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Twice-exceptionality is the phenomenon of a student with one or more disabilities who is also gifted and talented. Identification of twice-exceptionality is difficult and only recently has there been a greater awareness of the needs of twice-exceptional students. There is empirical research about twice-exceptionality but little research exists on how twice-exceptional individuals perceive and attribute meaning to their lived experiences. The purpose of this qualitative case study was to explore the experiences of one university student identified as gifted and learning disabled to understand how personal experiences influenced his identity development, his perspectives on teaching and education, and, ultimately, his career choice. Five themes emerged from the data analysis: (a) psychosocial challenges, (b) delayed identification, (c) masking effect and school achievement, (d) the importance of support, and (e) motivation for career choice. Individuals with twice-exceptionality often face unique psychosocial challenges including social isolation, low self-esteem, and feelings of worthlessness. Identification and support are often delayed for these individuals as their disability can mask their giftedness and vice versa; each condition affects their school achievement. These challenges affected the study participant; his personal and academic experiences illustrated the impact identification and support had on his education as well as his future goal of becoming a teacher. A key motivating factor for his career choice was to address the needs of future students with twice exceptionality. Findings of this study suggested an interrelationship among the five themes and stressed the critical importance of identifying and supporting students who have unique learning needs. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2022 APA, all rights reserved)

The purpose of this study was to detect Turkish pre-service elementary school teachers' perceptions of giftedness and factors affecting their referral decisions through eleven profiles (scenarios) originally created by five experts in the field of gifted education and semi-structured interview questions created for this study. The original profiles were translated from English to Turkish and adapted to be more relevant to Turkish culture. These profiles were named as Student Profiles Survey in this study. The profiles were varied based on characteristics embedded in each profile and I was able to create eight versions (pile) of the Student Profiles Survey. Profiles in each version (pile) of Student Profiles Survey differed from each other based on the characteristics embedded in each profile. Participants of the study were Turkish pre-service elementary school teachers who were attending two colleges of Education at Gaziantep University, namely Gaziantep College of Education and Nizip College of Education. A total of 204 Turkish pre-service elementary school teachers participated in the study and filled out the different versions of Student Profiles Survey. Approximately 25 pre-service teachers filled out each version of Student Profiles Survey. In addition, 16 of the pre-service teachers were asked for a follow-up interview. The convergent parallel mixed-methods design was used to shed light on the research questions. The findings from quantitative and qualitative analyses were combined to support each other and to better investigate Turkish pre-service elementary school teachers' perceptions of giftedness and factors affecting their referral decisions. The results of this study indicated that Profile 11 was the most appropriate and Profile 4 was the least appropriate profile for Turkish pre-service elementary school teachers' perceptions of giftedness. Turkish pre-service elementary school teachers explained their reasons for including the students in the profiles to gifted education programs mostly based on the personal, academic, and social characteristics of the students embedded in the profiles but they did not often referred students' characteristics when they were explaining their reasons for exclusion. Rather than explaining their reasons based on characteristics of the students, Turkish pre-service teachers increased their expectations and created excuses to underestimate the potentials of the students in the profiles when they were asked to explain their reasons for exclusion. The results of factorial ANOVAs indicated that Turkish pre-service elementary school teachers' referral decisions were influenced by the following factors: Students' and pre-service teachers' gender, students' ability areas, personality traits of the students, words describing the student, and students' length of passion. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2022 APA, all rights reserved)

Gifted students in transition to college may be at risk for underachievement, difficult transition, or even attrition. Giftedness by itself is not always sufficient for academic success in college. The purpose of this grounded theory study was to construct a theory regarding the process of transition to college for high-achieving gifted high school students. The study was conducted with 12 traditional-aged, gifted college freshmen enrolled in high-ACT and honors sections of an extended orientation course at a small, private, Midwestern university. Data were collected through journal entries, intensive individual interviews, and focus groups conducted throughout students' first semester. The data were analyzed through a process of initial line-by-line coding, focused coding, and axial coding. A paradigm model was developed from students' descriptions of their experiences in transition. The results of the study indicate that students' academic experiences in high school directly affect the development of their academic self-concept, as well as the nature of their transition and the academic and social coping behaviors they develop. Students reported lack of challenge in high school, which for many resulted in delayed development of the requisite academic skills for successful transition to college academics. In addition, students described feeling fearful and confused as they encountered academic challenge. Furthermore, the students explained the stigma of being an honors student, as well as the unrealistic expectations they often experienced from their family and peers. Contrary to the persistent myth that gifted students will be fine on their own, this study illustrates the challenges students who experienced academic achievement in high school with little to no academic effort face when confronted with the challenge of college coursework. The constructed theory could be used for future research regarding how gifted students experience transition, effective educational environments for gifted high school students, and the effectiveness of various types of programming on their transition to college. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2022 APA, all rights reserved)

This critical race case study sought to examine the influence of an early talent development program on teacher perceptions of giftedness among culturally and linguistically diverse students in Anne Arundel County Public Schools, MD. The central research question investigated was how the Maryland State Department of Education Primary Talent Program (2009) influenced teacher perceptions of giftedness in culturally and linguistically diverse students. Data was analyzed using categorical aggregation to establish themes and patterns among the participants' responses. Findings revealed the challenges participants experienced with assimilating the program goals of the early talent development program and identifying the characteristics of giftedness among culturally and linguistically diverse students. The findings lead to four conclusions: teacher expectations of students were transformed as a result of observing for student potential; teachers perceived talent as latent versus developing; ongoing and differentiated professional development was vital for teacher assimilation of the Maryland State Department of Education Primary Talent Program (2009) goals; and implicit bias was found to be a contributing factor to deficit thinking which lowered teacher expectations of culturally and linguistically diverse students. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2022 APA, all rights reserved)

For decades, education has struggled with the underrepresentation of sociologically diverse students in gifted education. Despite continued development of promising new strategies to enhance programming and alleviate the underrepresentation of sociologically diverse students, only limited progress has been made toward relieving these concerns. A review of the literature on underrepresentation in gifted education reveals information necessary to better understand giftedness, to understand the underlying issues with recruitment and retention in sociologically diverse gifted programs, and to understand the role of the administrator in gifted education. Past research affirms the role of the administrator in the management of special education programs and mentions the barriers to the maintenance of sociologically diverse gifted and talented programs but research examining the perceptions and experiences of administrators is limited. Literature continues to offer recruitment and retention strategies to alleviate limited retention and recruitment of sociologically diverse students in programs for the gifted; however, it continues to overlook the key role of the administrator in the implementation of the solutions and the many barriers they face. In order to fill the gaps in the research, this qualitative research study was conducted using a phenomenology approach with transcendental methodology utilizing one-on one interviews. The study focused on an exploration of administrator perceptions of the barriers associated with implementing and maintaining sociologically diverse gifted programs, and the discovery of why so many promising solutions to underrepresentation are available but sociologically diverse students continue to be poorly served in gifted education. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2022 APA, all rights reserved)

The first of the following manuscripts addresses the experiences of a group of gifted middle school students as they engaged in community action projects that provided them opportunity to become activists in their school, neighborhood, and larger community. This study pays special attention to participants' self-concepts as measured by the Harter Self-Perception Profile for Children (2012) and through participant interviews. The study finds evidence of students' co-cognitive components of giftedness when themes of courage, sensitivity to human concerns, and sense of destiny are applied. Main themes from Harter's scale are also applied, and participant interviews reveal evidence of academic and social competence. While the data do not support statistically significant change in students' self-concepts, specific domains of self-concept see larger increases than others, and participant interviews reveal the students' perceptions of the particular ways they grew through the process of becoming activists. The second manuscript examines qualitative data collected as students engaged in their community action projects but places special focus on the experiences of the female participants and the ways that their self-concepts were influenced by their experiences. This study develops four main themes through an inductive approach to data analysis: academic experiences, affective self, self-concept, and barriers to self-concept growth. A feminist lens was applied during data analysis. The unique female perspective of this study's participants is particularly important to this study. Participants shared their perceptions of their gendered experiences in schools and explored their experiences operating as community activists. The final manuscript features three female participants from the greater study. The participants were selected for further study because of their insightful reflections, demonstrated growth, and interest in continuing their activist work in the future. Interview data reveal that the participants viewed their successes as activists as informative to their development and as powerful learning experiences. However, they described having to overcome much disappointment in adults, the institutions within which they were operating, and society in general. The first main theme, disappointment, seems to be addressed by additional main themes: personal growth, determination, passion, and motivation. Connections can also be made to co-cognitive components of giftedness. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2022 APA, all rights reserved)

The purpose of this study was to conduct quantitative non-experimental research to examine the perceived cognitive and motivational characteristics in math problem solving of high school students across gender in China. Participants of the study have been identified as academically gifted, creatively talented, and non-gifted in mathematics. Specifically, the study examined main and interaction effects of the type of giftedness and gender in students' perceived ability, effort expenditure, value, and self-efficacy in math problem solving situations. In addition, the study investigated predictive relationship between students' cognitive and motivational characteristics and math creativity, and the effects of family processes on math creativity. Descriptive statistics, multivariate analyses of variance (MANOVA), univariate analyses of variance (ANOVA), and Multiple Regressions Analyses were conducted to answer the research questions. The group and gender main effects were statistically significant in the multivariate analyses. Male students reported higher math ability scores than female students in the creatively talented group. The ANOVA indicated that group-gender interaction effect was found only in the math effort. Tests of simple effects for gender on math effort indicated female students put more math effort than male students in creatively talented group. Tests of simple effects for the group indicated that male students in academically gifted group had a higher mean effort score compared to male students in creatively talented group. Furthermore, the results of two-way ANOVA revealed statistically significant differences in students' math creativity among the three groups and across gender. Non-gifted students demonstrated lower scores on the math creative problem solving ability performance than the other two groups. Male students had a higher score than female students in math creativity. Finally, the multiple regression analysis for the math cognitive and motivational characteristics indicated the statistically significant contribution of students' math ability to students' math creativity, while the results of multiple regression analysis of family processes indicated that only parental support contributed to student's math creativity. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2022 APA, all rights reserved)

This dissertation research was grounded in a sizable body of research on identification of students who are gifted, who have specific learning disabilities (SLDs), and who are both gifted and have SLDs, which is referred to as twice exceptional. Four groups of students were compared: those who are gifted with SLDs, those who are gifted without SLDs, those who are average with SLDs, and those who are average without SLDs. Study 1 compared groups two at a time on their learning profiles (achievement on normed measures of reading, writing, and oral language) and their phenotype profiles (normed measures of working memory components supporting learning). Study 2Examined whether each of these groups responded differently to computerized instruction for reading and writing, which is referred to as response to intervention (RTI). Prior research showing that twice exceptional students may score higher on learning profiles but not on phenotype files when compared to average students with SLDs was replicated. A new finding was that gifted students without SLDs achieve at level commensurate with their verbal giftedness but twice exceptional achieve at average level on learning profiles. Comparison of learning and phenotyping profiles was more informative than the RTI approach for group data. The conclusion is that flexible approaches are needed to identify SLDs, both in those who are and are not gifted. These approaches should consider normed measures of reading and writing achievement and phenotype measures of the biological bases of SLDs. Additionally, teacher and parent reported current and past learning histories and response to classroom instruction should also be considered in planning, implementing, and monitoring instructional programs for all students. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2022 APA, all rights reserved)

Throughout the history of English Language Arts education, educators have relied on literature as a tool for the cultivation of knowledge: cultural knowledge, moral and critical knowledge, and knowledge of skills and strategies. The English Language Arts curriculum's increasingly technocratic agenda (Brandt, 2015; Brass, 2014) has resulted not only in the marginalization of literature, but also in the increased instrumentalization of literature---the increased "tooling" of literature toward rational ends. Rather than focusing on literature's "ends," and asking what kinds of knowledge literature might help to facilitate, this project focuses on and takes as its starting point the relationships that comprise the literature curriculum, namely the relationships between readers and texts. By applying a Rancierian lens of equality to literature's more traditional curricular frameworks, I make visible how and when these frameworks perpetuate inequality between readers and texts. Then, using Rancierian equality, along with my own and others' lived experience of reading literature, I imagine a kind of event not accounted for in literature's more rational-instrumental frames: literary communion. I conceive of literary communion as more sacramental than rational-instrumental, evoking a sense of spiritual transcendence, transubstantiation, and giftedness. In my quest to unpack these sacramental dimensions of literary communion, I elaborate their implications for longstanding pedagogical and curricular traditions of close reading, reader response, and emancipation. I conclude by acknowledging that openness to literary communion in the English Language Arts curriculum is, in many ways, a departure from certainty and control. In keeping with the sacramental connotations of communion as well as the spirit of "as if" undergirding Rancierian equality, literary communion might reframe the teaching of literature as a matter of faith. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2022 APA, all rights reserved)

Teacher nominations are the most commonly used method for identifying students for full consideration to gifted education programs in the United States yet teachers receive little to no pre- or in-service training in the practice. Without changes to this reality, teachers' nominations are less reliable than other data sources because they are based on incomplete knowledge or misunderstandings of the characteristics of giftedness. In addition, when teachers have a great deal of autonomy in making nominations to gifted programs, their beliefs and biases can determine whether students have the opportunity to participate in such programs, regardless of the students' qualifications. This contributes to the persistent underrepresentation of students from culturally and linguistically diverse groups in gifted programs. The purpose of this qualitative case study was to explore the decision-making processes used by teachers when nominating students for one district's gifted education program. Survey, observation, and interview data were collected from 20 fifth and sixth grade teachers in a suburban intermediate school in New Jersey. The following research questions guided my study: (1) how do teachers make decisions about which students to nominate for gifted education programs? (1A) how do teachers define giftedness? (1B) how do teachers come to their understanding of giftedness? (2) How might the teacher nomination process affect access to the gifted education program? Three main findings emerged from the analysis of the data: (1) definitions of giftedness varied among teachers; (2) personal and professional experiences drove the decision-making process; and (3) decisions lacked unity because some teachers were left out of the process altogether and others felt disconnected from its purpose. The implications of these findings are considered on the local and national levels with appropriate recommendations and suggestions for practice and policy. Administrators and teachers should seek opportunities for professional development specific to the local district's nomination expectations. Additionally, districts should consider alternative pathways into the gifted identification process including parent nominations and general screening of all students. Finally, there is a need for gifted education to gain status in federal education policy discussions and grant opportunities so that local districts have support for their efforts. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2022 APA, all rights reserved)

Providing equitable education for all students is the responsibility of administrators, teachers, and parents. Even though the MTSS/RtII Framework has evolved from the RtI and RtII models, the basis is the same: intervening and identifying students' needs and analyzing data and programming instruction to meet all students' needs. Even though in the early stages of RtI gifted students were not included, recent literature has proven that it is a must for gifted success. When incorporating the MTSS/RtII Framework with gifted students, this becomes a successful model for all. In order to establish an effective MTSS/RtII Framework with gifted students, administrators have to lead the implementation procedures. This study's purpose was to analyze elementary administrators' perceptions regarding the Pennsylvania's MTSS/RtII Framework with gifted elementary students. The intent was to learn more about MTSS/RtII and gifted students from administrators who have been developing the Pennsylvania's MTSS/RtII Framework with gifted elementary students. The MTSS/RtII Framework that was renamed in 2014 categorizes students based on their abilities from data analysis. Recent literature suggests expanding from the three-tiered approach to five tiers including the high achieving and gifted students. Participants included seven elementary administrators who are involved in the Pennsylvania's MTSS/RtII Framework with elementary gifted students. From the Pennsylvania Department of Education, demographic information was collected. Elementary administrator interviews were completed. The results demonstrate that implementing the Pennsylvania MTSS/RtII Framework requires administrator leadership. Three significant themes emerged: curriculum/instruction, data analysis/assessments, and collaboration/leadership. The research validated the significance of a systems thinking approach to increase effective gifted education with Renzulli's (1978 & 1977) Three-Ring Conception of Giftedness and Triad Enrichment Model. Important points were identified regarding the consistency between schools in the same school district, time, and the MTSS/RtII procedures. This study concluded that more research should be investigated with intervention frameworks/models like the MTSS/RtII Framework with gifted elementary students. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2022 APA, all rights reserved)

This study was completed in order to examine how academically gifted adolescents in gifted pull-out programs in rural Northeast Louisiana schools perceived their programs impacting their social and emotional needs and their self-concept. The major focus of the study was on the perceptions of students, parents and teachers in relation to the social and emotional wellbeing of the gifted participants. A qualitative approach was used to collect and analyze data. Over the course of two weeks, interviews were collected from 10 students, nine parents, 10 general education teachers, and three teachers of academically gifted students (n = 32). Students, parents, and teachers from two high schools (one in District 1 and one in District 2) provided answers to open-ended interview questions in order to answer the research questions. The data obtained through the interviews varied regarding the responses of the participants. The attitudes that the students had towards the gifted pull-out programs varied depending on the school that they attended. Students from District 1 responded positively to the interview questions whereas students from District 2 responded more negatively. The parents, for the most part, shared the attitudes and beliefs of their children. Parents whose children attended District 1 were pleased with their children's educational experiences in the gifted pull-out programs. On the other hand, parents whose children attended District 2 were not as pleased with their children's educational experiences in the gifted pull-out programs. The general education teachers were relatively supportive of the gifted pull-out programs and the student participants, although most of them had no background or formal training, such as college courses, to prepare them to differentiate lessons for gifted students. The teachers of academically gifted students seemed excited about their programs and were willing to learn more in order to help their students succeed. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2022 APA, all rights reserved)

Leadership giftedness continues to be the hidden dimension in gifted and talented education. There are numerous definitions, a lack of clarity for identifying leadership giftedness and an unfulfilled federal mandate for programming. Yet, leadership continues to be a hidden dimension in gifted and talented education, especially for children with promise who are sometimes identified as at-risk. With a nation's need for the development of future leaders, this study used phenomenology to conduct interviews with eight individuals to better understand their insights and experiences with leadership as they faced and overcame adversity in their childhood or youth. By conducting open-ended interviews with each participant, the researcher identified major themes and specific leadership attributes that can be taught to students enrolled in K-12 public schools. Leadership training creates access for a transformation of purpose and a collective call to action through today's children and youth while providing leadership for a world that is unknown to generations yet to be born. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2022 APA, all rights reserved)

This study explored the concept of twice-exceptionality with regard to teacher understanding, their lived experiences and the challenges they encountered in teaching twice-exceptional students in a general education classroom setting. The problem is that twice-exceptionality is a difficult concept for general education teachers to understand and this can be attributed to a lack of training combined with stereotypes, unrealistic expectations, and traditional beliefs that gifted students cannot also have disabilities. The purpose of this study was to explore the perceptions and lived experiences of teachers regarding their understanding of twice-exceptionality and the challenges they faced in teaching students who were identified as twice-exceptional. The research method was a qualitative phenomenological study using face-to-face semi-structured interviews that were comprised of open-ended questions. Participants included seven elementary school teachers who were currently teaching in a school district located in a suburb of Atlanta, Georgia, and who had personal experience in the education of twice-exceptional students. Transcripts were proofed by the participants and analyzed by the researcher. Member checking was also used to triangulate the findings of this study and provide content validity. Findings suggested that while the participants had a basic understanding of the phenomenon of twice-exceptionality, they lacked the confidence, support, and proper training needed to effectively teach these students in a general education classroom setting. Findings also suggested the participants believed it was important to have good parent communication, to understand the child and the disability, and to help the twice-exceptional child learn to understand and navigate the classroom environment with regard to social/emotional issues, communication, organization, and academics. Recommendations based on the findings from this study included proper pre-service training and professional development to ensure teachers understand the phenomenon of twice-exceptionality, its underlying components of giftedness and learning disabilities, and how to effectively meet the learning needs of these students in a general education classroom setting. Recommendations for future research included a larger number of participants at all levels of education, as well as including teachers from all areas of education, including general education, special education, and gifted education. Final recommendations included interviewing twice-exceptional students, their parents, and their teachers regarding their individual perspectives of the education these students receive in the general education classroom. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2024 APA, all rights reserved)

Research in the area of giftedness and stigma has provided a mixed picture of the social outcomes of being gifted. From the perspective of the gifted child, being gifted may necessitate use of certain coping strategies to manage how others evaluate a gifted child's academic successes. Due to these coping strategies, gifted children may be able to avoid negative social outcomes, such as peer rejection; however, a gifted child may have difficulty hiding the fact they are gifted if an overt indicator (e.g., a gifted label) has been assigned to the student. Less research has been conducted on how others view gifted students and if there is a public stigma of giftedness. The current study focused on how the gender of the participant, the gender of the gifted student and the gifted label affect how peers evaluate the successes of gifted students. Participants rated how much effort they thought gifted students expend toward academic success as well as how they much they admire the gifted students and if they would befriend that student. Multiple ANOVA's and independent samples t-tests were used to compare the mean levels of effort, admiration, and affiliation scores. Results indicate that the gender of the participant and the "gifted" label did not adversely affect perceptions of gifted students. However, female participants favored the gifted students significantly more than male participants and in particular, female participants favored female gifted students over male gifted students. Overall, the findings suggest that peers do not stigmatize gifted students. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2022 APA, all rights reserved)

In the theory of positive disintegration (TPD), Dabrowski (1967) describes manifestations of inner energy that serve a developmental purpose and might be more frequently found in gifted individuals, called overexcitabilities (OEs). Most studies present OEs outside of the context of the original theory (Mendaglio, 2012). Atheoretically conceptualized, OEs seem to define the personality trait of openness to experience as each OE can be matched with a specific facet of openness. Descriptions of each facet of openness and its matching OE are very alike. In this paper I argue that they are conceptually equivalent and that current research on openness and OE supports this. The study examined the similarity of OEs to corresponding openness to experience facets via competing models in multigroup confirmatory factor analysis, given their conceptual similarity. O2: Aesthetics and sensual OE, and O5: Ideas and intellectual OE were represented by a single underlying latent construct. High correlations emerged among O1: Fantasy and imaginational OE, O2: Aesthetics and sensual OE, O3: Feelings and emotional OE, and O5: Ideas and intellectual OE; O4: Actions and psychomotor OE had a small positive correlation; and O6: Values had a small negative correlation to emotional OE. Openness to experience seems to encompass OEs; thus, giftedness researchers and practitioners should align with well-researched psychological theories such as the five-factor model of personality (Costa & McCrae, 1992; Goldberg. 1999) and begin to talk about openness rather than OEs. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2022 APA, all rights reserved)

This dissertation details the experiences of the teachers, instructional coaches, and founding administrator of a new accelerated program at a middle school located in a southwest suburb of Chicago. This dissertation is organized into a three article dissertation where each article examines the experiences of teachers, instructional coaches, and the founding administrator. Article 1 explored the experiences of teachers in the new accelerated program. The experiences explored are perception of giftedness, perception of roles, frustrating experiences, need for preparation and challenges. Article 2 explored the experiences of instructional coaches. The experiences explored are perception of accelerated students, perception of coaching roles, training in gifted education, positive and not so positive experiences, coaching challenges and in a perfect world. Article 3 explored the experiences of the founding administrator of the accelerated program. The experiences explored are motivation and prior training, addressing a need, positive experiences, program barriers, and future directions. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2022 APA, all rights reserved)

Twice-exceptional students (Gifted with Asperger’s Syndrome) can be difficult for even the experienced teacher. Robust knowledge of Asperger’s Syndrome and Giftedness prepares teachers to meet the needs of these often-unidentified students. The purpose of this cross sectional survey design research was to study how post-graduate certifications held (dependent variable) affected early childhood teacher knowledge (independent variable) of Asperger’s Syndrome and Gifted/talented learner characteristics. From two large suburban school districts and small, private schools in Central Texas, 242 early childhood teachers (pre-k-second grade) participated in three online researcher created instruments entitled Teacher Knowledge of Asperger Characteristics, Teacher Knowledge of Gifted and Talented Characteristics, and a demographic survey. Using information from the survey, the researcher sorted teachers into convenience groups: Texas Generalist only, Texas Gifted/talented certification, and Texas Special Education certification. Using a Welch one-way ANOVA (analysis of variance), a positive and significant difference was determined between post-graduate certifications held and the early childhood teachers’ knowledge of Asperger’s Syndrome and Gifted/talented existing in the Twice-exceptional learner. Additional research is needed to examine what type and amount of training will equip early childhood teachers in inclusion classrooms with the knowledge to identify and meet the needs of Twice-exceptional students. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2022 APA, all rights reserved)

The purpose of this autoethnographic study is to describe the academic journey of a twice exceptional Black male with dyslexia. The central research question is: What were some of the stories along my academic pathway that seem significant? The research design positioned me inside the culture in which I am the investigator and also the topic of examination. The research methodology employed for this analysis was autoethnography because it is through the intersection between narrative inquiry and ethnography that I am able to articulate my lived experiences using a transformative framework that provided a deeper understanding of how race, gender, giftedness and dyslexia have influenced my academic journey. An analysis of my journey leads to the finding that it is the intersection of identity categories that must be attended to in order to support the learning of students with "triple-identity." The significance of this dissertation is that it has the potential to help teachers across a wide array of academic disciplines who are interested in meeting the needs of students who are marginalized and underperforming in school, particularly Black males who are gifted and have dyslexia. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2024 APA, all rights reserved)

Twice-exceptional learners experience giftedness and a disability. Because of unique challenges from either exceptionality, they often struggle with academic and social issues when transitioning from high school to higher education. The purpose of this study was to answer the following research question: What experiences facilitated academic and social success for twice-exceptional students transitioning into higher education? Using the qualitative method of narrative, four current twice-exceptional college students shared their experiences about what assisted them and hindered them as they transitioned into higher education. Using the theoretical lens of Schlossberg's transition theory, students' personal journeys were explored and common themes emerged: the uniqueness of the twice-exceptional learner; the importance of resiliency; support roles of family, friends, and teachers; and the value of multiple strategies for academic and social success. The results of this study inform policy makers, teachers, parents, disability resource specialists, counselors, and students about highly personalized transitional plans that would best serve this population. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2022 APA, all rights reserved)