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

One of the biggest complaints I have from gifted kids is that um working in groups is so difficult when they're always expected to carry the heavy load or be the leader or be the instructor.

And so many times they say, I just wanna be with somebody who likes this as much as I do, as passionate, or maybe challenges my thinking a little.

And then the fourth area.

And some of them want to change either home or school to adapt them to their personal characteristics we're talking about.

So it might be as simple as that girl saying to the teacher, This light above me is buzzing and it really bothers me.

Can I just change my desk to the other side of the room?

Or something as simple as the young woman who was a night owl changing her class schedule to better accommodate her w her sleep c cycle.

Or or somebody setting up a quiet study place in their home or putting together a a group with a school counselor on perfectionism and those kind of things, a lot of the kids decide that that's the first thing they want to tackle, not an academic challenge.

Well and I like the fact that they leave the workshop, as I said, with a plan, a real simple action plan, but simply what are the steps that I have to carry out in order to get achieve my goal?

And then who's gonna take these steps?

And they can start out with

Me and Mrs.

Douglas.

are going to uh uh do these first few steps and then they begin to see how some of the steps they can take over themselves and eventually be the initiator of those changes.

And then the third part of their action plan is simply a date by which it's gonna be done because believe it or not, being gifted does not necessarily mean you're organized.

And being gifted um does not preclude being a procrastinator.

So tranquily, just having those dates of when it's going to be done that be can be checked off.

And for many kids, that really is, as simple as it sounds, the key to making the change.

And then as you said before, you get to the end of this and if you haven't made the changes you want to change, then you regear.

Do we go back and do do we find a different way of achieving this?

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