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I think what is often missed in mainstream discussions on "giftedness" is those gifted but with disabilities. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twice_exceptional h
by tyler- 8y ago
I think what is often missed in mainstream discussions on "giftedness" is those gifted but with disabilities.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twice_exceptional https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twice_exceptional
These are students that are gifted, but due to their disabilities underperform. It isn't uncommon for them to not be identified as gifted, and thus never be put in gifted classes despite being very intelligent.
Imagine having someone 140+ IQ that is stuck in a standard classroom all 12-years of their pre-college education because they weren't ever identified. They typically are the students that enroll in special services and get exam accommodations in colleges.
At least colleges recognize these sort of students. For example Princeton has such services: https://ods.princeton.edu https://ods.princeton.edu
- justtopost 8y agoI was in both disabled and gifted programs concurrently in elementary in the 80s and 90s. Public school, in California. Its not missed, so much as parents seem to pidgeonhole their kids faster than the schools do.
- Regolitch 8y agoSame. I remember having to be pulled out of my 'special needs' class to go to the auditorium for a small celebration recognizing the students who has scored highest on the standardized reading comprehension exams. I won a pizza party for my english class because I had the highest score of any student in the entire middle school. The two eighth grade honors classes had been competing to see which of them would get it. They were pissed to loose it to the sixth grade remedial english class. That was about the time I started to lose respect for the US school system.