Gifted Children with Learning Disabilities: A Review of the Issues

Brody, Linda E.; Mills, Carol J.

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“…This situation, which is the main caused of misdiagnoses of the gifted, has been discusses in length (e.g. Brody & Mills, 1997;Ellston, 1993;Fall & Nolan, 1993;Reynoldset al, 1993;Siegel & Metsala, 1992).…”

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Faye: A 14-Year Old Gifted Disabled Girl and how she Overcame her Learning Disabilities - Prologue: Characteristics of Gifted Families Seeking Counseling

Hine

2015

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Most parents meeting me for counseling regarding their gifted children share some common characteristics.1. They are usually of middle-and upper middle-class socio-economic status, but by no means rich. Both parents are salaried employees, and those who are not, have their own private lawyers', accountants', doctors', physical-or mental health professionals companies or businesses; 2. A very high percentage of the parents are professionals in education, counseling, or psychology. When not, they are well-read in child development, educational psychology, sociology, education in general and education of the gifted in particular;3. Almost all families have at least 2 children; the majority are 3-child families and the minority -4-child families. A high rate of the fathers are married for the second time; in most of these cases the father has children from his former marriage as well; 4. I am almost never the first priority as a counselor of the parents. Quite often I am perceived by them as the last resort, after at least one other intervention -in some cases after three or even four other trials. In some of these cases, especially after long, unsuccessful interventions, it is not easy to convince the child to meet me after such disappointments.5. In spite of the fact that many parents of gifted girls and adolescent females approach me either by telephone or by mail, for example: 36 in the year 2014 (see David, in press), they almost never make an appointment for a counseling session, and when they do -they cancel it quite frequently. Even when a family with a gifted family makes it for the counseling session, it rarely wishes to start treatment. This is quite puzzling, taking into account the fact that the problems of many of these girls are severe; for example: in 2014 all children and adolescents threatening to commit suicide were made by girls, while only one girl started treatment with me -a 6-year old adorable girl who was not in any danger whatsoever. As for boys -because of time limitation I can have less than one third of the candidates for intervention.

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Section: Faye's Psychological Diagnosis At Agementioning

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Faye: A 14-Year Old Gifted Disabled Girl and how she Overcame her Learning Disabilities - Prologue: Characteristics of Gifted Families Seeking Counseling

Hine

2015

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“…To do all these, teachers must have the opportunities to tap the full potentials of both the diligent and the intelligent children. Failure on their part to tap into their pupils' potentials fully might result to severe and grave consequences (Brody & Mills, 1997).…”

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Does the Differences in 6, 7, and 8-Year-Old Children’s Reading and Writing Success has to do With Diligence Rather than Intelligence

Briggs¹

2014

IJEEDU

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Abstract:The study is a follow up to a study that was previously conducted by the authors (Briggs, Ololube, & Kpolovie, 2014) on "Managing Children Learning: Support Based Screening Procedure for Motor, Cognition and Language Communication in Early Childhood Education". Limited data are available that describe the relative impact of diligence and intelligence in children's reading and writing skills in sub-Saharan Africa. In today's world, young children look for attention and engage in positive or negative behavior to attain it. It is important that teachers recognize the diligence and intelligence worth of their students on a consistent basis, as research literature in education is devoting increasing attention to the role of children's effort in academic performance. This study posits two constructs: diligence and intelligence, which express or reflect individual children's efforts toward achieving reading and writing success. A Diligence and Intelligence Inventory was developed with assistance from experts to elicit data from 6, 7, and 8-year-old children's teachers on their pupils' achievements in reading and writing. Using Cronback analysis and construct validation procedures, the instrument was certified to have internal consistency. The results from 321 schoolchildren revealed a significant statistical difference between diligence and intelligence. The academic and practical implications of this study to educational practice include a greater need to complement the efforts of young children in their pursuit for balanced educational development.

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“…In a study by Brody and Mills (1997), it was pointed out that those students with LDs should develop creative thinking to be able to overcome and contend with all the difficulties that they face during attainment of education. Recently, many studies have shown an improvement in the thinking abilities with others variables among students with difficulties (Al Zyoudi, 2009;Alqemish et al, 2007;Kattab & Al Hadid, 2008;Leshowitz et al, 1993;Monahan, 2000).…”

Section: International Journal Of Academic Research In Progressive Edmentioning

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Enhancing Critical Thinking Skills among Students with Learning Difficulties

Melhem¹,

Isa²

2013

IJARPED

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This study aimed to enhance critical thinking skills among sixth grade student with learning difficulties in mathematics in Jordan by using the CoRT programme. The pre-test-post-test control-group design was used in the study. There was one dependent variable in this study, is, the level of students' critical thinking skills. For this purpose, a critical thinking test was administered to a sample of 93 sixth grade student with learning difficulties in mathematics from schools in First Amman Educational Directorate in Jordan, before and after a threemonth training program. The participants of the sample were distributed into two groups. After that, one group was randomly chosen to be the experimental group, and the other one to be the control group. Results showed that the training programme had a very large -sized effect on the participants' critical thinking.

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Gifted Children with Learning Disabilities: A Review of the Issues

Cited by 212 publications

References 50 publications

Faye: A 14-Year Old Gifted Disabled Girl and how she Overcame her Learning Disabilities - Prologue: Characteristics of Gifted Families Seeking Counseling

Faye: A 14-Year Old Gifted Disabled Girl and how she Overcame her Learning Disabilities - Prologue: Characteristics of Gifted Families Seeking Counseling

Does the Differences in 6, 7, and 8-Year-Old Children’s Reading and Writing Success has to do With Diligence Rather than Intelligence

Enhancing Critical Thinking Skills among Students with Learning Difficulties

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