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Twice Exceptional Children’s Advocacy, Inc.

Twice Exceptional Children’s Advocacy, Inc. (TECA) was founded in 2003 by a group of parents seeking to identify, support and unite twice exceptional (2e) students and their families. TECA’s mission is to help parents understand what twice exceptionality is and help them identify whether their children are 2e. TECA assists parents in finding and advocating for the education and resources their children require and provides a strong, vibrant, accepting community for 2e children and their families.

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Twice Exceptional: Supporting and Educating Bright and Creative Students with Learning Difficulties

This book, edited by cognitive psychologist Scott Barry Kaufman, provides cutting-edge, evidence-based approaches to creating an environment where twice-exceptional students can thrive. Viewing the 2e student as neither exclusively disabled nor exclusively gifted, but, rather, as a dynamic interaction of both, leading experts offer holistic insight into identification, social-emotional development, advocacy, and support for 2e students.

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Twice-Exceptional Students: An Introductory Resource Book

This free handbook, published by the Colorado Department of Education, goes over the strengths and challenges of twice-exceptional students, how to identify such students, programming and instructional strategies, parenting tips, case studies, resources and more.

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Tyler Institute

Tyler Institute provides high quality mental health services by qualified professionals to children, adolescents, adults and families. Anne Tyler, its founder, is devoted to helping children, adolescents, families and adults work through mental health challenges in order to live up to their potential and manifest their talents and strengths in a more vibrant way in everyday life. Her primary specialty is working with gifted children and their families.

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Underachievement in Gifted and Talented Students with Special Needs

In this artcile, Sally M. Reis, Ph.D. and D. Betsy McCoach share their research about twice exceptional talented students who underachieve and provide suggestions about potential interventions.

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Understood for Learning & Attention Issues

The goal of this site is to help the millions of parents whose children, ages 3–20, are struggling with learning and attention issues, including those who are also gifted. They post well-researched, practical information, daily expert advice, and offer a secure community where parents can trade tips and experiences with other parents like them.

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Veronica Johnson, Licensed Psychologist

Veronica Johnson at Envision Counseling Clinic administers IQ tests to assess the full range of learning needs, including children with intellectual strengths that may benefit from higher-level work (e.g. gifted) and children with intellectual challenges that may require specific intervention (e.g. intellectual disability or specific learning disability). She is based out of Castle Rock, CO.

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Westside of Los Angeles Gifted

Westside of Los Angeles Gifted is a group of families with gifted and twice-exceptional children living on the Westside of Los Angeles. Comprised of a diverse gathering of families, they foster long-lasting friendships through support, resources, and shared experiences.

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When Your Child Learns Differently: A Family Approach for Navigating Special Education Services with Love and High Expectations

Advocating for a child who learns differently can sometimes feel like an isolating and daunting task. This book reminds families that they are not alone. When Your Child Learns Differently is a compassionate guide that:

  • Helps families navigate special education services from the inside out.
  • Offers targeted advice to families of children with a wide range of disabilities and challenges.
  • Shares valuable information about special education language, policy, procedures, and supports.
  • Reminds families that they are the most important advocates in their child’s success plan.
  • Draws on the author’s experiences as both a parent and special education teacher.

Accessible and encouraging, this guide humanizes the journey of caring for children who learn differently. Readers will leave the book empowered with practical policy knowledge and energized by the belief that, with love and high expectations, almost anything is possible.

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With Understanding Comes Calm

With Understanding Comes Calm is an organization whose mission is to empower parents, educators and professionals to bring out the best and raise self esteem in their children, students, clients, and themselves through education, tailor made strategies, and advocacy training. Founder, Julie Skolnick, passionately guides parents of gifted and distractible children, mentors 2e adults, and collaborates with and advises educators and professionals on bringing out the best and raising self-esteem in their students and clients.

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Woodsmall Law Group

Woodsmall Law Group is a small boutique firm in the San Gabriel Valley with over 18 years’ experience helping children with disabilities take advantage of the services and opportunities afforded them by the state and federal governments. They provide experienced, practical and sophisticated representation in matters related to the educational and community access rights of individuals with special needs. They are dedicated to maintaining a proactive, client-centered approach. Each matter receives individualized analysis and a unique case strategy, tailored to meet the client’s need. They stress a balance of aggressive representation with the recognition that non-adversarial alternatives can preserve limited resources and many times, cultivate collaborative, long term results with school and regional center professionals.

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Wrightslaw

Wrightslaw is a resource website that includes the Advocacy Libraries, Law Libraries, and thousands of articles, cases, and resources about dozens of topics related to Advocacy, Assessment and Testing, Due Process, Twice Exceptional, to name a few. Parents, educators, advocates, and attorneys come to Wrightslaw for accurate, reliable information about special education law, education law, and advocacy for children with disabilities.

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Wrightslaw: From Emotions to Advocacy, 2nd Edition

Wrightslaw: From Emotions to Advocacy, 2nd edition will teach you how to plan, prepare, organize and get quality special education services. In this comprehensive, easy-to-read book, you will learn your child’s disability and educational needs, how to create a simple method for organizing your child’s file and devising a master plan for your child’s special education. You will understand parent-school conflict, how to create paper trails and effective letter writing. This book includes dozens of worksheets, forms and sample letters that you can tailor to your needs. Whether you are new to special education or an experienced advocate this book will provide a clear road-map to effective advocacy for your child.

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Yunasa Summer Camps

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