TPP 86a: Dr. Mike Postma on the Plight of Gifted & 2e (Twice Exceptional) Children
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Full-Tilt Parenting: Strategies, Insights, and Connection for Parents Raising Neurodivergent Children
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Hey, it's Debbie. For the month of April, Playback Friday episodes are focused on the unique experiences of gifted and twice exceptional kids. These are episodes from the archive that explore how to support a child who is misunderstood, out of sync, or navigating the intensity and complexity that often comes with being gifted or two-e. I hope you enjoy them. Welcome to the Tilled Parenting Podcast, a podcast featuring interviews and conversations aimed at inspiring, informing, and supporting parents raising differently wired kids. I'm your host, Debbie Rieber, and today I'm talking with Dr. Michael Postma, a writer, consultant, and presenter specializing in the education and well-being of twice exceptional and intellectually gifted students and their families.
Dr. Postma is the executive director of Seng, which stands for Supporting the Emotional Needs of the Gifted. An organization whose mission it is to empower families and communities to guide gifted and talented individuals to reach their goals, intellectually, physically, emotionally, socially, and spiritually. He's also the author of the new book, The Inconvenient Student: Critical Issues in the Identification and Education of Twice Exceptional Students. Dr. Postma and I had an honest and personal conversation about the challenges facing gifted and 2e students. And this is one of those episodes that just might leave you feeling pensive, concerned, and ignited all at the same time. And now here's my conversation with Dr.
Michael Postma. Welcome to the podcast, Michael.
Thanks for having me.
Well, I'm really looking forward to having you on the show. A lot of the listeners of the Tilt Parenting Podcast have gifted children and I know that you're the new executive director of Sang. So I'm thrilled to be able to bring you onto the show. And we have a lot to talk about today. So I would love to actually start by hearing about just your background. Tell us a little bit about who you are, what you do, and I'm always curious to know people's personal why for the work that they do in the world.
Okay. I'll give you the uh condensed version of this 'cause it's a long story, but um I I grew up in Canada. And back in the day Uh we didn't have a lot of programming for gifted or for twice exceptional students and I grew up with uh A D D Um some Asperger's and got through school no problem. Um, because as you know, gifted kids can camouflage quite easily. But part of the issue was the social and emotional development wasn't there and that asynchronous piece uh really affected me um to a point where I struggled with depression for quite some time, um, even up through my adulthood. And it was then that When I started discovering Exactly who I was. that I I moved into the realm of gifted education because
There was a lot being done at that time, but not a lot in terms of those that were a little bit different, that were uh not your typical gifted achieving type student. And so that kind of motivated me to go th into the industry and get my master's degree in it and eventually did my doctoral work in uh leadership in in critical pedagogy, um, as related to gifted education. But that's kind of the background as to where I'm coming from. And then having my own children and realizing that they were not your typical G T children to themselves. um really opened my eyes and really pushed me into that direction of of writing and and speaking and uh And b saying has a personal aspect in that it's that really hits that social emotional foundation, which I think is actually the key to academic growth and uh academic you know, achieving that potential.
Uh we often ignore that piece in our schools and it is detrimental that we only teach to the academic, we have to teach to the whole person.
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Chapters
7 chapters
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What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
0:00–5:17
2
How did Dr. Mike Postma’s own gifted/2e childhood shape his career?
5:17–12:04
3
What does “holistic development” mean for twice‑exceptional learners?
12:04–17:34
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Why is social‑emotional growth the foundation for academic success in 2e students?
17:34–22:26
5
How does the brain’s asynchronous development affect gifted and twice‑exceptional children?
22:26–27:19
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What small classroom accommodations can help 2e students thrive?
27:19–36:17
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Why did Dr. Postma write *The Inconvenient Student* and who is it for?
36:17–39:50
Speakers
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