Gifted and Learning Disabled (GLD) Information

A collection of links to help parents and teachers who are trying to piece together the puzzle of a gifted child with a learning disability...

The following websites present a wide range of views and experiences related to this topic, but the Association and the GLD Support Group do not necessarily endorse all the ideas expressed. If you have an electronic resource you would like to suggest, or an update to one already listed, please help others and email your suggestion, including title, URL, and annotation/details ready to cut and paste.

Introductory Information

Good starting point for understanding what it means to be gifted and learning disabled and how parents and teachers can help.

• Characteristics of Gifted and Learning Disabled Students - paper by presented Wendy Stewart at the 7th AAEGT Conference held in 1998.
• Gifted but Learning Disabled: A Puzzling Paradox - Eric Digest #E479 by Susan Baum.
• Hoagies Gifted - loads of links related to Twice Exceptional children.
• Uniquely Gifted - Excellent and comprehensive site covering gifted children with special needs (ADHD, Learning Disabilities, Asperger Syndrome, etc).

Learning Disabilities

• Dsylexia Online - Online magazine with information and resources.
• LD Info Website - dedicated to the advancement of practical knowledge and understanding about the often mysterious. world of Learning Disabilities. The key word here is "practical"!!
• LD Online - website on learning disabilities for parents, teachers and other professionals.
• SPELD NSW - supports the needs of children and adults who have Specific Learning Difficulties.

Learning Styles

• All kinds of minds - Great site exploring the different ways children learn and providing resources and support for teachers to respond to this challenge.
• Center for Development and Learning - plenty of resources for parents and
  teachers related to education and learning.
• Visual Spatial Resource Page - Dr. Linda Silverman coined the term
  “ visual-spatial learner” to describe the unique gifts of people who think in
  images and is author of Upside-Down Brilliance: The Visual-Spatial Learner.
• Gifted & Creative Services Australia - Lesley Sword's site for information on emotional issues, intensity, sensitivity, perfectionism, and the very real needs of visual-spatial learners.
• I Think in Pictures, You Teach in Words - article by Lesley Sword, which was published in Gifted in June 2000.
• NeuroLearning - a website created by Dr Fernette Eide to help parents learn about their children's learning differences and disabilities, so parents can understand how best to teach and help their children at school and at home.
• Writing Problems of Visual Thinkers - This is an expanded version of a print
  article that appeared in the refereed journal, Visible Language, 28.2,
  Spring 1994, pp. 134 - 161. © 1994, 1996 by Gerald Grow.

AD/HD

• Attention Research Update - a free e-mail newsletter offered by David
  Rabiner, Ph.D. Senior Research Scientist at Duke University, that helps
  parents, professionals, and educators stay informed about important new
  research on ADHD.
• Gifted Children with AD/HD - article by Deirdre V. Lovecky, Director of the Gifted Resource Center of New England.
• Hyperactivity Attention Deficit Association (NSW) - provide counselling, advice and support to ADD/ADHD children, adults and their families.

Auditory Processing Disorders

• CAPD and the Gifted Child - article by Kay Pittelkow published in Gifted November 2001.
• Hearing beyond the ears: Central Auditory Processing Disorders (CAPD) Part 1 and Part 2 by Brock and Fernette Eide

Visual Processing Disorders

• Australasian College of Behavioural Optometrists - A Behavioural optometrist has a holistic approach in the treatment of vision and vision information processing problems. Includes search facility to find a behavioural optometrist in your area.
• Parents Active for Vision Education (PAVE) - PAVE is a national non-profit education, resource and support organization whose mission is to raise public awareness of the crucial relationship between vision and achievement.
• Vision and Reading - This site has simulations that show how inefficient eye
  movements can decrease the speed of reading.

Sensory Integration Disorders

• Elaine Aron's The Highly Sensitive Person website - A highly sensitive child
  is one born with a nervous system that is highly aware and quick to react to
  everything. This makes them easily overwhelmed by high levels of
  stimulation, sudden changes, and the emotional distress of others.
• Sensory Integration Network - dedicated to bringing current sensory
  integration resources and information to families, consumers and
  professionals. Sensory Integration Dysfunction (DSI) can create many
  parenting challenges. This site has resources to help parents understand how
  problems with sensory integration may affect their child’s daily activities
  and behavior.

Therapies and Interventions

• Allergic Children
• Brain Train
• Feingold Dietary Program
• Gluten Free Casein Free Diet
• Handwriting without Tears
• Samonas Auditory Intervention
• The Tomatis Method

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