What It Means to Be 2E and Nurturing Potential for 2E Individuals with Sam Young, M.Ed.
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we have some exciting new information coming forth from AEP Connections, our partners. So if you are looking to learn more about executive function supports in a creative hands-on way, AEP Connections has a brand new course designed by Sarah Ward, and it's a spin on a make and take course that will occur over four sessions, providing feedback and answer questions that you come up with as you implement strategies in real time. They also have two dyslexia courses forthcoming, and that will be a live focus on assessment and co-occurring needs and share some of the best practices on how to support dyslexic students. Another course will be an on-demand course where you will learn what you learned in the first course and dive into strategies.
There's also a course on PDA, which is also known as pathological demand avoidance, or as some people say, persistent demand for autonomy. It's a follow-up on supporting PDAs using a declarative language approach. So that's a little bit about the lineup for the fall. Again, you can have more information on this at aepconnections.com. We also will include the link on the page for this episode. So please check into these great courses and also check into the continuing education credits you can get through so many organizations.
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Hi, I'm Dr. Barry Prezant, clinical scholar, researcher, and consultant on autism and neurodiversity, and a Brooklyn boy raised in the big city.
And I'm Dave. I'm none of those things, and I grew up on a farm in Illinois. But being on the spectrum myself, I have plenty of personal insight to lend. And this
is Uniquely Human, the podcast, a show that illuminates and celebrates autism and neurodiversity.
Today on Uniquely Human, the podcast, Dave and I are very excited to welcome Sam Young to talk a little bit about his experiences and a service that he has developed called Young Scholars Academy. So welcome, Sam. Thank you so much, Barry. It's great to be here. And thank you, Dave. Pleasure to have you on. A little bit about Sam first. Sam is the head of school at Young Scholars Academy, a strength-based virtual village that empowers gifted, twice exceptional, and neurodivergent students to thrive. Sam is a two-time Fulbright Scholar, a TEDx presenter, a keynote speaker, and a neurodivergent person himself who has committed his life to supporting clever, quirky, 2E students to overcome the harmful deficit-based system and discover, develop, and lead strength-based, talented, focused lives.
So you have quite... kind of the journey that you've been on, Sam. So why don't you just share a little bit about your personal and professional journeys, if you will. Yeah, thank you.
Yeah, so I was, like most people in this field, you don't accidentally trip and fall into it, right? It's usually pretty personal. I was at a young age diagnosed with ADHD around second grade and, you know, very much made sense, apples and trees. My dad was like a really creative, quirky artist. Uh, and always sort of struggled to kind of get it together. He'd have these moments of like these fits of creativity. He, this is a super Jewish thing I'm going to share with you. He actually invented the bagel slicer. Um, so before the, he had a Lucite company and before I actually have one of them, not the bagel slicer, but before the, uh, I just happen to have this little planter before the bagel slicer with the guillotine, the kind that most people use.
I use it all the time. Yeah. So
he didn't do the guillotine. This is like, you know, most the good inventions are usually the second iteration. His was the first, you know, but it was just like a little loose site you and had two studs, one side for each of the bagel.
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