Damon falls into a group that underserved. Identifying a twice-exceptional student is more of a challenge than identifying students with one exceptionality, especially in the occurrence of children whose abilities and disabilities mask one another. These students may be performing on grade level, so they do not raise a red flag to their teachers. Addressing the needs of twice-exceptional students involves working with both the gifts and the disabilities. This can pose a challenge for teachers, because often twice-exceptional students spend the majority of their time in general education classrooms, or even gifted classrooms, where teachers are not used to assisting students with disabilities. A challenge that teachers might face in providing
