Dr. Melanie Hayes
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704 appearances
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first heard Dec 2019
last heard Feb 2022
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So we're always looking at what are their strengths first.
We're not looking at the deficits.
It's not that we don't
Recognize that they're there.
But for example, um, if you have someone in who has dysgraphia and fine motor skills issues and their whole
school career has been, you know, focused on trying to get them to be uh do better at handwriting.
they've missed out on all the chance to do the things that they do the best.
And so we're just gonna go around that roadblock.
We're gonna either use technology or we'll find some other way for them to demonstrate their knowledge.
So the so the strengths based it's not about setting a curriculum for these kids.
Certainly if we did it sort of the back end and looked at the common core curriculum, we could attach what they're learning to that curriculum.
But we find that really restrictive 'cause, you know, two E kids, if they're really fascinated and interested in something, they can blow through a year's worth curriculum in like a month or two.
Um I've seen kids who suddenly
found out about calculus who loved math and and went through a whole calculus curriculum in two months.
So it's kinda hard to try to set a year long curriculum when each child has this
both asynchronous development and the capacity to
learn stuff at such a rapid acceleration.
So
We don't have a set curriculum that curriculum that way.
The way we do it is
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