Referral and placement recommendations of teachers toward gifted handicapped children

Gifted Students with Disabilities: Are we Finding Them?

“…Teacher attitudes toward gifted students with disabilities have been discussed in the literature as critical components in these students' educational outcomes (Clark, 2002;Minner, Prater, Bloodworth, & Walker, 1987). Attention should be paid to assisting teachers in developing positive attitudes toward gifted students with disabilities (Minner et al) through developing teachers' "knowledge of student abilities and disabilities and how these differences affect learning," as well as their understanding of "methods of disability compensation, [and] strategies for curricular modifications" (Clark,p.…”

Serving the Disabled Gifted through Educational Collaboration

“…The gifted identification has been done through the use of multiple talent screening checklists and other multidimensional techniques that supplement traditional identification methods and measures. Evaluation data from the Retrieval and Acceleration of Promising Young Handicapped and Talented project (RAPYHT) suggest that: 1) young handicapped gifted children can be identified; 2) effects of early educational experiences tend to be positive both in the realm of achievement patterns and also in self-concept and its development, 3) parental involvement and approval of the program was high and, 4) program participation appeared to bolster RAPYHT children's opportunities for a mainstreamed education (Kames & Johnson 1986;1987). Yewchuk and Bibby (1989) used nonverbal measures of IQ, teacher nominations and parent nominations to identify dtedness among severely and profoundly hearing-impaired students.…”

“…Rosner and Seymour (1983) contend that teachers "have been unable to conceptualize the essence" of a gifted learning-disabled child. In fact, teachers reading the same vignette about a gifted child (alternately nonlabeled, labeled as learning disabled, or labeled as physically handicapped] felt that nonlabeled and physically-handicapped students should be placed in a gifted program more often than the student labeled learning disabled (Minner, 1987).…”

Effect of Children's Ethnicity on Teachers' Referral and Recommendation Decisions in Gifted and Talented Programs

“…To ensure content validity, all the student traits in the vignette were derived from descriptions of gifted children in special education introductory textbooks by Hallahan and Kauffman (2000); Kirk, Gallagher, and Anastasiow (2000); and Piirto (1999) and from a professional journal article by Minner, Prater, Bloodworth, and Walker (1987). To ensure content validity, all the student traits in the vignette were derived from descriptions of gifted children in special education introductory textbooks by Hallahan and Kauffman (2000); Kirk, Gallagher, and Anastasiow (2000); and Piirto (1999) and from a professional journal article by Minner, Prater, Bloodworth, and Walker (1987).…”