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

really wanting to to be on top of it as much as possible, they end up having to take up one or both sides.

What we decided to do as parents was to have the disability side addressed by professionals who could do reading remediation or ADHD coaching, all of those things.

And we took on the giftedness side and did, you know, summer programs, figured out what their interests were, and really provided loads and loads of enrichment in interest areas.

And I think, you know, if if parents are going to pick one area to become

To really put their focus, it would absolutely be that.

I mean, you can usually find an expert to help remediate or find accommodations for some of the weaknesses, but it's the strengths of these children that are going to carry them into their adulthood and be their passions and probably their careers.

So that's what really needs to be enriched.

We had one son who was a Lego boy, totally into building things, and he's now a rocket scientist.

Test.

And we had a daughter who was into telling stories and making things up and creating plays, and she's now a journalist.

So it I think you can encourage confidence, which is really key, because these are children who might, if they're going to school, might be feeling that they're not very good at it.

They're they're usually not at the top of the class in all areas.

Sometimes they are when they get to high school and college, but usually not in elementary school.

And so they need to gain their confidence and sense of self outside through some extra curricular activity or or some interest that really they can excel at.

I I don't think it's always going to be that way.

I definitely think it's the case now, but I think it's new relatively new to be thinking about the needs of of two e learners.

And then the people who have founded the few schools that exist, most of them were motivated by wanting to find a school for their own child.

And so they created the school to meet the needs of their child.

And

That's great, but they might not fit the needs of all two E children.

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