Dr. Michael Postma

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Full-Tilt Parenting: Strategies, Insights, and Connection for Parents Raising Neurodivergent Children · TPP 086a: Dr. Michael Postma of SENG on the Plight of Gifted and 2e Kids · 1 Jul 2022 podcast

The fact that we have more research, we have more understanding, we have more uh available tools.

is a good thing.

Now we the the issue is we have to use them and we have to use them in a proper manner.

Well I what I mean by that is um you you want to develop everything about the child, meaning

with um especially with twice exceptional students, they come with a different brain development pattern.

And what I mean by that is um generally with two E children they have high sensory input bands.

and high frontal low cortex development, but they have delayed limbic response.

So the d the system the limbic system, that system that is used to control executive functioning, um, to control emotions, is delayed and hence you get this asynchronous pattern.

of development.

So you have this this child that has a a highly advanced brain but no means to control that brain from an emotional standpoint.

So when I talk about holistic development, I'm talking about also and this I don't think this is just primarily reserved for gifted or twice exceptional kids.

I think all our kids can use more social emotional development in terms of learning those executive functioning skills, learning how to manage themselves emotionally.

Learning how you know, how to organize themselves, how to respond to different situations, how to communicate well, how to um you know, build good habits of mind.

Those should be embedded within our you know, our curriculum.

Uh we we tend to teach to the brain, uh we tend to teach to the head and we forget about the rest of the body.

Um so things like the arts programs and the you know, things like physed and that are so important in terms of that holistic approach and yet we we continue to defund those areas in emphasizing sciences and maths.

And and there's nothing wrong with sciences and maths.

I'm not saying that at all.

But uh what I am saying is we have to look at the entire functionality of a person, meaning we have to look at who they are

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