Marc Smolowitz
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773 appearances
2 recordings
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first heard Oct 2018
last heard Oct 2022
Marc Smolowitz’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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We're going to look back at that history and try to understand how we got to this moment.
But in the 2020s, we live and work in a time where neurodiversity is increasingly a mainstream concept.
This idea that things like ADHD or visual spatial learning challenges or anything that might be called a learning difference is something that is impacting large numbers of people everywhere, right?
We see movements in workplaces to make accommodations for people so they can be effective and contribute.
We see that some more openness in school settings where people can be effective and contribute.
The piece of the story that has been so interesting for me in the G Word documentary is that space where giftedness and learning differences connect with each other, right?
So, what your listeners may have know about is the concept of twice exceptionality or thrice exceptionality, this idea that someone can be gifted and also have a learning difference that might make their giftedness hard to discover or hard to surface, right?
And
And what our movie uncovers is that there are actually very large numbers of these 2e people in our schools and everywhere, and that many of them are actually being wrongly identified and put into special ed programs, and they're being crushed in these programs.
And we have characters like this in our film.
And what's interesting, and I sort of you know say this openly, is that people who are a part of the neurodiversity.
Movement, they don't always include giftedness in the conversation, right?
And so it behooves the giftedness folks on our side of the conversation to sort of remind them: hey, we're here.
G and T and N are actually a part of the same conversation, right?
Just in the same way that special ed and gifted ed have to all be a part of the same conversation when we're thinking about advocating for better education in this country.
The G,
T and the N to me are completely interwoven.
The 21st century is a century where everything that happens in our world is about intersectionality.
There is not one thing without another thing.
There, you know, whether you're most people have more than one identity in the room when they walk into a classroom, right?
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