Twice Exceptional Students

= Twice Exceptional Students = Often the physical or learning disabilities these student have will impair their performance despite their gift.

For example a talented young maths student with ADHD could lack the discipline to complete and double check exercises, resulting in poor or average grades. Based on the student’s grades they would not make it through screening process of a traditional model.

The special abilities of these students are understandably difficult to identify, but it is especially important that their needs are addressed so that they can achieve to the greatest of their ability.

Hence a one dimensional traditional assessment is clearly insufficient (Anderson, 2000., Morrison & Rizza, 2007).