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

So I thought, okay, well he'll do a a gifted summer program at Johns Hopkins and let's see if he's ADHD there.

And sure enough he wasn't, because it was the environment that he was in that was making him

display those ADHD like behaviors in his regular school.

Whereas in an environment where he was more challenged, he didn't demonstrate those behaviors.

So you I think you have to look at the child and look at the environment they're in.

before you make try to make any determination of whether they have something or they don't.

And then also really factor in the views of different people because a lot of these diagnoses are based on behavioral scales.

And I just had a case where um eight different teachers provided feedback on a child.

Four of them said this child had autism and ADHD, and four of them said she was perfectly fine.

Come out.

So so you end up with varied opinions based on the the teacher's perspective, the way the child is in that class.

It's a complex interaction of the person and the environment.

Does that make sense?

It depends.

I end up with a lot of people who've been who come to me because their child has been misdiagnosed or or they haven't gotten good recommendations from the assessment.

So often I see kids who have been seen before multiple times.

But then sometimes I have people who've never never been assessed before.

And um I think it's not that difficult if you do a thorough assessment and really look at the child's history and observe them in different

different environments and get feedback from a lot of different people to get a handle on what's really going on.

At least that's my mission.

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