Gifted and Talented Children With Special Educational Needs
Double Exceptionality

Gifted pupils who also have special needs often receive provision for the special need whilst the giftedness is overlooked. Children with such double exceptionality can become depressed, frustrated and misbehave, and may not fulfil their potential. Based on international research and practice, this practical text enables the reader to identify highly able pupils with special needs, such as ADHD, dyspraxia, dyslexia and Downs Syndrome, and then make provision for them within the mainstream school.
The book offers three emerging themes: creating a positive, constructive and supportive learning environment; offering a cognitively challenging curriculum; and engaging the learners in partnership to understand and manage their learning support.

Whilst aimed mainly at teachers and students at both primary and secondary levels, this book should also be of interest to educators, researchers and educational psychologists.
  

Table of Contents:
1. A Neurodevelopmental approach to learning disabilities - Diagnosis and treatment. 2. The gifted and learning diabled student - Teaching methodology that works. 3. Giftedness, talent and dyslexia. 4. Nonverbal learning difficulties. 5. Show me the light - I can't see how gifted I am. Gifted children with visual impairment. 6. Gifted children with hearing impairment. 7. Gifted with behaviour disorders. Marching to a different drummer. 8. Children with Asperger Syndrome and related disorders. 9. Interventions with talented at-risk populations with emotional and behavioural difficulities. 10. Gifted children with Down's Syndrome. A contradiction in terms? 

Teaching Gifted Children 4-7
A Guide for Teachers

Teachers and those involved in education should be able to use this text to find practical guidelines on how to identify gifted and talented young children, and to look at ways to enhance learning opportunities for them. Provided are a wealth of practical, tried and tested strategies that readers should be able to use in the classroom with confidence. 

Supporting The Child of Exceptional Ability at Home and School

Drawing on theories of child development and research in the processes of learning, this book examines the challenges which children, parents and teachers may face at various stages of a child's development. Children whose development is unusual in any way may experience particular challenges in forming relationships and in making good progress in school. If we are to help children of exceptional ability to develop into confident and well-adjusted young people, we need to understand what lies behind many of the common frustrations and problems some of them may experience.   

Table of Contents:
Section 1: Exceptional ability and its implications: Introduction; Infancy and the preschool years; The primary phase; Adolescence; Section 2: Planning and providing for children with exceptional abilities: Creating a climate for learning; School organisation and provision; Pastoral Care and support; Provision beyond the school; Partnership with parents; Looking to the future; Appendices: Bibliography; resources, and sample materials.

Teaching Mathematically Able Children

This work aims to help primary and secondary teachers to recognize and teach mathematically able pupils. Roy Kennard reviews the characteristics of the very able pupils and shows how these characteristics are reflected in the National Curriculum for Mathematics. He goes on to show how: mathematically able children can be challenged through problem solving and interactive discussion; and the use of in-depth case studies and other exemplifications of pupils' work makes it possible for teachers to see the consequences of the approaches discussed.
This text also considers whole school organizational and leadership approaches and should be useful to school management teams or "gifted and talented coordinators". This revised and updated second edition should be of interest to tecahers, advisers, lecturers and students with an interest in securing effective provision for mathematically able pupils.

Table of Contents:
Perspectives on the characteristic mathematical abilities of able children; Mathematically able children and the National Curriculum; Pupils' self-perceptions; Teaching approaches that challenge mathematically able children; Organisational approaches for challenging mathematically able pupils; Case study 1: working with able Year 9 pupils; Case study 2: industry links; Case study 3: working with able Year 6 pupils; A note on mathematical achievement and gender; Conclusion; A note on resources.