Letter from the Publishers

December, 2004

Welcome to this issue of 2e: Twice-Exceptional Newsletter. The main focus of this last issue of 2004 is output – the work that twice-exceptional students produce. While their output can be creative and clever, it can also be meager, late, or nonexistent.

Articles in this issue look at several aspects of output. In considering output speed, psychologist George Dorry suggests reasons why some gifted and 2e children work at the pace of a tortoise rather than a hare. Joan Franklin Smutny, an educator and member of the 2e Editorial Board, looks at reasons for underachievement and ways to reverse it. In an excerpt from an ERIC article, authors Jim Delisle and Sandra Berger offer strategies to use with underachievers at school and at home. Also focused on underachievement is the book review for this issue, a review of Why Bright Kids Get Poor Grades by psychologist and 2e Newsletter columnist Dr. Sylvia Rimm.

Along with our regular columns and features in this issue, you’ll find coverage of sessions at the National Association for Gifted Children’s annual convention, which took place in November. Included is an interview with Dennis Higgins and Elizabeth Nielsen, pioneers in the education of twice-exceptional children.

We regret that part of an article by Karen Rogers in the last issue (#7) was omitted. Readers may find the complete article, Can Schools Do Enough?, on this website.

Thanks to all of you who have recommended 2e Newsletter to other parents, educators, and clinicians. For those others of you who have someone in mind who might like to see a copy of the newsletter, send us a name and e-mail address or postal address. We’ll send that person a sample issue with your compliments (or anonymously, if you prefer).

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We at Glen Ellyn Media wish you a happy holiday season and extend our good wishes for the new year.

– Linda Neumann and Mark Bade, Glen Ellyn Media