My stellar wall by https://padlet.com/kelley_westerberg/om787ki06lgy Made with a creative frenzy en-us 2018-04-15 19:49:00 UTC 2026-02-25 09:44:07 UTC hello@padlet.com 10 Facts about Gifted and Twice Exceptional kelley_westerberg https://padlet.com/kelley_westerberg/om787ki06lgy/wish/251928232 1. The definition of gifted learners refers to learners who who give evidence of high achievement capability.

2. Twice exceptional students are gifted learners who have a co-ocurring disability.

3. Just because 2e students are gifted does not mean that they do not have other needs. Sometime their giftedness can mask their disability, but teachers must pay special attention to 2e students as to not overlook their areas of need.

4. 2e students are eligible for IEPs and 504 plans because of their disabilities.

5. For 2E students to succeed, both their giftedness and their challenges need to be addressed. They need to be challenged in areas in which they’re gifted. They also need support in the areas where they struggle, just like any other student with a learning or attention issue.

6. Programs designed for 2e students should meet both their gifted needs and disability needs. Both areas should be given attention at all times, one area is not more important than the other. 

7. Current data shows that 2e students are underrepresented in gifted classes, but this isn't because they aren't capable. 

8. 2e students were first identified in 1977, since then, meeting their needs has become a greater focus. 

9. Even though this group of students was first identified decades ago, schools tend to still under serve this group of students. 

10. Not all 2e students are gifted in the same areas and have disabilities in the same areas. ]]> 2018-04-15 19:50:55 UTC https://padlet.com/kelley_westerberg/om787ki06lgy/wish/251928232 3 sources I found helpful: kelley_westerberg https://padlet.com/kelley_westerberg/om787ki06lgy/wish/251928591 1. Council for Exceptional Children website: https://www.cec.sped.org/Special-Ed-Topics/Who-Are-Exceptional-Learners

2. Understood.org website https://www.understood.org/en/friends-feelings/empowering-your-child/building-on-strengths/7-myths-about-twice-exceptional-2e-students

3. The National Research Center on the Talented and Gifted, UCONN https://nrcgt.uconn.edu/newsletters/spring984/

4. Twice-Exceptional Newsletter http://www.2enewsletter.com/article_2e_what_are_they.html]]> 2018-04-15 19:53:47 UTC https://padlet.com/kelley_westerberg/om787ki06lgy/wish/251928591 Instructional needs of students who are twice exceptional kelley_westerberg https://padlet.com/kelley_westerberg/om787ki06lgy/wish/251930185 1. 2e students need to be given specific opportunities to work on strengthening their strengths while also encouraging the use of compensation strategies like advanced organizers, technology, and a variety of communication alternatives.

2. Programs that support 2e students should: 
  • Nurture the student’s strengths and interests 
  • Foster their social/emotional development 
  • Enhance their capacity to cope with mixed abilities 
  • Identify learning gaps and provide explicit, remediative instruction  
  • Support the development of compensatory strategies
3. Accommodations in the form of assistive technology are very helpful to this group of students, this is because the opportunities that working with technology can provide can help 2e students to work with their strengths and areas of need.

4. The following is a great site that describes accommodations that are helpful depending on the disability that the student has: https://www.stthomas.edu/media/project2excel/pdf/Teacher-Developed_Best25Strategies_.pdf. This is a good site to use because not all 2e students will have the same disability, and thus will require different accommodations. 
]]> 2018-04-15 20:06:24 UTC https://padlet.com/kelley_westerberg/om787ki06lgy/wish/251930185 The article that I used originally kelley_westerberg https://padlet.com/kelley_westerberg/om787ki06lgy/wish/251931376 I am struggling to figure out how to download the article from the Elmhurst Library database site, so here is the title in case you want to search for it there, too, or in case what I am going to do doesn't work: Applying an RTI Model for Students with Learning Disabilities Who are Gifted - Yssel, Adams, Clarke, Jones (2014). 

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