Rittenhouse, R.K. & Blough, L.K. (1995) Gifted students with hearing impairments: Suggestions for teachers. Teaching Exceptional Children, 27 (4), 51-53.

Suggestions include: "2. Deemphasize verbal test scores as indicators of giftedness and more prominently include nonverbal, performance scores, and other nontraditional data. 3. Develop an inventory of unique talents among normal hearing students identified by your local gifted program and evaluate your students with hearing impairments against it." (p.53)

 

Thompson, V. (1990) A Girl Like Alice. Sydney: North Rocks Press. (362.41/B565zt)

"As a toddler, Alice [Betteridge] was robbed by viral infection of both her sight and her hearing. A student at the [Royal New South Wales] Institute [for Deaf and Blind Children] from 1906 until 1920, and thereafter in the workaday world, Alice was in every sense as remarkable a person as Helen Keller and deserves like recognition." (p.7)

 

Vialle, W. & Paterson, J. (1997) Maximising the potential of gifted deaf students. Our Gifted Children, 4 (1), 31-35.

"This paper reports our findings from the first phase of a study that seeks to establish the optimum educational approaches and procedures that will ensure that deaf students attain their intellectual potential. The first phase has involved conducting extensive interviews with seven adults who are deaf and who have successfully completed studies at the university level." (p.32)

 

Whitmore, J.R. & Maker, C.J. (1985) Intellectual Giftedness in Disabled Persons. Rockville: Aspen. (371.95/W616I)

Five detailed case studies form the major section of this book, followed by three chapters that discuss implications and recommendations.

 

 Willard-Holt, C. (1998) Academic and personality characteristics of gifted students with cerebral palsy: A multiple case study. Exceptional Children, 65 (1), 37-50.

'Using a qualitative cross-case methodology over 3 years, I investigated the ways in which gifted students with cerebral palsy and no speech indicated their cognitive abilities. ... The participants demonstrated several characteristics of giftedness, some of which were modified by effects of the disability. Personality traits which often accompany giftedness were manifested: maturity, goal orientation, persistence/determination, and patience. Giftedness was also apparent in ways which were related to the disability: recognition of limitations at a mature level, desire for independence from human aides and technological devices, and use of the intellect to circumvent the disability.' (p.37)

 

Willard-Holt, C. (1994) Recognizing Talent: Cross-Case Study of Two High Potential Students With Cerebral Palsy. Storrs: National Research Center on the Gifted and Talented. (Q371.952/W696)

"This study explored the experiences of gifted students who have cerebral palsy and are not able to communicate with speech." (p.vii) Indicators of giftedness are summarised and implications for educators discussed.

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