Gifted or 2E?

cressievargo

Anyone have kids with either / both of these diagnoses?
The nurse at my son's school (who has a BSN and a master's degree, so she is well-educated) sees him daily to give him meds, sometimes more ...and she has mentioned to me more than once that she wonders if part of his behavioral issues stem from boredom / lack of challenge. He also asks her very in-depth questions about the body/science (she has a book in her office that he goes in there just to read)....
Oh..and my son checked out a full-sized (HUGE) dictionary from the library not long ago. He read parts of it.

He is SEVEN!

I don't know much about 2E (he has an ADHD diagnosis), giftedness, how / where to start..etc. I feel weird, too...I'm not trying to say "Oh, my kid is so smart, he's better than..." but more I am just trying to make sure that his education is the best experience it can be FOR HIM and what HE needs.

lmelangley

Have you looked into having him tested? You might need to pay a fee, but it would probably be worth it. Just make sure he's on board- I know of 2 different kids who intentionally didn't do well on tests because they were moody at the time.

lindsayb0422

My oldest son is 11 and has been in gifted classes since the 3rd grade. Although I have never had him tested for ADHD, I am pretty convinced that he is. He is extremely intelligent however very disorganized and unmotivated when it comes to his school work. He is all over the place with his behavior and just this year has seemed to calm down a little bit. When I ask about ADHD everyone always tells me that he wouldn't make straight A's if that was the case. However, if we didnt stay on him constantly to keep up with his work I don't think he would.

houseofcarpenter

my son is 11 and has been in the gifted classes since he was very small, he's just gone to secondary school and is predicted top 5% in his year - he has aspergers and although he has amazing learning capabilities he is very disorganised and refuses to do anything that the teacher hasn't told him to do i.e if he's been given a project and has been told that getting specific information into it to get the higher mark is optional he wont do because he doesn't have too!?! he's also failing at ICT at the moment because he's sooo bored and they wont put him forward because he won't do the work at the lower level. it's so difficult getting our kids the help they need the more detailed an assessment you can get the better it took 6 years to get my son through the system and when we finally got his full assessment they said in all 4 tests his strengths and weaknesses were the same so there was no question of his diagnoses - it just would have been helpful 6 years ago! good luck

SparkleShine

I really don't know what 2E is...sorry! My son has autism has often looked at the dictionary and encyclopedia for "free time". Now that he's older he googles a lot of info. He is ALL about facts!

primrosehill

Ah, it''s all so familiar! My Aspie son is 8 and has the most phenomenal memory for facts, is flying through GCSE level maths and english and reads the Scrabble dictionary so he can beat us all! Social skills are pretty poor though, as is his ability to organise himself and stay on topic. We had a fantastic ed psych who assessed him because the school thought he was also ADHD, but the ed psych said gifted Aspie children tend to either be overstimulated - i.e, there's so much going on in his head he flaps and talks loudly and charges round the place because of the adrenelin - or understimulated - because he's so academic he knows it all and has to fidget or sing to himself to stay awake in lessons (much like I doodle in boring meetings!). Thankfully we have his giftedness recognised in his special needs statement so they have to accomodate it in school. Having said that, we had to move him from a state to a private school because he was so bored in mainstream classes he started acting up - give him a challenge and he loves it. My friend's Aspie 5 year old wanders round his school during lessons because he's so bored and they tell her they can't give him more challenging work because he'd finish the primary national curriculum in a year - it makes me so angry. Society fails these children every day. :mad: