Advice for a twice exceptional child?
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Advice for a twice exceptional child?
| Tue, 08-30-2011 - 7:55pm |
Hi ladies, I have a friend whose son (3rd grade) is both gifted and dyslexic. From what I understand, the dyslexia is a new diagnosis/discovery. I think they are struggling right now to find the right type of school for him. The public school that our kids attend ran out of ideas and his new school seems to be geared more to those with learning disabilities, but not to those who are also gifted.
I understand it can be a hard combination to work with for teachers who are not educated in this unique combination of traits. Is there any advice, tips, words of wisdom, or support you can provide? I'm going to give her a link to the board because I know that there are several of you who have experience in this area.
Thanks so much!
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I can't really offer any advice (because we homeschool my dd17, who is probably 2E, dyslexic and with some very strong gifts, although possibly not globally enought to be considered gifted, but certainly qutie bright), but the one thing I'd try do above all others is to enable the child to resist accepting the cruel and thoughtless and unsolicited assesments of the child's ability and prospects.
For M., we put him at the appropriate level of academic challenge but also enlisted support services for his delayed/problematic areas.
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I think it really depends on the school, but we've always had better luck with the public schools because they have the resources for the non-gifted stuff. I know my ds11 could do well academically at a gifted school, but I don't know that he'd get the support with speech and language that he needs.
Like others, I am homeschooling my twice exceptional student. If she can't, she needs to be very firm with the school about putting him resources that he may need (if it isn't vision therapy) while at the same time putting him with gifted kids. They may need the kids to take notes or read to him, but that is not a bad thing for them to help each other.
I have to say, until last month, I had never heard about vision therapy. I can't even imagine how many kids and adults would have benefited from something like this in the past.