Interview with Hanna David about her newly published book Emotionally, Socially and Learning Disabled Gifted Children: Theory and Treatment (original) (raw)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8RXGZXgrT2k Interview with Hanna David about her newly published book Emotionally, Socially and Learning Disabled Gifted Children: Theory and Treatment. ראיון על ספרי החדש: ילדים מחוננים בעלי לקויות למידה או בעיות רגשיות-חברתיות. This book presents the reader with the main inherent problems of double-exceptionality, namely, the difficulties educators and mental health professionals must deal with when working with gifted disabled children and youths. The first chapter describes ten of these problems; on the one hand, some have been caused by unfamiliarity with the basic terms and definitions of giftedness; on the other, learning or other disabilities; some by treatment failures of gifted disabled children and youths. The central part of the book, chapters 2-5, include six detailed case studies of gifted children and adolescents who were dealing, in some cases, with learning disabilities, but in all cases with social, emotional, psychological, and familial issues that jeopardized not only their educational and professional future but also their well-being and even their mental health. These chapters also include shorter vignettes of gifted, disabled young, and older children I have met in the last thirty years. Some of these cases, the longer and the shorter case studies,–are of students considering dropping out of school. This book challenges the assumption that dropping out is necessarily also an educational failure. Some of the cases described did not have a happy ending: they tell young people who unsuccessfully tried to be like everybody else, an attempt that has always been hard to live with. The last chapter shows that only when all components in the child's or adolescent's life, the family, the education system, and the social circle they belonged to, encouraged and nurtured the child, materializing one's giftedness while maintaining a high level of well-being and social acceptability can be accomplished. The book chapter analyzes these factors while showing how misunderstanding of the child's needs and the inability to provide them with the proper educational and psychological help might cause giving up one's giftedness, deterioration in the social/emotional situation, or both.