Bobby Gilman wrote an article on the critical issues facing twice-exceptional or Gifted LD students at school. The paper provided information on the challenges that 2E students face while being educated. States are cutting back services to students with Specific Learning Disabilities (SLDs) and dyslexia is considered a part. The students that qualify for services are so low (e.g. 5 or 12th percentile), that they are often missed or forgotten about.
Gifted children can also be dyslexic, but standard tests have too low of a threshold to initiate reading disability services in the schools.
Gilman also stated that Regarding Response to Intervention or RTI: “RTI was not developed with gifted children in mind, and adaptation of its rules for gifted children was overlooked in the federal legislation.” Teachers can raise academic achievements and initiate RTI but some children will go unrecognized because of their disability and their disability may hide their giftedness, strengths and/or weaknesses.
Key takeaways
- Weighing services for gifted students versus those with learning disabilities
- Intellectual ability can be hidden by learning disabilities
- When gifted students fail, intervention is very much needed
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