Initial Forum Post: In your post (select ‘Add a New Discussion Topic’), reflect on your own mental model around exceptionalities and how it is evolving. In your post, you can consider exceptionalities broadly, or focus on a certain disability, psychological disorder, or giftedness. Your post should include your own reflections, as well as some relating back to or connecting with the resource you chose. You do not need to respond to all of these prompts, but your response should include at least 2-3 ideas in paragraph format.

• Describe your own incoming and evolving mindset or mental model around exceptionalities. What has influenced this mindset? How is it evolving?
• What position taken by the author(s) or speaker(s) affected or influenced your mindset, perspective, viewpoints, or values? This can include agreements, disagreements, or ambivalence. Please elaborate.
• What was the most surprising and/or unexpected idea expressed in the resource?
• What work could be done by individuals with exceptionalities, professionals, caregivers, advocates, and/or researchers to address issues with disability models or community perspectives?
• What interesting questions remain unanswered about this topic?

Reply Post: In your reply post, please provide a few sentences of meaningful feedback or commentary on a fellow student’s post. You may wish to compare or contrast what they wrote about with what you chose to write about in your initial post. Or, you may provide a similar or different perspective on the resource they applied.