Things a twice-exceptional person could do:

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Find friends - maybe in places or activities that you would not normally look. For example: the Scout organisation, gym or exercise classes, on line meetings for your interests, community classes, volunteering, Young United Nations, Rotary Youth, Australian Conservation Foundation, Young Lions, Amnesty International                                                  Australia.

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                                             Be active - even when it feels too hard. Don't restrict yourself to the 'normal' sports,                                                  fencing? trampoline? parkour? 

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                                            Sleep well - and enough.

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                                             Practise a positive psychology this "is a relatively new branch of psychology that shifts the                                        focus from what is clinically wrong, to the promotion of wellbeing and the creation of a                                           satisfying life filled with meaning, pleasure, engagement, positive relationships and                                                    accomplishment."

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Eat well - it's ok to not like everything, but do try to try new things.

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Use people who know what they are talking about and you trust, or research backed

web based resources to sustain good mental health.

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Don't become addicted to the internet, seek to regulate your own use, and if you can't

do that ask a trusted adult for assistance.

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Understand yourself as a gifted individual. Being gifted makes you feel things more

deeply and yet often causes a feeling of helpless to change things around you.

Work out what you can do: volunteering, donating, offering your skills and strengths to others.....

​Like any other human you will not achieve, if you don't want to put in the effort. However, putting in effort must come from an internal locus of control; which is a trait you can develop. Renzulli's theory (below) acknowledges that task commitment is an essential component in the display of visible gifted behaviours. Grit, resilience, determination, focus all require practise and effort over time.

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Three-Ring Conception of Giftedness

"Gifted behavior consists of behaviors that reflect an interaction

among three basic clusters of human traits—these clusters being above

average general and/or specific abilities, high levels of task commitment,

and high levels of creativity. Gifted and talented children are those

possessing or capable of developing this composite set of traits and

applying them to any potentially valuable area of human performance.

Children who manifest or are capable of developing an interaction

among the three clusters require a wide variety of educational

opportunities and services that are not ordinarily provided through

regular instructional programs." 

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Things a support person can do:

please note inclusion here does not equal endorsement 

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Read stuff,

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• Who's Counting? The prevalence of twice-exceptionality in Australia.

• GERRIC Gifted and Talented Directory. This list of programs and services for gifted and talented students may help direct parents toward valuable enrichment and other services.

• NSW public schools survey of high potential and gifted students with disability 2021.

• Supporting twice exceptional (2E) students at school.

• A report on acceleration for the gifted: What does it mean?

• Australian gifted and talented education: An analysis of government policies​.

• Identification of gifted and twice exceptional.. 

• Twice-exceptional children: An exploration of lived experiences and stigma narratives

• Gifted educational provisions for gifted and highly able students in Victorian schools, Australia.

• Gifted education in Australia: A story of striving for balance.

• Many faces of a gifted personality: Characteristics along a complex gifted spectrum.

• The young gifted learner: What we know and implications for early educational practice.

• The adjustment of gifted children: Is asynchrony the only reason for their problems?

• Student diversity  Meeting the needs of gifted and talented students.

• Gifted and talented programs, associations and support groups for children.

• Neglecting gifted students in education has costs for all Australians.

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Research:

• Heterogeneity across Australian ICT policies for education of gifted students.

• Young and misunderstood in the education system: A case study of giftedness and specific learning disabilities. 

• Gifted education in the Asia-Pacific: from the past for the future: An introduction.

• Gifted, disadvantaged, unseen: A scoping study of giftedness, disadvantage and cultural difference in young adult learners.

• Why do we know so little about the factors associated with gifted underachievement? A systematic literature review

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Find others to advise and support you and your young person

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• Square Pegs dyslexia support & advocacy inc. 

• Youth Affairs Council Victoria (YACVic) is the peak body and leading policy advocate for young people and the youth sector in Victoria.

• AAEGT The Australian Association for the Education of the Gifted and Talented.  

• Gifted and talented programs, associations and support groups for children.

• Mensa is the largest and best known High IQ society with over 140,000 members in 47 national organisations, world wide.

• Australian Gifted Support Centre Services.

• GERRIC: gifted education.

• VAGTC The Victorian Association for Gifted and Talented Children.

• Aussie Educator This page looks at Gifted programs, system support, associations, support groups and other information for all Australian states & Territories plus other Australian information.

• Born to Soar "are specialists in gifted education. Our approach is unique in that it takes a global perspective in the education and the support of students, parents, schools and teachers."

• Gifted Minds "Our strength is in helping identify and understand areas of ability while deepening knowledge of the impact of intensity." 

• Secret gifted minds: How a gifted person thinks differently.

• G.A.T.E.WAYS recognises that gifted and talented children have special educational needs.

• Gifted support network is a registered association founded in 1998 by parents in Melbourne, Australia.

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International sources, 

 

• The Dąbrowski Center is a non-profit organization dedicated to making the world a better place by removing the stigma of mental illness and promoting an alternative approach to personality development. We advocate, research, teach, expand, and share Dr. Kazimierz Dąbrowski's theory of positive disintegration.

• The Davidson Institute. We guide profoundly gifted young people 18 and under. Profoundly gifted students score in the 99.9th percentile on IQ and achievement tests, and think and learn differently than other students.

• SENG is a nonprofit organization that empowers families and communities to guide gifted and talented individuals to reach their goals: intellectually, physically, emotionally, socially, and spiritually.

• IGC The International Gifted Consortium is a transformational group of leaders from across the globe, who possess an empathetic understanding of giftedness in its most acute, highly developed form. 

• Bridges Academy educates a diverse group of gifted students ​with a range of strengths, interests, and learning differences. We refer to these students as twice-exceptional or 2e. ​​Our program, which serves Grades 4-12, is strength-based, student-centered, and life changing.

• With understanding comes calm. Bringing out the best in 2e kids & adults.

• Bright and Quirky. What really works for gifted kids with adhd, autism, anxiety, or learning disabilities.

• Seth Perler. Is my child twice exceptional or 2e?

• SENG is a nonprofit organization that empowers families and communities to guide gifted and talented individuals to reach their goals: intellectually, physically, emotionally, socially, and spiritually.

• Potential Plus UK, supporting children with high learning potential.

• Social development of the gifted.

• Ed.D. dissertations and M.Ed. capstones, Bridges Grad School. 

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• TTRS Touch-type, Read and Spell with confidence. An award-winning, multi-sensory course that teaches typing, reading and spelling.

• Outschool - online classes that are different and often geared towards the Australian time zone.​​​​​​​​

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