Dr. Ellen Braaten

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969 appearances 3 recordings 1 series first heard Aug 2016 last heard Nov 2023

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Full-Tilt Parenting: Strategies, Insights, and Connection for Parents Raising Neurodivergent Children · TPP 019a: Slow Processing Speed — What It Is and How to Support Kids Who Have It · 10 Nov 2023 podcast

And unfortunately, it's not a nice, easy little concept.

And that's why people are confused.

That's why it probably generated a lot of discussion.

Absolutely it is.

And really almost regardless of what the cognitive ability is in terms of like verbal intellect or problem solving intellect or skills, we'd like to be in sync.

So we'd like, you know, it's much better in some ways to just be average in everything because you're not going to be frustrated in most things because everything is going to be sort of like everything that you interact with is pretty much the same.

But when you're very bright and a lot of things come easily to you

And then your ability to actually execute the task is much slower.

You're feeling frustrated yourself because we don't like that feeling of inconsistency within ourselves.

The other area of frustration is that people look at you and say, well, you're so smart.

Like, why couldn't you get that done?

Like, that was really simple.

And oftentimes when we're talking about processing speed, we're talking about measuring it very simply.

So in the kinds of tests we use to measure it, it's your simple speed of being able to, for example, copy a code or do a group of math problems.

It's not measuring the depth of your thinking.

given unlimited time at all.

So you can have this wonderful ability to sort of think deeply about something.

But when it comes time to actually write something quickly or take notes or do a simple page of math facts, you're struggling with that.

And that's frustrating for you.

And then it's frustrating for your teachers and parents who think like, well, wait a minute, this should be really easy for you.

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