Where giftedness and disability learn to thrive: A twice exceptional curriculum

Life is full of change and challenges and for the twice exceptional child this is difficult to handle. Twice exceptional (2e) children and adolescents are those children determined through testing to be gifted, having an IQ of 130 or higher, yet dealing with a physical, mental, or learning disability. Those disabilities are any disability that hinders their living a normal life, such as attention deficient hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), autism, anxiety, depression, or any number of physical disabilities. This combination of giftedness and disability can cause these students to be seen as being lazy or disorderly. Creating a curriculum to work with these students in the school system, where students spend the majority of their days, using Cognitive Behavior Theory (CBT) and Art Therapy is one way to help students work thorough issues troubling them and to help them to heal. This proposal is for development of a curriculum to help students deal with issues of being 2e and healing from any hurts they have experienced that will be administered by a registered art therapist.