RGGLD GIFTED/LD* CHARACTERISTICS
What To Look For In These Individuals
These links will take you to articles that provide either general descriptions or lists of characteristics of gifted and learning disabled individuals. Some articles may include strategies that are recommended by the article's author(s).
- Gifted but Learning Disabled: A Puzzling Paradox
ERIC Digest #E497, ERIC ID: ED321484
- This is an excellent article by Susan Baum that has both characteristics and strategies.
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ADHD and Children Who Are Gifted ERIC Digest #522, ERIC ID: ED358673
- A section of Webb and Latimer's article contains two parallel lists of behaviors associated with ADHD and Giftedness in an attempt to distinguish between the two groups.
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The AEGTCCBC's article, What educators...need to know about Gifted and Learning Disabled"
- This web page contains a list by Linda Silverman of characteristics that may be observed in Learning Disabled/Gifted students composed in 1983.
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Tammy Ellston's Gifted and Learning Disabled-A Paradox?
- This is a good overview article to 'introduce' the three groups that Tammy Ellston's article discusses by describing three children.
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Who Are These Students?
- Brody and Mills' article provides an overview of three subgroups of children whose dual exceptionality remains unidentified.
*On our website RGGLD uses Gifted/ld when this group of people can also be referred to in the following terms: Twice Exceptional, Dual
Exceptionalities, LD/gifted, Gifted and Learning Disabled, Learning
Disabilities and Giftedness, Gifted Underachievers, Advocacy, or Cross
Over Children.
While developing this web site, we discovered many alternate terms for gifted and learning disabled. When conducting your own searches you might want to try the following keywords: gifted/LD, twice exceptional, dual exceptionalities, LD/gifted, learning disabilities and giftedness, gifted underachievers.
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Last Maintained February 2008