PO242: Piloting a STEM Acceleration Intervention for Twice-Exceptional Students

  • PMD: 3
  • Cost: Included in Registration
  • Skill Level: Introduction
  • Poster Session 8: Promoting Academic Success

Learner Objectives

This session will help participants…

  1. identify the need for academic acceleration as an intervention for twice-exceptional students;
  2. describe how partnerships with academic institutions can create opportunities for STEM-based academic interventions; and
  3. generate ideas for intervention to meet the needs of twice-exceptional students.

Description

See how a university collaborated on a pilot study about a STEM-based acceleration intervention to expose twice-exceptional high school students to lab workshops in neuroscience.

Presenter(s)

Eric R. Field, University of Iowa
Katherine Schabilion, PhD, University of iowa
Benjamin A. Kelvington, University of Iowa

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