TPP 055a: Dr. Devon MacEachron on Assessing and Supporting Twice-Exceptional Children
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Full-Tilt Parenting: Strategies, Insights, and Connection for Parents Raising Neurodivergent Children
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What is the purpose of the Tilt Parenting podcast and who is the guest Dr. Devon MacEachron?
Hey there, it's Debbie and welcome to Playback Friday. I'm going back into the archives and re-releasing some of my favorite conversations from years ago every Friday. Unless you're a longtime listener of the show, there's a good chance you haven't heard this one yet. And even if you are, you just may get something completely different from listening to it this time around. Here you go and enjoy the show.
I mean, you can usually find an expert to help remediate or find accommodations for some of the weaknesses, but it's the strengths of these children that are going to carry them into their adulthood and be their passions and probably their careers. So that's what really needs to be enriched.
Welcome to the Tilt Parenting Podcast, a podcast featuring interviews and conversations aimed at inspiring, informing and supporting parents raising differently wired kids. I'm your host, Debbie Reber. And today I'm talking with Dr. Devin McEachran, a clinician, researcher, author and speaker who specializes in assessing and supporting twice exceptional learners. As she'll tell you in our conversation, Devin actually went back to school to get her PhD as part of her own journey in trying to support her own differently wired children. Since then, she's founded a private psychology practice in New York City where she meets the psychoeducational assessment and educational planning needs of the families of bright learners.
Her mission is to help position these awesome students to achieve their goals and dreams and to help parents feel confident they're doing their best for their kids. Before we get into our conversation a quick public service announcement. If you like what we're doing here through the Tilt Parenting Podcast, please consider supporting us through our Patreon campaign. My goal is to ultimately outsource the most time-consuming aspects of podcast production, and I am very close to being able to do that. If you're a regular listener and get value out of our podcast, even a modest contribution can make a big difference. Just visit patreon.com slash tiltparenting for more information. Thank you for considering and for being a part of our audience.
And now let's get on with the show. Hey, Devin, welcome to the show.
Thanks so much, Debbie. I'm excited to be here.
Well, I am excited to have you on the show. And also, I know you've been super busy since the new year. So I just want to thank you for making the time to talk with us today.
Pleasure.
So before we get into this, and I want you to know this is kind of a hot topic. I posted on the Tilt Facebook page that I was going to be speaking with an expert in twice exceptional assessment and education, and I got a lot of comments and questions. So we'll see what we can get through. But before we get into that, would you mind just taking a few minutes to walk us through your background? Tell us a little bit about who you are, what you do, and maybe how you got into doing this work.
Of course. I'm one of those moms who was inspired by her children's challenges. So I was I got my college degree in an MBA and happily went off into the business and government worlds and was plugging away there, enjoying my work. And then my kids came along and as things started to come out for both of them. I was getting increasingly frustrated with the lack of resources, the lack of knowledge about kids who are bright and who have learning issues that are impeding them from achieving. And it was extremely frustrating. We probably had, I don't know, four or five, six assessments for each child and still didn't have a clear picture. So I was reading everything at Barnes and Noble and reading everything online and realized that I basically needed to go back to school and get a Ph.D.
in it and to
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understand. So I went back to school at Berkeley in my I guess I was in my early 50s at that point. And my kids were then in middle school. So it was perfect. I dropped them at school, go to Berkeley study, come back, pick them up, and we'd all do our homework together.
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