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- Volume 24
- Issue 3
- Publication Date: Summer 2001
- Page Number(s): 56-63
- DOI: 10.4219/gct-2001-538
Surviving or Thriving? 21 Gifted Boys With Learning Disabilities Share Their School Stories
Mary Ruth Coleman
For many gifted students school is a place to flex the mind, to show accomplishments, to have fun, and to demonstrate abilities. Teachers often view gifted students as outstanding performers and see these students as top picks for their classes. Yet, not all gifted students thrive in school. For gifted students with learning disabilities, school is not always the most comfortable place. Thirty years ago, Thompson (1971) in his article “Language Disabilities in Men of Eminence” drew our attention to a very special group of gifted individuals whose outstanding abilities were coupled with moderate to profound disabilities. Thompson was one of the first to give us examples of people with this dual manifestation and to share the stories of several successful men whose early lives were riddled with school problems. Among those he discussed were Harvey Cushing, an eminent brain surgeon whose spelling deficiency followed him into adulthood; sculptor, Auguste Rodin, whose father was convinced that his son was uneducable; and bacteriologist Paul Ehrlich, whose failure on the language portion of his preparatory examination almost kept him out of college.
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