Gifted learning with learning disabilities

Gifted learning with learning disabilities : Research

Munro J. (2005). The learning characteristics of gifted literacy disabled students. This article reports our recent research examining the cognitive architecture of students who are both gifted and who have specific literacy learning disabilities.  A version of the research was published in Gifted Education International 2005 Vol 19, pp 154-172.

Munro J. (2002). Understanding & identifying gifted learning disabled students. Australian Journal of Learning Disabilities, 7, (2) 20 - 30. This article describes a framework for identifying and assessing the literacy learning needs of gifted underachieving students.

Munro J. (2002). The reading characteristics of gifted literacy disabled students. Australian Journal of Learning Disabilities .7, (2) , 4-12.

Gifted students who have academic learning difficulties: analytic sequential processing problems ? Some secondary gifted students display the dual exceptionalities of giftedness and a specific learning disability in literacy and/or mathematics that leads to chronic underachievement in academic studies.  This paper describes how these students have analytic sequential processing difficulties that restrict their ability to use conventional assessment tasts to show their gifted understanding. It also shows how they can be assisted by directed strategy teaching. A version is published in W. Vialle (Ed.), Dual Exceptionality (pp 26-38). Wollongong, NSW: AAEGT Ltd. Wollongong, NSW: AAEGT Ltd.

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A chapter  written by  Dr Munro outlining his recent work on teaching gifted underachievers is   Wills, L. and Munro, J. (2009).    Changing the teaching for the underachieving able child.  Chapter 6 in Montgomery, D.  (2009). (Eds.) Able, Gifted and Talented Underachievers.  2nd edition.  Weinheim. Germany : Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. You can see this text at  http://www.wiley-vch.de/publish/en/company/contact/?sID=amosvr8aphnj1agiucj49qkrs3.