TPP 149a: Educator and Author Kelly Hirt Shares Strategies for "Boosting" Twice-Exceptional / 2e Kids
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Full-Tilt Parenting: Strategies, Insights, and Connection for Parents Raising Neurodivergent Children
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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.
I think just looking at individual students and knowing that the things that I talk about in my book, they're not that hard and they're not expensive at all. It's basically just having a shift in thinking about us having a responsibility to all of our students when they walk in the door.
Welcome to Tilt Parenting, a podcast featuring interviews and conversations aimed at inspiring, informing and supporting parents raising differently wired kids. My name is Debbie Reber and I'm the host of this show. And today my guest is Kelly Hurt, a full-time working elementary school teacher in the public school system who also happens to homeschool her own child. Because she bridges these two worlds of both being an educator of young children and raising a differently wired child, Kelly has a truly unique perspective on how we can help our atypical kiddos thrive both in school and in life. Last year, Kelly authored the book Boost, 12 Effective Ways to Lift Up Our Twice-Exceptional Children, which was published by the Gifted Homeschool Forums Press.
So today, Kelly shares some strategies from Boost which are useful for parents of any differently wired kid, not just those who are 2E. She also shares some useful insights on managing that parent-teacher relationship that can be so tricky for many of us. So I hope you'll enjoy our conversation. Okay. Thank you so much. And now here is my conversation with Kelly. Hi, Kelly, welcome to the podcast.
What inspired Kelly Hirt to focus on twice‑exceptional children?
Hi, Debbie, thanks for having me. Well, my pleasure. I'm looking forward to talking more about the topic of educating or boosting two-week or twice exceptional kids. And even before we get into more of the meat of that, I just want to let listeners know that though the book Kelly wrote in a lot of our conversation is focused on these strategies that parents can implement in supporting their two-week kids. So many of these are really relevant to parents of all differently wired kids, parents of all kids total, but I think there's a lot of relevant takeaways for our audience. So I just wanted to encourage you to listen, even if you're feeling initially that this might not be especially relevant for your child.
So Kelly, before we talk more about our topic today, could you just introduce yourself? Tell us a little bit about your story and how you came to be doing this work.
Absolutely. I was a elementary teacher for 14 years before I became a parent. I had a son who the people around me were telling me, wow, you know, he's advanced. Have you ever wondered if he's gifted? You know, being a school teacher, I was thrilled to hear that he could be bright. He started meeting early milestones. And then when he went to school, things kind of changed suddenly. And I realized the typical school was not going to be a good place for him. I couldn't figure out why. So I went on a fact-finding mission, and I found out for the first time, even after being a teacher for 14 years, what the term twice exceptional meant. I hadn't heard of the lingo, and I started thinking about some of the past students that I had had
that really, looking back, probably fit the label. They were really good readers, but they couldn't write. They were very verbal, but reading was hard, socially, sensory. There were things about school that just were unexpected. And so I started finding out about Twice Exceptional Children.
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Chapters
8 chapters
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What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
0:00–2:25
2
What inspired Kelly Hirt to focus on twice‑exceptional children?
2:25–4:45
3
How did Kelly discover the concept of twice‑exceptional and start her blog?
4:45–10:25
4
What communication strategies does Kelly recommend for parents and teachers?
10:25–15:16
5
How can teachers create individualized classroom accommodations for 2E kids?
15:16–19:34
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What are effective ways to use signals and behavior cues to support twice‑exceptional students?
19:34–23:45
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How does Kelly suggest parents advocate for accommodations without an IEP?
23:45–28:19
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What homeschooling practices does Kelly find most beneficial for twice‑exceptional learners?
28:19–36:42
Speakers
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