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

concept.

Absolutely, with kids slipping through the cracks, I think it's more more common than not.

And some sometimes you have a a child who has been diagnosed with a disability of some kind and the giftedness has been totally overlooked.

Or you have a child who's diagnosed as gifted where the disability is totally overlooked.

But often you have a child who just seems to be plodding along.

And the analogy I like is it's like a duck.

You see a a bunch of ducks on cent in Central Park paddling along the water and it all seems very calm, but the one at the back is paddling fast and furiously to keep up with the rest.

You don't see it, but they're they're working that hard to try to to demonstrate average kind of performance.

But so how does it start with parents?

I think parents are really the best.

at figuring out when there's something a little bit off.

Teachers, I think, are not quite as experienced at this, but parents generally know.

They they see how bright their child is, how capable they are, and yet they're they're not able to, you know, write papers or or memorize math facts or do things that other children are seeming to do without as much effort.

Um and so I think parents can be really, really helpful in early identification.

before the child gets really, really frustrated and starts to turn off from school and learning.

Sometimes as early as five, but usually not until school age, until they start having to try to perform in school.

So usually they breeze through, um, you know, breeze through unless there's a uh an issue, behavioral ADHD or Asperger's or autism.

You don't see as many issues in preschool and kindergarten, but first grade.

Once there start to be academic demands, children are expected to sit still in their in their at their desk, then you start to see.

see a disconnect between how bright the child obviously is and and what they're what they're demonstrating.

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