The Curricular Needs
of the Twice-Exceptional Child

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Their Curricula Must Offer:

Daily interactions with Twice-Exceptional Peers
Appropriate Emotional, Social and Cognitive Activities
Advanced Organizers
Qualitatively Differentiated Curricula with Abstract Ideas
Integrative/Interdisciplinary Curriculum Opportunities
Hands-On, Problem-Based Learning (Inquiry & Discovery)
Individualized Reading, Writing, and/or Math Program (remedial to address deficit areas, accelerated to address areas of giftedness)
Opportunities to Learn and to Apply the Process of Conducting Research
Encouragement to Develop Autonomy
Sophisticated Methods of Looking at and of Developing Personal Futures

©1999, L. Dennis Higgins