Dr. Devon MacEachron
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first heard May 2017
last heard May 2017
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Six is a tad young, but I do assessments at age six, seven, eight, nine, ten.
Um, that's great.
The sort of an optimal age would be in that range.
Um I think I think when you should do it though as a parent is when you need to.
So if if you're needing to know because your child is frustrated or unhappy or it seems depressed, or just you're looking for a new school, you're moving, there might be a motivation.
To do it at an earlier age for those reasons, or a child who's so gifted.
I I had one, actually he was Dutch.
I had a boy who spoke eight languages and was doing chess, and he was five years old and he was really bored, and he needed to be assessed at that point.
They didn't know what was going on.
So sometimes it's there's a need that presses to make it happen earlier, but it is more accurate.
And also if you do it before they're in school, you don't really get
the academic piece of the of the puzzle.
You only can see the intelligences and abilities and and challenges there.
You don't know how they're doing in reading, writing, math and oral language.
So it's better if you wait until they're in school age to get it get a handle of that.
Well, num number one, there is rarely going to be a good school for it because you might find a school for gifted kids that doesn't address the the weaknesses, or a school for kids with autism or you know, dyslexia that doesn't address the giftedness.
So uh y there there are very, very few schools in the world that attempt to address both sides of the equation.
So what ends up happening is if the parents are
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