Twice Exceptional (2e) Resources for Teachers: Recommended Books

Grandin offers helpful do's and don'ts, practical strategies, and try-it-now tips, all based on her "insider" perspective and a great deal of research.

An authorized portrait about Grandin's life with autism and her groundbreaking work as a scientist and designer of cruelty-free livestock facilities describes how she overcame key disabilities through education and the support of her mother.

This is the story of Alex Mont, a boy who is both autistic and very gifted. His father, Daniel tells the story of the fears, joys, frustrations, and exhaustion in raising his son.

Barbara LaSalle's first son, Ben, was an extraordinarily gifted child. For the first few years of his life, he amazed his mother with his brilliance and creativity, speaking in full sentences before age one and reading competently by age two. Yet lurking beneath this boy genius's amazing abilities were a crippling social aloofness and a fear of change......

This is the author's story of her childhood with Asperger Syndrome and several other diagnoses, while at the same time being gifted.

Stephen Shore was diagnosed with "atypical development with strong autistic tendencies" and was viewed as "too sick" to be treated on an outpatient basis and recommended for institutionalization. Nonverbal until four, and with much help from his parents, teachers, and others, he has completed his Ed.D. in special education at Boston University with a focus on helping people on the autism spectrum develop their capacities to the fullest extent possible.

Despite his overwhelming fear of interacting with people, Christopher, a mathematically-gifted, autistic fifteen-year-old boy, decides to investigate the murder of a neighbor's dog and uncovers secret information about his mother.

Fourteen-year-old Nathaniel Clark, who has Asperger's Syndrome, tries to prove that he is a genius by writing songs for his rock band, so that he can become a member of the prestigious Aldus Institute, the premier organization for the profoundly gifted.

Growing up in suburban Detroit, David Hahn was fascinated by science, and his basement experiments - building homemade fireworks, brewing moonshine, and concocting his own self-tanning lotion - were more ambitious than those of other boys. While working on his Atomic Energy badge for the Boy Scouts, David's obsessive attention turned to nuclear energy.....(you decide if he is 2e or not)

The high school students featured in this book are not necessarily 2e, but must each overcome a mountain of personal, social, and economic challenges to complete high school and find their way in the world.

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