to find this slightly annoying

[2shoes]

Able, Gifted and Talented!

???
as a thread title in the showoff G and T topic

I don't see the problem with it. Seems to be a genuinely helpful thread.

Fgs. YANBU.

But you know you shouldn't be looking in that section, don't you.

not the thread, the "able" bit in the title
(I asked here just to see if I was)

I see what you mean, 2shoes.

To be honest, dd1 (AS) is on the G and T register at her school, but it means nothing to me.

It's not that I don't care, but her academic ability is far less important to me than the fact that she still needs help to use the toilet or that she struggles to hold a 2-way conversation.

When we have her termly IEP meeting, they follow it with her G and T targets and I find it bewildering!

I think thats awful.
I was a terribly unco-ordinated child myself, I heard a mother describe her child as very able, and all I thought of was 'bitch' and thats before ds!
TBH arn't all children able just in different ways?

I still don't see the problem. Children who are good at a subject or activity are seen as able. There's nothing awful about that use of that word. It's purely descriptive and far preferable to "clever little shit" IMO.

well dd is classes as more able, so can I go join thread??

it is the "able" bit that made me hmm
what do they call the other children?

doesn't really bother me. Just hide that whole section if it does. Expect there prob is some smug twattery and delusions going on over there but also think sometimes that perhaps we sn parents may be a bit over sensitive.. I don't think it is consciously insulting to folk with disabilities or the bog standard masses. They're just in their own bubble of brilliance ;)

Winds me up a tad when I hear that being terribly gifted is just like having a special need tho

Although having able in the title is not especially meaningful or owt to shout about really is it? I'm able to do loads of stuff- doesn't neccesarilly reflect exceptional talents in those areas

See I don't see able as being descriptive of anything. Just means 'can do' as far as I'm concerned. So disabled just the converse

"what do they call the other children?"

Average. Typical. Less able. Whatever fits the situation. But some children are more able at some things than others, just as much as some struggle a lot more than others.

The same can be said of doctors and therapists and even of teachers, as we all know too well.

Able and Gifted/talented are 2 different categories at schools.

Very very very few children are G&T by the (quite strict ed. criteria). There are some extremely gifted and artistic children who are offered extra art at my school.

By contrast, 'able' children are fairly plentiful.

I dunno, give some parents a little bit of knowledge and they get all up themselves...