Are you up for a treasure hunt? A solution-focused and systemic approach in educating twice-exceptional students.

Balanced research and practice

Twice-exceptional and multiple exceptional students (TE/ME students) experience problems due to being gifted and having a learning disability (Baum et al., 2017; Pereles et al., 2009; Trail, 2011). This results in unique social-emotional and/or behavioural problems (Reiss et al., 2014). Teachers find it difficult to cope with situations occurring due to the interplay between the student's natural abilities and thresholds. They feel insecure whether to take action and start-up an educational plan or to wait until a diagnosis of the problem is available.