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Feetspeak: 2E Shoes

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How an injured ankle, Gagne's DMGT model and De Bono’s Six Action Shoes helped me consider the needs of Twice Exceptional (2E) students: those who are gifted and have a learning disability

Is there an ideal education program to cater for the needs of students who are both gifted and have a learning disability or difference?

The Feetspeak: 2E Shoes Project began life as a short chatty blog entry about Jo’s injured ankle and difficulty in finding shoes which could cater for both feet and the connection to finding programs for 2E students.

However as she read articles on the topic and started to investigate the type of programs available for both gifted and learning disabled students using Edward De Bono’s Six Action Shoes as a framework to consider courses of action; Jo discovered the reasons it is so difficult to cater simultaneously for both the gifted and learning disabled aspects of the twice exceptional student and also found some helpful practical strategies.

Jo has drawn on the analogies of a lame cheetah and an injured ankle and used De Bono's Six Action Shoes and Gagne's Differentiated Model of Giftedness and Talent to investigate the types of gifted programs and their suitability for students who also have a learning disability or difference.

The Presentation includes use of Mind Maps and animations, PowerPoints and cartoons developed by Jo

Sessions include the use of Mind Maps, the animations, PowerPoints and cartoons as well as practical application exercises related to building programs and teaching strategies for 2E students using thinking tools such as S.C.A.M.P.E.R.

References for Feetspeak 2E shoes

BAUM, Susan M., Owen, Steve V. and Dixon, John
To be gifted& learning disabled Melbourne, Hawker Brownlow Education, c.1993

COWIE, Maxine Breaking the cycle of learning difficulties c. Starjump 2003

DE BONO, Edward Six Action Shoes" © The McQuaig Group 1991 Harper Business 1991

GAGNE Francoys PhD A Differentiated Model of Giftedness and Talent (DMGT) Version 2.0
http://www.templetonfellows.org/program/FrancoysGagne.pdf

GOLON, ALEXANDRA SHIRES For her books see http://www.visual-learners.com/books-visual-spatial-learners.html

MARTIN, Areva D. The 2e Dilemma: Understanding and Educating the Twice-Exceptional Child This article first appeared in the June 2006 issue of Los Angeles Parent Magazine http://www.2enewsletter.com/article_2e_dilemma.html

NEUMANN, Linda C. What Can We Learn from a Tale of Two Cities?
h ttp://www.2enewsletter.com/article_two_cities.html

SILVERMAN, Linda Kreger Upside-Down Brilliance Denver Colorado, DeLeon, 2002

SINGER, Lee If Gifted = Asynchronous Development, then Gifted/Special Needs = Asynchrony Squared From Uniquely Gifted: Identifying and Meeting the Needs of Twice Exceptional Students, Kiesa Kay ed., Avocus Publishing: Gilsum, NH, 2000.
http://www.hoagiesgifted.org/asynchrony_squared.htm

STRICKLAND, Cindy Living and learning with Dabrowski's overexcitabilities or I can't help it I'm overexcitable A teaching unit by Cindy Strickland
http://www.hoagiesgifted.org/living_with_oes.htm

TOLAN, Stephanie Is it a cheetah? c1996 Stephanie S. Tolan http://www.stephanietolan.com/is_it_a_cheetah.htm

TOLAN, Stephanie Dabrowski's Over-excitabilities A layman's explanation
Written for Hoagies' Gifted Education Page, February, 1999
http://www.stephanietolan.com/dabrowskis.htm

TOLAN, Stephanie The problem of pain
Revised, originally published in the Gifted Education Communicator (California Association for the Gifted), Volume 31, No. 4, Fall 2000 http://www.stephanietolan.com/problem_of_pain.htm

Website references for Feetspeak 2E shoes

Edward De Bono
http://www.edwdebono.com/index.html

De Bono Institute Melbourne
http://www.debono.org/

Francoys Gagne's DMGT model 2.0 version
http://www.templetonfellows.org/program/FrancoysGagne.pdf

2E Newsletter
http://www.2enewsletter.com/topic_about.html
http://2enewsletter.blogspot.com.au/

LD Online http://www.ldonline.org/

Dr Linda Kreger Silverman http://www.gifteddevelopment.com/

Lesley Sword http://giftedservices.com.au/handouts/index.html

Twice exceptional (Hoagies list of sites)
http://www.hoagiesgifted.org/twice_exceptional.htm

(Gifted Resources list of sites)
http://www.giftedresources.org/gr/webgifgld.htm

Visual spatial Allie Golon http://www.visualspatial.org/

Meredith Warshaw http://www.uniquelygifted.org

Maxine Cowie www.starjump.com.au

Stephanie Tolan http://www.stephanietolan.com

Drs Brock & Fernette Eide Neurolearning Blog http://www.eideneurolearningblog.blogspot.com/

Kids Like Us http://www.kidslikeus.org.au/

The Visual Aids

The Visual Aids - Mini Set

Edward De Bono's Six Action Shoes

CLICK HERE or on the image above to open the PDF File
describing the types of gifted program which would be developed using
De Bono's 6 Action Shoes as the planning tool

Blog posts about Feetspeak 2E shoes

Blog posts about the De Bono 6 Action Shoes and other Feetspeak footwear can be found on
Sprite's Site blog at

Topics included in Feetspeak 2E shoes

Distinguishing characteristics of Gifted and 2E

                       Gagne's Differentiated Model of Giftedness and Talent
               How does your gifted program measure up?
                       Which shoe colour elements do you include?

AdDressing the Feetspeak feet
Building an individualized 2E program

S.C.A.M.P.E.R. Thinking about possible
methods of adapting material for 2E students

Carrying Stuff - a look at the emotional baggage, intensities and
sensitivities 2E students could be carrying

                      Good King Wenceslas and the Purple Riding Boots
                       Leadership skills programs   Biographies, EUMY units
                       Night of the Notables and Mentors and Mentor Programs eg PLIESE

               Sprite's Site Blog

                 Sprite, the cartoon character who is the poster child for the Feetspeak presentations, has taken on a life
                 of her own and now has her own Blog and presentations based on her

                You can read about the character of Sprite at About Sprite

                Most of the storylines on the blog are about Sprite and are used to help provide information about 2E Twice Exceptional students who are both gifted and have some
                learning difficulty or learning style difference and to give links to helpful resources.

Sprite’s giftedness is apparent in her thirst for knowledge and love of research and experiments and in the deep, sometimes existential type questions she asks.
http://spritessite.wordpress.com/2009/08/14/elephants-in-the-waiting-room/

              Storylines on the blog often deal with trying to find ideal provisions for Sprite’s education and advocating for her
              http://spritessite.wordpress.com/2011/02/12/casting-sprites-education-in-a-new-form-part-1/

               http://spritessite.wordpress.com/2012/07/11/advocacy/

              http://spritessite.wordpress.com/2012/09/11/the-meeting/

A main theme is using De Bono’s Six Action Shoes as a planning tool to find programs that will be suitable for gifted students who also have a learning difficulty
or different learning style.

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