Gail Saltz
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first heard Nov 2017
last heard Nov 2017
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Symptoms, on the other hand, are.
So, you know, if your child is anxious or, you know, why is your child anxious?
Is it because
It takes them a really long time to read something, and they're aware that they're not where somebody else is in the reading, and that makes them anxious.
And then why is that?
What is happening in the reading?
So breaking it down into little bite-sized pieces at the same time, the testing will show you a strength that might not be being uncovered in the classrooms.
a potential for a place to excel.
And that is very important, because while you do want to spend, you know, I spoke with many people, you know, who are sort of on the forefront of this area, and working with kids, you know, who are on the autism spectrum, who are, you know, struggling with an attentional issue, you want to spend maybe 20% of your time working on a relative weakness.
But you really want to spend about 80% of your time working on a relative strength because that is where a child is going to get their identity, to feel good about themselves, and to be able to do something, even as something else might be hard, but to be able to do something where they can invest themselves and fly.
So part of the problem with diagnoses, as you're alluding to, is
They're so attached to stigma.
They're so attached to this negative way of thinking.
And parents, understandably, don't even want to go there because it feels like some sort of a death sentence to be, you know, presented with this diagnosis as if this means now your child can never be successful.
And really, my point in showing all this data is that's simply not true.
But it is important to know where things stand.
You know, it's not genius is not about IQ.
IQ points are one measure of something, but they are really just one.
And in fact, if you look at historically at people who have extraordinarily high IQs, you know, 140, 150, some of them really have trouble being successful people because there's some other issues that seem to come along with extremely high IQ.
You do need a certain amount of intelligence to manifest a certain amount of success.
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