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

That's sort of a typical age.

Although I've had I've had people come in at twenty six who were undiagnosed, um and and were struggling in law school or wanting to go back to medical school or s or something.

And there there was they they were so capable that they and worked so hard that they kind of kept it underneath all that time, but it was very much of an issue that they were fighting all along.

So actually I if just I don't want to get too technical, but um when you said something about enigma for twice exceptional kids, that really made me think of how a lot of people don't understand how you could be simultaneously really bright and not perform.

It's like, wait a minute, you're either smart or you're not smart.

You either do well in school or you don't do well in school.

But actually it's really easy to understand that conundrum when you realize that there are many.

Many different aptitudes and abilities and skills that are involved in school learning.

And what I find to be the most useful way to sort of picture that is there's a theory of intelligence called the Catalhorn Carroll theory, the CHC theory.

And it's the dominant theory of intelligence across the world.

And it's in fact so well accepted that it's become the base for most of our intelligence tests, and many of our achievement tests have all been.

Been restructured to conform to this basically encyclopedia of different kinds of human abilities.

And there are about 30 or so that really are involved in school learning.

So if somebody assesses all of those 30 abilities, which is what I typically do, you can tell, okay, well, this child's having difficulty with handwriting because of its either visual spatial or it's motor or

Or some other issue that's contributing specifically to that academic skill.

So you can tie people's different abilities to academic skills.

And I come up with a profile that shows where the strengths are, where the average skills are, and where the weaknesses are in all of these different abilities.

So you can be, and what two e kids, their profiles, if you do a bar chart, what they look like is they have some really high.

abilities and then they have some really low abilities.

Mm-hmm.

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