This on-line course helps class members recognize, understand, and accommodate the needs of students with specified disabilities, including ASD, EBD, AD/HD, and LD categorical disabilities in the heterogeneous ("inclusive") settings. The course will focus on: a) the most recent development in identification and assessment; and b) research-based program, curricular, and instructional services that accommodate the needs of these four general categories of learners. 

This on-line course broadens the recognition, understanding, and accommodation of the needs of students with dual diagnoses as exhibiting giftedness in addition to presenting with specific learning disabilities or with attention deficit disorders with or without hyperactivity. The course will focus on: a) the most recent developments in identification and assessment instrumentation; and b) research-based program, curricular, and instructional services that accommodate the needs of these two categories of twice exceptional learners. Participants will be expected to learn about both sets of twice exceptionality learners in-depth, but will focus on a deep understanding and comprehensive accommodation (individual planning) for a GT/AD/HD child and for a GT/LD child through the case study approach.

This on-line course broadens information on the recognition, understanding, and accommodation of the needs of students with dual diagnoses as exhibiting giftedness in addition to presenting with Asperger's Syndrome (ASD) or with Emotional/Behavioral Disorders (EBD). The course will focus on: (1) the most recent developments in identification and assessment instrumentation; and (2) research-based program, curricular, and instructional services that accommodate the needs of these two categories of twice exceptional learners. Participants will be expected to learn about both sets of dual exceptionality, in-depth, and will focus on a deep understanding and comprehensive accommodation (individual planning) for a child with GT/EBD and a child with GT/ASD through the case study approach.

This on-line and on-site course is designed to provide opportunities for graduate students to demonstrate competencies as teachers or administrators of twice exceptional education programs and services. The experiences and activities in the course allow students to demonstrate practical skills necessary for educating twice exceptional learners. The clinical practice experience is individually arranged. Areas of competency include the development and implementation of differentiated twice exceptional curriculum; organization, execution, and evaluation of effective identification procedures; program planning and evaluation; development of in-service presentations; family support and training, and advocacy, collaboration, and support planning.