This continuing education course focuses on identifying and supporting twice exceptional students, with an emphasis placed on the barriers and inequities that exist for Black and Hispanic twice exceptional children. Participants engage with content to identify and develop strategies and interventions for their social work practice. A specific focus on the social and emotional aspects of giftedness will be discussed. 

Course objectives include:

1.     Develop an understanding of how to identify and holistically support gifted and twice exceptional children.

 2.     Develop an understanding of the social and emotional characteristics of gifted and twice exceptional children.

 3.     Identify barriers and inequities that Black and Hispanic children experience in accessing education to meet their needs as twice exceptional students.

 4.     Identify how course resources, focusing on twice exceptional children, can be integrated in social work practice.