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1. Read lecture below on Gifted, Creative and Talented Children
2. Read articles:
Gifted Children with Learning Disabilities: A Review of the Issues, Linda E. Brody, Carol J. Mills, Journal of Learning Disabilities (1997)
http://www.ldonline.org/article/5914
A Diamond in the Rough
Lisa Fine Goldstein (2001)
http://www.ldonline.org/article/Diamond_in_the_Rough
Attention Deficit Disorders and Gifted Students: What Do We Really Know?
Felice Kaufmann, M. Layne Kalbfleisch, and F. Xavier Castellanos (2000)
http://www.ldonline.org/article/5964
3. Watch the video:
A chance to read: Twice Exceptional
http://bcove.me/8d770sca
4. Post a website address to the discussion board (share with your classmates) that you have found to provide informative and helpful information in the area of Giftedness and LD or Giftedness and other disabilities, underachievement etc.
Gifted, Creative and Talented Children
Canada’s greatest resource is not oil, or gas, or timber–it is our gifted and talented children. Our greatest failure could be our general blindness to this fact. (Gutteridge, 1980)
Terminology:
Gifted Children:
– although the term is most often used, somewhat incorrectly, to refer to students with above average academic endowment. ‘Gifted children’ can possess special abilities in diverse areas
Talent:
– refers to a specific dimension of a skill in an area such as music, visual arts, drama, or in particular academic domains.
Creativity:
– refers to the process of bringing unusual and unexpected responses to bear on given situations.
Divergent thinking:
– exploratory thought processes that yield more than one answer to the problem being examined.
Convergent thinking:
– focuses on one right answer, or toward a relatively determined answer.
Precocity:
– refers to remarkable early development.
Genius:
– is often used to indicate extremely rare intellectual powers.
Atypical abilities:
– refers to outstanding strengths or abilities in a specific or narrow field.
Prevalence of Giftedness:
• difficult to estimate due to lack of universal definition of giftedness
• generally believed to be between 2%-5% of the school-age population
• about half a million Canadians have IQ’s of 130 or above (average person has an IQ of 100)
• found at every economic level, every strata of society, all ethnic, cultural and racial groups
Factors Contributing to Giftedness:
• combination of heredity and environment
• suggested that half to three-quarters of intelligence variation is due to genetics
• research on identical twins shows a higher correlation than fraternal twins
• environmental factors affecting the development of giftedness include:
? values and expectations of culture,
? socio-economic level of family,
? nutritional and health variables,
? birth order (first born),
? number of children in family,
? presence of environmental stimulation
Gifted Handicapped Students:
• a substantial number of famous people have been handicapped:
? Beethoven,
? Vincent Van Gogh,
? Helen Keller
• demonstrates at least one attribute of educational, emotional or physical/sensory impairment
• may deviate substantially both above and below the norm (strengths and weaknesses are very pronounced)
• prevalence of giftedness is the same in the handicapped population as in the total population
• they form a minority within a minority
• there are many factors that prohibit against their receiving appropriate programs:
? fail to meet stereotyped expectations of the gifted;
? societal difficulties to accept that a handicapped child may have outstanding abilities;
? focus is entirely on child’s disabilities;
? difficulties in learning can create a smokescreen that masks their talents
? there is no one instrument or checklist that is capable of a gifted disabled child
Underachievement Syndrome:
– Children who have no actual learning inability
– children with average, above average and gifted intellectual abilities-not performing up to their capabilities.
What Do Underachievers Look Like?
a) Dependent Underachievers:
1. Perfectionist Pearl
2. Passive Paul
3. Sick Sally
4. Taunted Tarrence
5. Torn (between parents) Terrance
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