Raising a Twice Exceptional Learner
Kids with learning and attention issues are just as smart as their peers. And some of them are especially smart. These kids are known as “twice-exceptional.” Kathy Stratton, founding member...
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The experience of raising a twice-exceptional child is one that can be really exciting and can also be very confusing. Because twice-exceptional students can have, and do have, great strengths in certain areas, but they also have weaknesses and limitations in other areas. One of the first things I remember about recognizing my son's intellectual curiosity was when he was about 3 years old, and we were taking a trip into New York, and we saw a sign and it said "Welcome to New York. George Pataki, Governor." And he was always asking me to read things to him, and maybe that was a precursor to the dyslexia, I'm not sure. When I read the sign, he said, "Well wait a minute, I thought Christie Whitman was governor. What do you mean George...
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The experience of raising a twice-exceptional child is one that can be really exciting and can also be very confusing. Because twice-exceptional students can have, and do have, great strengths in certain areas, but they also have weaknesses and limitations in other areas. One of the first things I remember about recognizing my son's intellectual curiosity was when he was about 3 years old, and we were taking a trip into New York, and we saw a sign and it said "Welcome to New York. George Pataki, Governor." And he was always asking me to read things to him, and maybe that was a precursor to the dyslexia, I'm not sure. When I read the sign, he said, "Well wait a minute, I thought Christie Whitman was governor. What do you mean George...
