Gifted Children with Learning Disabilities

Gifted Children with Learning Disabilities
"Children who are gifted and learning disabled have an excellent chance to become successful adults. Once the learning disability is diagnosed, coping strategies can be integrated into the child's life. It is important to provide the child with a stimulating, intellectually challenging environment that includes support for the learning disability."
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Gifted Children with Learning Disabilities

Gifted Children with Learning Disabilities : Lost Treasures

Linda Kreger Silverman, Ph.D.

"How is it possible for a child to be both gifted and learning disabled? When giftedness is thought of as learning-abled, it seems incomprehensible that a person could be simultaneously learning-abled and learning-disabled. However, when giftedness is seen as developmental advancement or as advanced abstract reasoning ability or as asynchrony (the discrepancy between mental and chronological age), it becomes conceivable that a bright student may have difficulty reading, writing, spelling, calculating, or organizing. Giftedness can be combined with blindness, deafness, cerebral palsy, other physical handicaps, and psychological dysfunctions. It provides no immunity against physical diseases and accidents that impair functioning."

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