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

And gifted kids need to develop the attributes of good character that we expect all students to develop.

Things like turning in your work on time and working well in groups and you know that whole list of things that that we need to become in order to work well in a society.

So the the rights, the responsibilities, and what giftedness means

is the first step of becoming able to self advocate.

Now, depending upon where the students are, the rights might include the laws that are in place or the funding that's in place, or even looking at the mission statement of their school or their school district, which almost always includes as a phrase, something about we are here to help all children succeed or all children be challenged.

And gifted kids must see themselves in that all.

Even though they are d may be very different from other children.

I also like Jim Delisle's phrase that

Being gifted is means you are better at something than another person, but not necessarily does that mean you're better than that person.

Better at, not better than.

It certainly depends upon the family and the child.

And I know people who have decided

to share that and people who've decided not to share that.

Um, I think if we share that with a child as a part of the bigger picture, not simply that this is you and you're gifted because your IQ is 155 or 165 or whatever, but to say, you want the full information about yourself, here it is.

I think we as parents need to decide if that information is useful for our child and if it is when it's useful for our child.

But again, it's gotta be part of this whole picture and that kind of leads in quite honestly to the

The second step of helping our kids understand themselves and moving towards self advocacy, and that's recognizing and reflecting on their learner profile.

Before we do though, I wanna go back to one other question you had and that's using the word gifted.

There are so many euphemisms today for gifted.

I use the term simply because that is the term that um the research has used.

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