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General Discussion
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If you watch the documentary on Cas Holman, it makes you think about the kinds of activities children are doing. Many of us grew up going into woods and fields and making "toys and tools" from what we found. We had to use imagination and creativity
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General Discussion
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Originally Posted By: mithawkYour DH must be quite good to be able to play multiple games of blindfold chess. My son is a Master and he can do one game blindfold against a player about 400 points below his level. Anyway, Queen's Gambit is excellent.
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Identification, Testing & Assessment
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Welcome! Your DS has very strong scores all around. I assume he is extremely young, since he is not yet in school. Based only on his scores, there is a limited amount that one can really say, other than that he is very bright. But I can give you som
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THINKING BIG About Gifted Education
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I grew up in a petrochemical town and kids could leave high school, with a diploma or not, and get a union job in a refinery or chemical plant, good wages, benefits, full retirement package. And I think there is a huge mindset in middle America that
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Identification, Testing & Assessment
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Following pinewood1’s comments, it’s not just in school, but also in the workplace, it can be frustrating for EG/PG individuals to encounter colleagues and administrators (of average intellect with experience of a single narrow business model and lit
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Parenting and Advocacy
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I realize this is an old thread, but in regards to how to answer the school's insistence that its curriculum is so good that all the students are advanced, I think that's an easy answer. Every student is entitled to a year's growth in every subject.
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Twice Exceptional
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Here's some information on IEEs in your state: https://www.elc-pa.org/wp-content/upload...014.pdf#page=34 The psychiatric evaluation would look at the ASD angle, and any other emotional/mental health diagnostic considerations. For a learning disabi
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Twice Exceptional
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That is very helpful information you've collected. I'm glad to hear some useful resources are starting to assemble through your IRL team. Transition is absolutely a required component of the IEP team meeting and plan development, and even if your tea
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Parenting and Advocacy
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I agree with Kai. An honors section would definitely be a better peer group and likely pace of instruction. But even college prep alg II would be better than the alternative you expect. FWIW, that was exactly how my 7th grade year opened---sitting in
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Twice Exceptional
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Originally Posted By: aeh Actually, we do exactly the opposite with learners on the other end of the spectrum, in the name of holistic development--like placing children with significant learning delays with their age-peers for socialization reasons.
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