Written by Cynthia G. Simpson, Ph.D. and Vicky G. Spencer, Ph.D., this book offers teens the confidence, strategies, and guidance they need to effectively choose a college, get prepared for university life, and make the most of their collegiate experience. Special sections also discuss ADHD and Asperger’s syndrome. Click here to read a review of this book.
This book serves as a great primer for a mostly unheard of, frequently misunderstood learning condition. Many consider these bright, academically underachieving kids a conundrum. Many are labeled unmotivated, lazy, or troublemakers. The children are bored, confused, or unable to organize themselves enough to succeed in today's classrooms.
Presented in an easy to read format, this book by Temple Grandin and Kate Duffy focuses on using one's strengths, natural talents, and special interests to gain employment and lead successful lives.
Starr Cline and Diane Schwartz focus on how teachers can help their students reach their full potential. The authors discuss reasons for the failure to integrate gifted education into the fabric of the school and the relationships between multiple intelligences philosophy and the curriculum.
Find strategies for handling various learning difficulties and get a more complete understanding of why your child acts the way he/she does. This book presents a way of thinking about many of the common forms of learning disorders, their recognition, their implications, and their treatment. Specifically, chapters 2-7 describe the areas in which neurodevelopmental dysfunction may hinder learning and performance in school. There are also sections on "demystification," which provides a process that adults can use when talking to their children about the nature of their learning disorders as well as their strengths.
This text's research is included in every book and research paper concerning "Twice-Exceptional," "Gifted/Learning Disabled," or underserved gifted populations that has followed. It is a must have for all researchers, parents, and or teachers who are concerned about or deal with highly able students that have mitigating problems.
Written by Thomas G. West, this book is a hopeful, fascinating study of gifted and profoundly gifted people with learning disabilities and visual-spatial strengths. West's premise is that the things that seem like disabilities to us now at this time in history, may, in the future, be strengths in an increasingly visual world. West also discusses the influence of computers as both creative and compensatory tools for twice-exceptional gifted people.
This book is a comprehensive resource for selecting the right college for students with learning disabilities.
Janet W. Lerner and Frank Kline provide a comprehensive overview of this complex subject by covering theoretical approaches within the field, procedures for assessing and evaluating students, skills in the art of clinical teaching, teaching methods and strategies, and requirements of special education laws.
This award-winning book by the author of The Difficult Child shows parents how to deal with their child's, or adolescent's, emotional problems, from aggression to inattention to lack of friends. Topics covered include: lack of friends; poor self-image; sibling rivalry; hyperactivity; sadness and fearfulness; eating problems; nervous habits; aggressive behavior; defiance; sleep problems; lying; and learning disabilities.
This book provides a comprehensive overview of Response to Intervention (RtI) frameworks that include gifted students. One of the books featured in the CEC-TAG Educational Resource series, the book incorporates national, state, and local RtI models and how gifted learners can be included within these frameworks. Specific attention is given to addressing the needs of students who are twice-exceptional and to culturally responsive practices.
This is the classic text written by the occupational therapist/psychologist who developed sensory integration theory and intervention.
This book is a great educational resource for parents, educators or counselors of intelligent children who face learning difficulties. The authors, Weinfield, Barnes-Robinson, Jeweler and Shevitz, provide useful, practical advice for helping smart kids with learning challenges succeed in school Click here to read a review of this book.
Parents and teachers of gifted students with learning disabilities should be grateful for this definitive work on "conundrum kids" - the superb writer who can't add, the talented speech maker who can't write legibly. Chapters on young children provide practical suggestions and ideas for parents trying to decide when the child should start school and teachers trying to cope. The work also covers students up through college and deals with the topics of visual learning, motor functioning, auditory learning, language and learning, and psychological problems. Strategies for dealing with standardized tests and conquering the world of college are also included. Click here to read a review of this book.
How is the body involved in learning from infancy through adulthood? Physical activity is crucial. This book by Carla Hannaford explains why and gives simple physical exercises that can increase anyone's learning power immediately. It explores brain development, neurological effects of TV, nutrition, stress, and causes of the growing plague of learning disabilities.
The original Son-Rise (1976) described the family trauma of the author, his wife Samahria and their son Raun, who had been diagnosed as autistic, mentally retarded and untreatable. Rather than relegating Raun to permanent institutionalization, the Kaufmans designed a program of their own, which provided intensive therapy on a rigorous schedule that changed all of their lives. Did Raun continue to progress? In this book, that question is answered not only by the parents and extended family but also by Raun himself, now a college student and a participant in the family's educational foundation, The Option Institute and Fellowship.
Mary McHugh writes about her experience growing up with a sibling with a disability, and interviews many other people in the same situation. This is a book for those with disabled siblings. However, it also looks at the attention and time parents spend on a child who is "different", as gifted children can be considered, and how siblings of that child can come to terms with that and build a healthy, special relationship with the sibling.
Authors, Tina Newman and Robert Sternberg, provide the reader with a broader conceptualization of the gifted/LD learner to include students who have gifts in other areas than high IQ and who would benefit from being identified and having their talents nurtured.
In this book, Kevin D. Besnoy, Ph.D takes an in-depth look at the various learning disabilities and difficulties some gifted students face, provides practical tips for accommodating and planning instruction for these students, and gives an overview of federal law related to this population.
This Gifted Child Today reader by Susan Johnson and James Kendrick is filled with practical classroom ideas, discussions of identification and classroom management. Both authors are professors at Baylor University in the fields Educational Psychology and Communications.
A recognized expert on gifted education and teaching in mixed-ability classrooms, Susan Winebrenner, presents practical, easy-to-use teaching methods, strategies and tips. Her tips help teachers differentiate the curriculum in all subject areas to meet the needs of all learners-including those labeled "slow," "remedial," or "LD," students of poverty, English language learners, and others who struggle to learn.
A parenting book for those who have kids ages 3 to 13, this is a guide offering advice for dealing with children's difficult behavior and hot button issues including biting, tantrums, cheating, bad friends, inappropriate clothing, bullying, sex, drugs, peer pressure and much more. Each of the 101 challenging parenting issues includes specific step-by-step solutions and advice that is age appropriate. Chapter 7, titled "Special Needs", features information on ADD, Autism, Gifted, Learning Disabilities and more.
First published in 1995, and written from personal experience, the author offers unique insights into the learning problems and stigmas faced by dyslexics and gives his own tried and tested techniques for overcoming and correcting it demonstrating that sufferers have special talents of perception and imagination.
This book from husband and wife team Brock Eide, M.D. and Fernette Eide, M.D., ofers this informative, clinical aid to labeling and dealing with various "brain-based learning challenges." Each of the 11 chapters focuses on a single type of learning system and the challenges that affect it.
This is one of two workbooks by authors DeFina and Feifer which discuss both language-based and non-language-based disorders from a brain-based education model of learning. They are intended for school psychologists, occupational therapists, speech pathologists, special educators and school administrators. They use cutting-edge research from the neurosciences to understand the various brain mechanisms involved in written disorders and reading disorders in children.
This book tells the stories of eight people who never stopped trying. From humiliation in school and the anxiety of coping with everyday life unable to read street signs and menus, to shopping, driving, and working, these people lived in a world of dashed hopes and dreams--regardless of outward appearances--until, with help from Dr. Barbara Guyer, they discovered their learning disability and unlocked their true gifts.
The authors provide help for students to learn how to organize time, set goals, stand up for one's self, cope with testing and more. This book gives many practical suggestions that may help a student who feels like a loser feel more like a winner!
Authors Neihart, Reis, Robinson, Moon offer an examination of the essential topics teachers, parents, and researchers need to know about the social and emotional development of gifted children. Instigated by a task force convened by the National Association for Gifted Children and written by leading scholars in the field of gifted education, the book includes chapters on peer pressure and social acceptance, resilience, delinquency, and underachievement. The book also summarizes several decades worth of research on special populations, including minority, learning-disabled, and gay and lesbian gifted students. Click here to read a review of this book.
First published in 1990, this survival guide has helped countless young people labeled “learning disabled”—and the adults who care about them. Meanwhile, laws have changed and technology has advanced. This revised and updated edition retains the best of the original edition: the warmth, affirmation, and solid information kids need to know they’re smart and can learn, they just learn differently.
The National Education Association (NEA) published this book to assist educators, school districts and parents who are working to meet the needs of children who are both gifted and have special needs or learning disabilities. Developed by a workgroup of experts in gifted education and special education, this compilation illustrates the importance of awareness, knowledge and proper identification guidelines.
In this book by author Joan Green titled, The Ultimate Guide to Assistive Technology in Special Education, a broad overview of the uses of assistive technology are presented before helping readers zero in on powerful, cutting-edge technology tools they can use to improve students' areas of weakness as well as to compensate for them.
In their book, Susan Baum and Steven Owen offer valuable information on identifying and meeting the needs of gifted and learning disabled (GLD) young people. They also stress the fact that these students require special attention, and it is vital that schools pay attention to the gifts as well as the learning difficulties.
This book by editors Susan Baum and Sally M. Reis, is from the Essential Readings in Gifted Education Series and addresses how special learning needs, cultural expectations and issues of poverty greatly complicate the identification of gifts and talents among at-risk students. Key topics include strategies for identifying giftedness masked by gender, cultural, economic, and/or behavioral issues
This book titled, Twice-Exceptional Gifted Children: Understanding, Teaching, and Counseling Gifted Students, provides an overview of who these students are, how teachers can tap into their strengths and weaknesses, and what educational strategies should be implemented to help these students succeed in school and beyond.
This book edited by Kiesa Kay brings together perspectives from educators, parents, researchers, and students about what works and what doesn't for twice exceptional students. Many asynchronous learners exist in the profoundly gifted population, and in addition to chapters by well-known researchers, the book contains heartfelt essays by parents and teens.
This multi-sensory grammar teaching program provides full instruction in the fundamentals of English grammar for the elementary and early middle school grade levels. Particularly recommended for twice-exceptional gifted children, especially those with dyslexia and other language learning disabilities. Advanced Winston Grammar kit is available for the junior high and high school grades.
In this comprehensive book, readers will find clear, concise answers to frequently asked questions about IEPs. Learn what the law says about: IEP teams and meetings; parental rights and consent; steps in developing the IEP; placement, transition, assistive technology; and, strategies to resolve disagreements. Click here to read a review of this book.
This website is home to a bi-monthly publication about twice-exceptional children -- those who are gifted and have learning or attention difficulties. Readers will find book reviews, products and profiles of experts, service providers, websites, and email discussion lists. Additional features include news from the 2e field, such as conference coverage, new research findings, information on new medications and a survey that 2e: Twice-Exceptional Newsletter conducted about the needs of gifted kids who also have learning difficulties such as AD/HD, Asperger’s, dyslexia, etc.
This academy is a one-of-a-kind school for bright children with unique learning differences. Many are gifted in specific intellectual and academic areas, but their giftedness is not perceived by educators because they aren't able to achieve in traditional academic environments with traditional methods, materials and techniques. Churchill Academy is open to any student regardless of national origin, race, sex or religion.
Hampshire Country School is a private boarding school for boys ages 9-15, located in Rindge, New Hampshire. The school is for boys of high ability who need a personal environment with an unusual amount of adult attention and structure. Hampshire Country School can provide appropriate structure and support for certain students with nonverbal learning disabilities, Tourette Syndrome, ADHD, Asperger Syndrome, and other disorders; but it is not a treatment program. It is designed instead to involve and educate the bright, active, and interested side of each child rather than to dwell on the student's limitations and difficulties.
This is a private school and clinic in operation for more than 30 years specializing in educational programs for traditional students and students whose language processing deficits, other learning difficulties, or individual learning styles impede their academic achievement. We create supportive, individualized academic programs in reading, writing, spelling, and mathematics to help students improve the skills that will enable them to reach their full potential.
Riverside School is a non-sectarian, non-profit, private coeducational day school, approved by the state of Virginia as a proprietary school. Riverside school provides a multi-sensory, structured and rational education for children with specific learning disabilities in grades 1-8.
Advanced Brain Technologies (ABT) is the creator of innovative brain-based products and technologies for therapeutic, educational and self-improvement benefits. It combines extensive clinical experience with the latest neuroscience and music research to create products, programs, and services that enhance health, learning and productivity. Based on more than 30 years of clinical research with thousands of individuals at the National Academy for Child Development and with experts in various fields, ABT's growing family of brain-based programs is created to help people reach their fullest potential.
Dictation software suitable for children. Allows you to "train" the computer to recognize your voice. You can begin using it with just an hour or so of training.
Richard Lavoie shows the audience what children with learning disabilities experience everyday. Strategies for working more effectively with children who struggle are available at the end.
This software can be used by children, adults and therapists in treating a variety of speech, communication, and cognitive impairments.
Lindamood-Bell is an organization dedicated to enhancing human learning. They were founded by the authors of critically acclaimed programs that develop the sensory-cognitive processes that underlie reading, spelling, language comprehension, math, and visual motor skills. Their process-based education programs are for individuals ranging from severely learning disabled to academically gifted–ages 5 years through adult.
Pro-Ed, Inc. is a leading publisher of nationally standardized tests, resource and reference texts, curricular and therapy materials, and professional journals.
This website offers (for sale) a program of teaching techniques that is claimed to overcome dyslexia. There are two versions of the program, a Senior Version for 10-year-olds through adults, and a Junior Version for youngsters in the second, third and fourth grades. The Reading from Scratch program, enabling a child to work happily at his intellectual level, can literally turn his life around.
This web page offers special education article links about laws and advocacy strategies.
Welcome to Stevenson Learning Skills, the company that publishes the Stevenson Reading Program, Semple Math and other materials for teaching essential skills to students. Our methods are unusual and innovative. We use established techniques like mnemonics (memory aids) and multisensory instruction in imaginative new ways. The materials accommodate common learning problems, such as attention deficits, phonological processing difficulties, memory weakness and sequencing confusion. In addition to publishing, we offer training and consult services. The Stevenson Language Skills Program covers reading, spelling and language arts. Semple Math teaches arithmetic operations, place value, word problems and more. Additional materials for teaching grammar, cursive writing and telling time is also available.
This website describes an innovative program that supports children, teachers, parents, and therapists to choose appropriate strategies to change or maintain states of alertness. Although this program initially was intended for children with attention and learning difficulties, ages 8-12, it has been adapted for preschool through adult and for a variety of disabilities.
Time Timer LLC is taking the idea of a simple, visual depiction of elapsed time and turning it into a line of products that helps solve time perception problems. These proven products are so easy to use that even young children and those with learning disabilities can monitor their own timed activities.
This web page provides links to articles and resources about learning disabilities.
This blog, maintained by the publishers of the 2e: Twice-Exceptional Newsletter, shares news, events, and resources found by researchers in the area of twice-exceptionality. The 2e: Twice-Exceptional Newsletter is a bi-monthly electronic publication for those who raise, educate, and counsel high-ability children with learning issues such as AD/HD, dyslexia, Asperger's, and so forth.
This guide tells students: what an IEP is; why you need to be part of your IEP team; how to help write your IEP; and much, much more.
Founded in 1995, by pediatrician Dr. Mel Levine and financier Charles R. Schwab, All Kinds of Minds is a non-profit Institute that helps students who struggle with learning measurably improve their success in school and life by providing programs that integrate educational, scientific, and clinical expertise.
This web site is intended for the parents whose child has been diagnosed with Central Auditory Processing Disorder (CAPD) or suspect their child may have the disorder.
This is a list of key characteristics of gifted students are: visually impaired; hearing impaired; and physical disabilities.
This article looks at different learning disabilities and things to consider when highly gifted children are diagnosed as well as providing suggestions for accommodating these children.
This article discusses the common symptoms of dysgraphia and offers a variety of accommodations and modifications that can be implemented to help students with the disability achieve.
This website is a place where successes, personal triumphs, and challenges can be shared. It is a place where people can learn from each other and be encouraged.
This website offers articles relating to gifted education, home schooling, twice exceptionalities, college and career planning, and more.
"Facts-on-Hand" is an easy to read series on special education and the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA). IDEA is the nation's special education law. Under IDEA, if a child is found to be a child with a disability, he or she is eligible for special education and related services. Read this article for more information.
This website provides users a global community that integrates information, resources, and communication opportunities for people with cognitive and other disabilities, their families, and those that provide them services and support.
This article discusses three subgroups of twice-exceptional students whose dual exceptionality remains unacknowledged. The article also discusses the characteristics, identification, and curricular needs of these students.
This email discussion list is for families homeschooling gifted/special needs children.
Since 2000, the Center has served as a national clearinghouse on postsecondary education for individuals with disabilities, managed by The George Washington University Graduate School of Education and Human Development. The Center provides everything a student, parent, educator or counselor would need to know about students with disabilities in college – their rights, responsibilities, etc. The HEATH Resource Center gathers, develops and disseminates information in the form of resource papers, fact sheets, website directories, newsletters, and resource materials.
"Children who paint or write in cursive, but who are unable to write legibly and consistently, in spite of repeated admonitions, require special approaches to the solution of their special difficulties. These are youngsters who are unable to properly form their letters, who have difficulty keeping their letters on the line, who may not seem to understand the relative sizes of letters, who either crowd letters within words together, or who space so poorly that it is almost impossible to determine where one word ends and another begins." Read this article for more information.
The goals and objectives or benchmarks are the core of the IEP. As a parent, you play an important role in deciding what will be written. Read this article for more information.
Wrightslaw has provided a web page for your questions about IEPs Find articles, law and regulations, tactics and strategies, tips, books, and free publications about IEPs on this page.
Founded in 1967, the Integra Foundation Integra is a Children's Mental Health Center leading in the treatment of vulnerable children and youth with learning disabilities. The health center is dedicated to improving social, emotional and behavioral outcomes through a range of specialized therapeutic, family-centered services, community education and research.
This online article by Tracy Landon and Linda Oggel discusses how seemingly lazy students may indeed not be lazy, but suffer from executive dysfunction. Executive dysfunction is a problem in the frontal lobes of the brain. Students suffering from this dysfunction can have trouble in areas such as planning, organization and self-monitoring. Tips for teachers are offered to help these students get themselves organized.
LD OnLine provides parents and teachers of children with learning disabilities with accurate, authoritative information. Sometimes, learning disabilities are experienced by extremely gifted people who have above average abilities in academic areas. Find articles, book recommendations, a Q&A section, and discussion forums.
This website is a valuable resource for those who either parent or teach children with learning difficulties. In addition to the blog support and podcasts, is an extensive page of ADHD information, resources and links.
This website is devoted to advocating for gifted children with learning disabilities. Jimmy Kilpatrick and his team are experienced in the field of education and are able to provide advocacy, research, and organizational support . LDadvocates does not provide legal advice.
This website contains information about learning styles and Multiple Intelligence (MI). Although useful to everyone, it is especially helpful for people with learning disabilities and Attention Deficit Disorder.
This is a brief article on the LD Online website about the problems some dyslexics may encounter with mathematics. The article touches on the fact that those teaching math to dyslexic students need to have an understanding of "the nature of dyslexia and how it affects learning, not only in written language, but also in mathematics."
Many gifted and talented children (and adults) are being mis-diagnosed by psychologists, psychiatrists, pediatricians, and other health care professionals. These common mis-diagnoses stem from an ignorance among professionals about specific social and emotional characteristics of gifted children which are then mistakenly assumed by these professionals to be signs of pathology. In some situations where gifted children have received a correct diagnosis, giftedness is still a factor that must be considered in treatment, and should really generate a dual diagnosis.
This article link by Meredith Warshaw discusses how some disabilities (mostly learning disabilities) can mimic motivation problems. Warshaw has extensive experience working with "twice-exceptional" students. This is not a complete discussion of the subject, but offers a glimpse at how a handful of disabilities can be misinterpreted.
The NSTTAC helps states build capacity to support and improve transition planning, services, and outcomes for youth with disabilities and disseminate information. It also provides technical assistance on scientifically-based research practices, with an emphasis on building and sustaining state-level infrastructures of support for youth with disabilities.
Neurolearning is using knowledge about a child's unique brain-related strengths and learning differences to develop strategies for successful learning. Neurolearning is for all learners - gifted, visual, and auditory learners, children with dyslexia, attention deficit disorders, and those with special challenges like extreme prematurity, autism spectrum disorders, or difficulties related to impaired visual, auditory, or sensory processing.
Hosted on Wrightslaw.com, this is a policy letter about special ed eligibility that was published by the Office of Special Education Programs (OSEP) in 1995. This letter clarifies several key points: eligibility teams may consider support provided by parents; children with high IQs are not excluded from special education eligibility; and evaluations must include testing of the seven areas mentioned in the special ed regulations.
This MAAP Services website article was written in response to the growing concern about, and interest in, Pervasive Developmental Disorders (PDD). Author Luke Y. Tsai, M.D. answers some of the most frequently asked questions regarding this disorder and provides resources for information and support. The history of PDD, the five types of PDD and a wealth of other information on the subject are all included.
For people with attention problems, paying attention in a high stimuli environment, such as watching a 3-ring circus or playing a video game, is not an issue. However, focusing and concentrating on tasks as simple as reading and comprehending a book or memo, listening to a teacher or in a meeting, and writing with little effort can seem impossible. Play Attention is a patented, dynamic integrated learning system built on NASA-proven technology that allows you to train your brain to gain focus, improve concentration, pay attention, and help overcome the challenges associated with lack of focus and inattentiveness.
Schwab Learning is a non-profit dedicated to providing reliable, parent-friendly information from experts and parents. It aspires to help kids with learning disabilities (LD) and Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (AD/HD) lead satisfying and productive lives in an environment that recognizes, values and supports the unique attributes of every child.
This website is an excellent resource for those interested in a variety of fields related to special education. With a collection of links for resources in specific fields such as learning disabilities, behavior disorders and more. The information on this website is continually modified and updated.
Hosted on the Internet Special Education Resources website, this extensive directory includes special education advocacy services offering help on everything from legal issues to Estate Planning for Special Needs families.
There are a series of detailed tips for teachers on how to deal with the challenge that many gifted students face with learning or with social disorders. There is also a list of methods on how to facilitate the gifted abilities of students - not focusing solely on their disabilities.
This language-free format makes the TONI3 ideal for evaluating subjects who are difficult to test with confidence or precision. It is particularly well suited for individuals who are known or believed to have disorders of communication or thinking such as aphasia, dyslexia, language disabilities, learning disabilities, speech problems, specific academic deficits, and similar conditions that may be the result of mental retardation, deafness, developmental disabilities, autism, cerebral palsy, stroke, disease, head injury, or other neurological impairment.
Abilities Tested: Intelligence, Aptitude, Abstract Reasoning, Problem Solving
The Children of the Code project (www.childrenofthecode.org) offers an interview with Dr. Sally Shaywitz, professor of Pediatric Neurology at Yale University and author of "Overcoming Dyslexia". She is a dedicated and passionate neuroscientist focused on helping children and families overcome the pain and strain of reading difficulties.
The state of Maryland has adopted into law and the Montgomery County Public Schools (MCPS)
Board of Education has adopted into its policy the key concepts of the defi nition of gifted and talented
students originally stated in the Jacob K. Javits Gifted and Talented Students Education Act (1988). This guidebook meets that requirement of the state and county policy. It does so with the goal of helping
to increase the number of students realizing their true potential.
The purpose of this site is to bring to light some of the unique and phenomenal talents of those who are nothing short of extraordinary and unfortunately, many times overlooked in regards to their talents. This site also provides information on mental and emotional issues unique to gifted individuals and provides an overview of gifted characteristics in general.
This is such a great resource to help parents understand tests and measurements. It talks about evidence and law of testing, the process of educational decision-making, statistics and general principles. It also discusses the bell curve and understanding the test data. This is a very in-depth article.
This website has a large collection resources for and about twice exceptional children. Find stories and personal accounts, parent support, and information for professionals.
This article from the Inland Empire Dyslexia Branch discusses in detail what dysgraphia is, specific symptoms and misunderstandings of dysgraphia.
This website for parents, educators, and advocates provides information about special education law, education law and advocacy for children with disabilities. Wrightslaw has thousands of articles, cases, and free resources about dozens of topics: IDEA 2004, Special Education, Law, Advocacy and Training & Seminars.