Scott Barry Kaufman

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Full-Tilt Parenting: Strategies, Insights, and Connection for Parents Raising Neurodivergent Children · TPP 139: Psychologist and Author Scott Barry Kaufman, PhD on Redefining Giftedness and Intelligence · 8 Jan 2019 podcast

You know, assess their character strengths.

You know, like have them take the character strength survey, see where their top three strengths are, and then do, sure, do your whole work up, your battery.

Don't focus on the global IQ score.

And there are a lot, it's really moving that trend in educational psychology to really look at the individual scatter of subtest scores.

But don't just look at the subtest scores on an IQ test.

gain information about that child's personal goals, their classes that they're more or less engaged in, their social situation, whether or not they're bullied, whether or not they have anxiety.

See, here's the interesting thing is that it was put in my IEP, he needs to forever be in special education because he's an anxious person.

Well, that's one way of viewing the situation.

But another way of viewing the situation is this kid is anxious because we've told him he's learning to be disabled.

As any normal human being, it's a natural reaction to any normal human being saying that you're not capable of doing anything in your life.

Therefore, what we need to do, our task is to reduce his anxiety by showing him his highest strengths.

Now, that's a whole different way of framing the whole IEP, the whole purpose of education of that child than the way that it normally is treated.

It absolutely is.

I mean, that's why there's prejudice.

It serves us well in a lot of instances.

Like imagine going through the world where you couldn't categorize anything into any category, you would be sitting on people instead of chairs.

Do you know what I mean?

So clearly that's not, it did serve us well in the course of human evolution, but it leads us astray.

And it, especially in a school system where the categorization purpose is to, is to really target certain level of challenge, little content based on a paucity of information about the child.

That's very problematic because you're setting up,

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