This presentation discusses about the different programs that plays/played a big role in Special Education, together with some of the famous people in the world who are exceptional and (some) diagnosed with disabilities.

1. Programs for Gifted,
Talented and Creative
Children
GENEVA EUNICE MEI G. ARCELAO

2. The African Council for Gifted and Talented
(ACfGT)
 ACfGT’s main objective is to provide advocacy
or loud voice for Africa’s Gifted and Talented in
consultation with the World Council for Gifted
and Talented Children.

3. Asia-Pacific Federation on Giftedness (APFG)
 APFG is a non-profit organization for the
development and education of gifted and
talented children in the Asia-Pacific region.
APFG consists of scholars, teachers, parents of
G/T children, and others who are interested in
development of gifted and talented children
and gifted education.

4. European Committee for the Education of
Children and Adolescents
 European Committee for the Education of
Children and Adolescents who are
intellectually advanced, gifted, talented.

5. European Council for High Ability (ECHA)
 ECHA has been generated by an overwhelming
demand for coordination from most European
countries, both West and East. The major goal of ECHA
is to act as a communications network to promote the
exchange of information among people interested in
high ability – educators, researchers, psychologists,
parents, and the highly able themselves.

6. European Day of the Talented and Gifted
 The European Day of the Talented and Gifted
website has information on the European Talent
Day initiative held in Spring 2011 as well as
information on individual European country
groups that support gifted education

7. International Centre for Innovation in Education
(ICIE) (France)
 ICIE aims to establish links between regional
programmes designed to serve gifted, creative,
and talented children.

8. National Association for Able Children in Education
(NACE) (United Kingdom)
 NACE has specialized in teaching and learning for able,
gifted and talented pupils for over 28 years. One of the
UK's leading independent education organizations,
they support teachers in getting the best from able,
gifted and talented pupils in the everyday classroom,
whilst enabling all pupils to flourish.

9. National Association for Gifted Children (NAGC) (UK)
 NAGC is the UK's foremost membership charity that
deals with all aspects of giftedness in children. Their
mission is to advise, support, and provide for the needs
of high ability children, young people, and their families
in England, Wales and Northern Ireland.

10. Famous People Who are
Exceptional

11. Albert Einstein
He did not speak until the age of three. Even as
an adult Einstein found that searching for words
was laborious. He found schoolwork, especially
math, difficult and was unable to express himself
in written language. He was thought to be simple
minded (retarded), until it was realized that he
was able to achieve by visualizing rather than by
the use of language. His work on relativity, which
revolutionized modern physics, was created in his
spare time.

12. Thomas Alva Edison
He was unable to read until he was
twelve years old and his writing skills were
poor throughout his life.

13. George Washington
He was unable to spell throughout his
life and his grammar usage was very
poor. His brother suggested that
perhaps surveying in the backwoods
might be an appropriate career for
young George.

14. Leonardo Da Vinci
He was fascinated with levers and
gears--so much so that they were
at the heart of nearly all his
inventions--from the crane to the
helicopter. It is also believed that
he struggled with dyslexia.

15. Walt Disney
He is the creator of Mickey Mouse,
recipient of 32 personal Academy
Awards for his animated features
and founder of the Disney Empire
struggled with a learning disability.

16. Tom Cruise
He is unable to read even today
due to severe dyslexia, he never
even finished High School. He
has though, the ability to
memorize his lines and perform
on both the stage and screen.

17. Henry Winkler
(actor, director, producer)
As a child was called stupid and
lazy in the classroom. Bottom 3% in
country, in math, he was thought to
have ADD, he once said "It is not
easy to compete when you have
LD, but it is possible."

18. Magic Johnson
He is a basketball player. Has a
reading problem, "It's a bad feeling, a
lonely feeling" "You've got to take
whatever means are necessary to
enhance your skills. Then once you've
conquered it, once you have met the
challenge, teach back and help the
next guy, because that is what it is all
about”.

19. Bruce Jenner
He is an Olympic decathlon
champ and barely got through
school, diagnosed as a dyslexic
(sports gave him better self-
esteem) he found that through
sports he could hold his head up
with friends and feel good about
himself.

20. James Earl Jones
Although known for his voice, he was born
with a stuttering problem that made him very
self-conscious, and he was almost mute until
the age of 15. A high school teacher
discovered Jones had a gift for writing
poetry, thought forcing public speaking
would help him out of his silence and insisted
that he recite a poem to the class each day.
Jones claims that he still stutters sometimes (it
doesn't bother him anymore) but was mostly
cured by being forced to speak to an
audience.

21. Bill Gates
Some people claim that the chairman of
Microsoft Corp. and the richest person on
earth, displays many characteristics of
Asperger’s Syndrome. They say that he is
famously negligent about his personal
appearance and schedule and that he has
the autistic behavior of compulsively rocking
in his chair, which reportedly began early in
his childhood. He is also regarded as one of
the smartest people in American industry.