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4.3.3 Educating Twice Exceptional Elementary Students: What Works? What Doesn't Work? A Parent’s Perspective
Elementary schooling can make or break twice-exceptional children, often having an impact on the rest of their schooling. This presentation will focus on the experiences of parents of twice-exceptional children. What has worked and has not worked in their children’s education, and how have these experiences impacted their children’s academic achievement and social, emotional, and mental health? The session will leave teachers and educational leadership with a range of experiences they can draw on in the education of their own twice-exceptional students.
Author(s):
Amanda Drury
amanda.drury@internode.on.net
Australia
Amanda Drury has been teaching in preschools and primary (elementary) schools for seventeen years. She has an Arts background, using the creative arts to integrate curriculum, accommodating the diversity of needs and interests of all her students. Amanda has two twice-exceptional children herself aged 10 and 13 years and is currently studying a double Master’s Degree in Gifted and Special Education at Flinders University. Amanda actively runs a support group for parents of twice-exceptional children, Gifted 2E Support Australia, and strives to assist parents along with their journey with their children using the latest research in twice-exceptional education and support.