PO054: Improving Knowledge and Self-Efficacy When Working With Twice-Exceptional Students

  • PMD: 8
  • Cost: Included in Registration
  • Skill Level: Introduction
  • Poster Session 5: Issues in School Psychology, Education, and Supervision

Learner Objectives

This session will help participants…

  1. explain the importance of content-specific knowledge and self-efficacy when working with twice-exceptional students;
  2. identify a potential intervention to improve content knowledge for preservice educators, including school psychologists, for working with twice-exceptional students; and
  3. generate ideas to address individual strengths and individual weaknesses simultaneously with twice-exceptional students.

Description

Learn about a pilot intervention to help preservice education professionals, including school psychologists, gain more knowledge about working with twice-exceptional students (i.e., gifted/talented students with coexisting disabilities).

Presenter(s)

Eric R. Field, University of Iowa

Contributor(s)

Susan G. Assouline, PhD, Megan Foley-Nicpon

Letter to Supervisor

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