Educators agree that a student can display gifted behavior and learning disabilities (GLD) simultaneously. Some of these students thrive when exploring advanced level investigative projects which require higher order thinking skills (HOTS) and creation of an original product. This article presents a GLD case story as an example of successful intervention utilizing an instructional strategy, Talents and Type IIIs (Newman, in press), which merges the HOTS Talents Unlimited Model (Productive Thinking, Decision Making, Planning, Forecasting, and Communication) (Schlichter, 1986) with investigative research strategies such as Type III (Renzulli & Reis, 1985). (Contains 8 figures.)