Letter from the Publishers

September, 2007

Welcome to the back-to-school issue of 2e: Twice-Exceptional Newsletter! In this September issue we focus on some tools for teaching twice-exceptional students. One of the tools is the TLC process, developed by Susan Baum and Robin Schader. It’s an approach to meeting the needs of 2e students through parent/teacher collaboration. The other tool we look is RTI, Response-to-Intervention, a process for identifying “at-risk” students and providing the support they need before these students experience failure. Educator Beverly Trail looks at how RTI can benefit 2e students, plus we provide some additional articles to help explain Response-to-Intervention.

This issue also features an interview with Jonathan Mooney, who bills himself as a dyslexic writer and activist. Jonathan, author of The Short Bus: A Journey Beyond Normal, has recently received plenty of media attention for his travels across the county in a converted short bus, the kind of school bus that kids in special education ride to and from school. Jonathan’s book is a chronicle of his journey as well as a look back at what it was like to grow up twice exceptional.

Along with our regular columns and features, you’ll find a new column called Parent’s Perspective. Columnists will rotate, each writing about their unique view of parenting twice-exceptional children. Our first columnist is Sarah Garrison, who offers her perspective on homeschooling.

We enjoyed meeting a number of our subscribers and supporters in July at the SENG conference in Kansas. You’ll find conference coverage in this issue and on our website.

We thank you for reading and supporting 2e Newsletter.

Welcome to the November issue of 2e: Twice-Exceptional Newsletter! The focus of this issue is on ways of helping 2e kids with Asperger Syndrome (AS). In our lead article, educators Erin Lane and Doreen Underwood describe the role that the school counselor can play in helping teachers and parents understand and meet the needs of gifted Asperger students. Several articles on service dogs describe how these animals are beginning to play an important role in providing AS children with both physical and emotional support. In an interview with therapist Brian King, we see the importance of giving AS teens a place where they can find peers and acceptance.

Along with our regular columns and features, this issue includes coverage from two conferences, a regional conference on AD/HD presented by the Attention Deficit Disorder Association (ADDA) and the 54th annual convention of the National Association for Gifted Children (NAGC). The NAGC session reported on in this issue is  one of the many sessions 2e Newsletter covered. Look for coverage of others in the coming weeks on our website and in our next issue.

We enjoyed having the opportunity to see and meet subscribers and friends of 2e Newsletter at the NAGC conference. We appreciate your kind words, support, and suggestions for the newsletter. Please feel free to let us know what you’d like to see in future issues – either in person when we meet at conferences or by e-mail.

We thank you for reading 2e Newsletter.