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

Um, although I'm I'm also happy to talk to anybody on the phone.

Yeah, I don't charge for that.

I'm just happy to to help people find out where they can go to find resources.

So if people email me and schedule a time, I'm very happy to talk to anyone about their child and sort of give them some my two cents worth on what might be a good step to take next.

Because assessment is not always the next step.

But my main focus of my practice is assessment and educational planning.

And so typically I'll see a child for two or three days of testing, which I make really fun, and then I write a report and meet with the parents, and then I follow them through to help them implement the recommendations on both sides, on the weakness side and on the strength side, because I'm a huge believer in enrichment in areas of strength as

being perhaps more important for most kids than uh working on the s the weakness side.

Sure.

And what and what I think it means is is perhaps a little broader than what some people think.

I don't think a child has to be identified as what I would call globally gifted to be twice exceptional.

And somebody who's globally gifted might have an IQ score of whatever the cutoff is, one twenty-five, one thirty, whatever the the program considers to be gifted.

I I don't think that encompasses all or even most two e kids.

I think a lot of two e kids are a little uneven.

So they might be really strong in in one area, like visual spatial skills or verbal reasoning, but be weak in other areas.

And so their total IQ score might not be beyond some cutoff, but they're I they're still definitely gifted in my mind.

What I think of as twice exceptional is a student who has

A very strong aptitude in one area that relates to learning, and then who has weaknesses in another area or usually multiple areas that impact their ability to demonstrate what they've learned.

So it can be ADHD, it can be a learning disability, it can be Asperger's.

I don't consider Tui to encompass gifts and things like musical talent because it I'm I consider to be more of an intellectual and more of a cognitive processing thing as opposed to a a broad like Howard Gardner's multiple intelligences kind of

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