TPP 126a: Deb Douglas on Self-Advocacy for Gifted Learners
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Full-Tilt Parenting: Strategies, Insights, and Connection for Parents Raising Neurodivergent Children
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What is self‑advocacy and why is it essential for gifted learners?
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Lane. Hey there, it's Debbie. Today's episode is a special re-release of a favorite conversation from the archives. Unless you're a longtime listener of the show, there's a good chance you haven't heard this one before. And even if you have, you just might get something completely different from it this time around.
Finally occurred to me that we can't just tell our children they are gifted. They probably already know they're different from other kids. But we need to help them understand what that giftedness means, all the pros and cons. It needs to be a long conversation. And instead, the message kids were getting, oh, you're identified, you're in a gifted program. Okay, that just simply means you're smarter than everybody else and you ought to be getting A's. That's not the message we want to give.
Welcome to Tilt Parenting, a podcast featuring interviews and conversations aimed at inspiring, informing, and supporting parents raising differently wired kids. I'm your host, Debbie Rieber, and this week we're going to be talking about the G Word, specifically how to help gifted kids become their own best self advocates. To talk about this with us, my guest is Deb Douglas. She is the founder of GT Carpe Diem and the The author of The Gifted Kids Guide to Self-Advocacy, which was published by Free Spirit Publishing. Deb has been an expert in student voice for over 16 years, advocating for gifted children in the upper Midwest of the United States and beyond. She led her first GT Carpe DM workshop in 2002, and her advocacy for gifted kids grew out of her own life experience as a student, mother, and teacher.
Deb has a powerful approach to helping kids learn how to advocate for themselves as learners, and she is going to break it all down for us. this episode. I hope you enjoy it. And by the way, even if your child isn't formally identified as gifted, this is just a plain good old episode for how kids can learn how to advocate for themselves and the benefits of self-knowledge and self-discovery. Before I get to that, if you haven't had a chance to check out my new book, Differently Wired, don't forget you can download the first chapter and the table of contents at tiltparenting.com slash book. And if you have read it already and like what you read, I'd be grateful if you would consider leaving a review on Amazon or on Goodreads.
More reviews mean more visibility for the book, and I really want to make sure that the people who would benefit from its message can easily find it. Thank you so much. And now here is my conversation with Deb Douglas. Hey Teb, welcome to the podcast. Hi, thanks for having me. Happy to be here. Well, I am happy to have you on. I'm looking forward to this conversation when I initially reached out to you. I mentioned that we've had a conversation about how parents can be better advocates for their kids. But we haven't had this conversation about how kids themselves can advocate for themselves. So I'm looking forward to that. But before we get to the meat of our conversation, could you just take a few minutes to introduce yourself, tell us about your work in the world and your connection to this subject matter?
Oh gladly. I began my educational career quite a long time ago as a high school English and speech teacher and then I was a stay at home mom and then because of my background in language arts was asked to come back and do some pull out programming in the gifted program in the school district we were in in Wisconsin. And I loved doing j junior grade books discussions with gifted elementary kids. It was so exciting. But I began to realize that this pull out program was was very nice, but it wasn't really addressing all kids' needs.
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Chapters
8 chapters
1
What is self‑advocacy and why is it essential for gifted learners?
0:00–6:06
2
How did Deb Douglas become a gifted‑education advocate and what is her background?
6:06–13:14
3
Why should gifted children learn to advocate for themselves early, not just rely on parents?
13:14–19:47
4
What are the four essential steps Deb teaches for self‑advocacy?
19:47–25:25
5
How can kids identify their own learner profile (strengths, interests, preferences)?
25:25–30:47
6
What options and resources (programs, online tools, books) are available for gifted students?
30:47–36:55
7
What practical tip can parents use today to start building self‑advocacy with their child?
36:55–42:20
8
Where can listeners learn more about Deb Douglas and access her workshops and book?
42:20–48:00
Speakers
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