Giftedness and Learning Difficulties
Many people who have suffered from learning difficulties have gone on to be very successful in life.
The dual existence of giftedness and having
learning difficulties is a double-edged challenge for those students who are affected with this problem. These ‘dual exceptional’ students (being both gifted and having learning difficulties) often feel as though they are living in two seperate worlds – a confusing and frustrating state compounded by misunderstanding from peers and teachers and by the many extra challenges in and out of the classroom
This double-edged special need is also extremely difficulty for teachers to identify, because the two elements (being both gifted and also having learning difficulty) often camouflage each other. Given that dyslexia accounts for almost 80% or more of all
learning disorders, it is not surprising therefore that dyslexia – a learning difficulty with phonological processing, that affects the speed and accuracy with which the child reads and writes – is the most common learning difficulty among gifted students.
Being able to diagnosing learning disabilities early in a child’s life can have a big bearing on their overall journey through school life and even life in general. Sure, a lot of people with undiagnosed learning problems have done very satisfactorily in life, most famously men like Albert Einstein, Winston Churchill, Alexander Graham Bell and Thomas Edison, but even wonderful artists like Sylvester Stallone, Cher, Tom Cruise, Whoopi Goldberg, Robin Williams, Lindsay Wagner, Suzanne Somers, Henry Winkler, John Lennon, Beethoven, Mozart, Dustin Hoffman, Danny Glover and Steve McQueen all experienced some forms of learning difficulties.
So as one can see over coming learning difficulties can be achieved in life with the right attitude and a little help along the way.
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