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Improving Outcomes for 2E Children
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Trail, Beverly A. – Parenting for High Potential, 2012
The term "twice-exceptional (2E)" is representative of a diverse group of individuals who have a wide range of gifts, talents, and accompanying disabilities. These children have the characteristics of gifted students along with the characteristics of children with disabilities. The gifted characteristics can mask the disability, or the disability…
Descriptors: Educational Needs, Academically Gifted, Disabilities, Student Improvement
Community Challenge: Enhancing the Academic Achievement of Children and Youth.
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Barnett, Linda Boliek; And Others – Roeper Review, 1996
Describes the 1991 and 1992 programs of the Baltimore and Washington D.C. Community Outreach Project of The Johns Hopkins University Center for Talented Youth, which targets disadvantaged gifted students. Discusses peer relationships, curriculum development, class time, and achievement, concluding that appropriate intervention is essential in…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Elementary Secondary Education, Gifted Disadvantaged, Intervention
The Seven Plus Story: Developing Hidden Talent among Students in Socioeconomically Disadvantaged Environments.
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Baldwin, Alexinia Young – Gifted Child Quarterly, 1994
The Javits 7+ Gifted and Talented Program (Community School District 18, Brooklyn, New York) was designed to provide an opportunity for socioeconomically disadvantaged children to receive intensive school-based activities that would prepare them for gifted education programs. Teachers assessed students using Howard Gardner's concept of multiple…
Descriptors: Ability Identification, Demonstration Programs, Economically Disadvantaged, Gifted Disadvantaged
A Special Friend: Adolescent Mentors for Young, Economically Disadvantaged, Potentially Gifted Students.
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Wright, Lisa; Borland, James H. – Roeper Review, 1992
The mentorship component of Project Synergy at Teachers College, Columbia University (New York), develops the talent of potentially gifted, economically disadvantaged urban kindergarten children, by matching them with mentors from a school for gifted urban minority middle school students. This paper describes training, the mentoring relationship…
Descriptors: Cross Age Teaching, Economically Disadvantaged, Gifted Disadvantaged, Intermediate Grades
APOGEE: Equity in the Identification of Gifted and Talented Students.
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O'Tuel, Frances S. – Gifted Child Quarterly, 1994
The Academic Programs for Gifted with Excellence and Equity (APOGEE) serves the top 25% of students in various categories, such as disadvantaged, minorities, underachievers, limited English speakers, and students with disabilities. Their teachers have been trained in implementing a student-centered talent development program emphasizing choices,…
Descriptors: Ability Identification, Demonstration Programs, Elementary Secondary Education, Equal Education
Recognition and Development of Academic Talent in Educationally Disadvantaged Students.
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Mills, Carol J.; And Others – Exceptionality: A Research Journal, 1992
Thirty-six educationally disadvantaged gifted fifth grade students completed a program to reinforce their academic skills in either language arts or mathematics. Compared to controls, subjects showed gains in achievement and aptitude test scores in language arts as well as mathematics and then became eligible for challenging gifted/talented…
Descriptors: Ability Identification, Academic Achievement, Academic Aptitude, Academically Gifted