Gifted/LD Characteristics - What To Look For In These Individuals

These links will take you to articles that provide either general descriptions or lists of characteristics of gifted and learning disabled individuals. Some articles may include strategies that are recommended by the article's author(s).

Gifted but Learning Disabled: A Puzzling Paradox
ERIC Digest #E497,ED321484 90

This is an excellent article by Susan Baum that has both characteristics and strategies.

ADHD and Children Who Are Gifted ERIC Digest #522

A section of Webb and Latimer's article contains two parallel lists of behaviors associated with ADHD and Giftedness in an attempt to distinguish between the two groups.

The AEGTCCBC's article, "What educators...need to know about Gifted and Learning Disabled"

This web page contains a list by Linda Silverman of characteristics that may be observed in Learning Disabled/Gifted students composed in 1983.

Tammy Ellston's "Gifted and Learning Disabled-A Paradox?"

This is a good overview article to "introduce" the three groups that Susan Baum's article discusses by describing three children.

Gifted Children with Learning Disabilities: A Review of the Issues
Who Are These Students?

Brody and Mills' article provides an overview of three subgroups of children whose dual exceptionality remains unidentified.