The Inconvenient Student: Critical Issues in the Identification and Education of Twice-Exceptional Students - Softcover

Dr. Michael Postma

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0880922338 ISBN 13: 9780880922333

Publisher: Royal Fireworks Publishing, 2017

Synopsis

Twice-exceptional children are those who are both gifted and have a learning disability or an attentional or behavioral disorder. Because they have exceptionalities at both ends of the spectrum, their needs tend to go unmet. Often they are able to compensate for their disability with their giftedness, and their disability typically masks their giftedness, leaving them struggling enormously to perform at average levels, unnoticed by school systems. The Inconvenient Student, by Dr. Michael Postma, tackles the problem of identifying gifted kids who have dyslexia, dysgraphia, sensory processing disorder, auditory and visual processing disorders, ADD, autism or Asperger's, ODD, OCD, anxiety, and depression. Dr. Postma explains in detail what these children are like and how to accommodate their needs in the regular classroom so that they can strengthen their weaknesses and maximize their strengths.

Edition details

• Publisher: Royal Fireworks Publishing
• Publication date: 2017
• ISBN 10: 0880922338
• ISBN 13: 9780880922333
• Binding: Perfect Paperback
• Language: English
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 199