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  • Developmental: Twice Exceptional

    Improving Executive Skills through Mathematics
    This article provides information on improving executive skills through mathematics. ALEKS, a web-based math tutoring and assessment program, is covered in detail.
    Understanding the 2e Brain
    In this article, Dr. Michael Postma does a great job of discussing how typical child development impacts the presentation of twice-exceptionality and vice versa.

  • Parenting: Tips for Parents

    Tips for Parents: Learning and the Brain
    This Tips for Parents article is from a seminar hosted by Colleen Willard-Holt, who discusses the basics of the brain, including memory, the effects of stress, sleep-cycles and the nature vs. nurture argument.
    Tips for Parents: The Gifted Brain & Learning: At Home and at School
    This Tips for Parents article is from a seminar hosted by Barbara Clark, Ed.D., who provides ideas based on findings from neuroscience studies that can help parents understand and nurture children whose behaviors and needs are significantly beyond those usually found with children in their age range.

  • Support Materials: Book Reviews

    A Mind at a Time
    BOOK REVIEW (Davidson Institute) - Are you interested in gaining a deeper understanding of the learning process? If so, A Mind at a Time by Dr. Mel Levine is just the book you are looking for! Based on years of experience as a developmental-behavioral pediatrician and director of the Clinical Center for the Study of Development and Learning at the University of North Carolina Medical School, Dr. Levine has developed his own model that dissects the learning process into eight neurodevelopmental systems: attention control, memory, language, spatial ordering, sequential ordering, motor, higher thinking, and social thinking. His theory is that struggling students are experiencing a breakdown in one or more of these areas.

  • Support Materials: Interviews

    Interview with Janette Boazman on character development and the differences in cognitive development between boys and girls
    The following Q&A on character development was written by Janette Boazman, Ph.D., an assistant professor of education and the chair of education at the University of Dallas. Her research focuses on the academic and psychological factors that lead to academic and career success, and to the personal well-being of the gifted and talented in K-12 schools, college, and across the lifespan.