Would love to know what you find, ultramarina. If only I'd known since my kids were gifted that they weren't supposed to struggle, school would have been so much easier from the start. Sigh. I cannot believe that kind of comment came out of someone with National Director in her title.
What I learned in college when I was studying for a degree to teach special ed is that special ed is for any child whose needs are not met by the traditional classroom setting to such a severe degree as to be debilitating and in such a way that the possibility for an adequate education was not possible. That was not limited to kids on only one end of the IQ spectrum but covered kids throughout the spectrum. There are plenty of kids with a severe learning disability and a "normal" IQ. IQ is simply one measuring tool that is used to determine level of need.
But that was the 80's.
