Students with Both Gifts and Learning Disabilities: Identification, Assessment, and Outcomes(25 Neuropsychology and Cognition)

While the past 25 years have seen a growing interest in students with both gifts and learning disabilities, the published material has focused predominantly on students who have only one area of gifts -- high IQ. Students with Both Gifts and Learning Disabilities tries to provide the reader with a broader conceptualization of the gifted/LD learner to include students who have gifts in other domains and who would benefit from being identified and having their talents nurtured. This volume aims to: Provide information for elementary, secondary, and college educators including pre-service teachers, special and regular education teachers, gifted coordinators, college resource centers, and educational administrators who are looking to develop a better understanding of students with unusual learning profiles; Provide resources for both education and psychology researchers to enlighten the state of research in this area and to provide the impetus for future work; Provide information for families, including parents and students who have differential learning profiles and who are looking for a greater understanding of what this means to them. Students with Both Gifts and Learning Disabilities provides ideas for educators, parents, and students, and stimulates more questions to be answered by researchers.

Table of Contents:
1. Learning Disabilities, Giftedness, and Gifted/LD.- 2. The Identification of Gifted Students with Learning Disabilities: Challenges, Controversies, and Promising Practices.- 3. Unraveling the Mysteries of GLD: Toward the Application of Cognitive Theory to Assessment.- 4. Linking Assessment and Diagnosis to Intervention for Gifted Students with Learning Disabilities.- 5. Dyslexia and Visual Spatial Talents: Are They Connected?.- 6. To Read but Not to Read: Identifying and Understanding the Nature of Poor Reading Comprehension in Children.- 7. Gifted Adults with Learning Disabilities in Postsecondary Settings.- 8. Compensation Strategies Used by High Ability Students with Learning Disabilities.- 9. Summoning Up the Spirits from the Vast Deep: LD and Giftedness in Historic Persons.- 10. Interventions Work, But We Need More!.