Dr. Devon MacEachron

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Full-Tilt Parenting: Strategies, Insights, and Connection for Parents Raising Neurodivergent Children · TPP 055: Dr. Devon MacEachron on Assessing and Supporting Twice-Exceptional Children · 2 May 2017 podcast

I mean you you can usually find an expert to help remediate or find accommodations for some of the weaknesses, but it's the strengths of these children that are going to carry them into their adulthood and be their passions and probably their careers.

So that's what really needs to be enriched.

Thanks so much, Debbie.

I'm excited to be here.

Pleasure.

Of course.

I'm one of those moms who was inspired by her children's challenges.

So I I was I got my college degree in an MBA and happily went off into the business and government worlds and was plugging away there enjoying my work.

And then my kids came along and as things started to uh come out for both of them, um I was getting increasingly frustrated with the the lack of resources, the lack of knowledge.

about kids who are bright and who have learning issues that are impeding them from achieving.

And it it it was extremely frustrating.

We we probably had, I don't know, four or five, six assessments for each child and still didn't have a clear picture.

So I was reading everything at Barnes and Noble and reading everything online and realized that I basically needed to go back to school and get a PhD in it and and to really understand.

So I went back to school at Berkeley in my uh I guess I was in my early fifties at that point.

And um my kids were then in middle school, so it was perfect.

I'd I'd drop them at school, go to Berkeley, study, come back, pick them up, and we'd all do our homework together.

Well, I think it also maybe helped to not focus quite as much on my own children because you can just, you know, go crazy fixating on on how to help them so with a focus on a broader population, I want to help other parents not have as much difficulty going through it all as we did.

So that's m that's my goal.

And I've been doing this now for I guess about ten, twelve years, and I am a specialist in gifted and twice exceptional learners.

Yeah, I I do focus on assessment.

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