Deb Douglas

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Full-Tilt Parenting: Strategies, Insights, and Connection for Parents Raising Neurodivergent Children · TPP 126: Deb Douglas on Self-Advocacy for Gifted Learners · 8 Sep 2018 podcast

So those are the learning preferences.

And then the fifth category is personality characteristics.

And then when I'm working on with gifted kids, I really like to focus on some of the personality characteristics that are typical of some or all gifted kids.

So we talk about optimism and pessimism.

We talk about introversion and extroversion.

knowing that according to Linda Silverman, uh, maybe as much as two thirds of the general population is extroverted, but two thirds of the gifted population is introverted.

So what bearing does that have on a gifted child's needs in the educational system?

We also talk about overexcitabilities and I can't tell you how many heads start nodding when we talk about things like, you know, does that seam in your sock bother you?

Does the tag in the back of your shirt bother you?

And kids will say things like, you know, I never thought about it, but doesn't doesn't that buzzing light above us bother all of you?

And some kids will go, What buzzing light?

And so those sensory, emotional

psychomotor overexcitabilities that may impact students' educational setting they need to be aware of and they need to also feel like normalized.

And that's one of the fun things about having gifted kids together in my workshops is they may not know each other but they leave feeling they have this great peer group because they've networked with kids who who they understand who understand them and they have more similarities with than many of the kids in the regular classrooms.

I would agree.

And I think the trend in some places right now towards personalized learning allows teachers to help students reflect on their learner profiles in that way.

And I I agree, it's valuable for all of us.

In fact, um when I and other adults are in the workshop, we're always discovering new things about ourselves and new awarenesses.

Sure.

Um the interesting thing for us as parents, however, is

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