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Time Codes:

[00:00:00] Manisha Snoyer introduces guest Megan Cannella. The duo discusses the topic of catering to gifted and profoundly gifted children.

[00:04:15] Manisha and Megan delve into the much-debated difference between giftedness and profound giftedness.

[00:08:11] Providing an in-depth analysis of the brain development in neurodivergent students, Megan sheds light on the 'second sponge phase.'

[00:13:20] Megan shares practical resources and strategies designed to aid families in scaffolding and organization.

[00:16:43] Manisha questions the often-overlooked aspect of communication challenges for gifted children. 

[00:19:20]  Aimed at overcoming the children's moments of uncertainty or brain freeze, Megan introduces an empowering questioning technique.

[00:22:20] Stigma surrounding 'giftedness' gets tackled as both Manisha and Megan dive deep into the meaning and societal perspectives on the term.

[00:26:36] Manisha emphasizes the indispensable value of understanding how your child processes information over merely labeling them as 'gifted.'

[00:30:40] Megan examines the unique emotional needs of gifted students, an eye-opener for many parents.

[00:38:03] Providing a pro tip on finding lower-cost testing and resources, Megan suggests inquiring at local colleges or universities.

[00:46:01] Manisha and Megan open a thoughtful dialogue on the fear of failure in gifted children, encouraging a shift towards a growth mindset.

[00:49:05] Megan suggests a family activity where everyone tries something new they're not good at, making for an endearing and educational moment.

[00:54:05]  Rounding out the child's overall development, Megan emphasizes the under-discussed need for physical activities in gifted children’s routines.

[01:03:20] Megan shares the self-awareness tool HALT (Hungry, Angry, Lonely, Tired), a practical approach for parents to gauge their emotional state.

[01:08:40] Manisha and Megan explore the potential of AI in creating educational content for advanced learners.


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"Just because a child is performing on an average way doesn't mean that we get to ignore the potential that they have"  Debbie Reber.

In today's episode we welcome  Debbie Reber, MA CEO and founder of Tilt Parenting who is also a parenting activist, bestselling author, and a speaker. We explore the world of gifted children, their unique strengths, and the challenges they face. Our discussion focuses on various aspects of giftedness, including intelligence, academics, creativity, artistic talent, and leadership. We also address the importance of recognizing and supporting gifted kids with vision issues and neurodiversity, ensuring they have the proper resources to reach their full potential. Debbie offers valuable insights on twice-exceptional learners, neurodiverse children, and embracing neurodiversity for the well-being and success of gifted children.

In this episode you’ll hear about:

(13:24) What does Neurodivergence and Twice Exceptionality mean?
(16:28) Recognizing when my kid is gifted but also needs support.
(17:26) Why our educational system needs an urgent update to also attend neurodivergent kids’ needs. 
(22:37) Non-linear brain development: learning how to NOT stress out about learning curves.
(23:36) Dealing with close ones who don’t understand the benefits of home schooling for neurodivergent kids.
(28:43) Changes in the landscape of neurodivergence over the past years and what to expect in the future.
(33:21)“What we want to do is provide information and support, so people with learning disabilities can navigate the world feeling not disable in certain environments…”
(35:44) Owning neurodivergence: fixing mode or support mode?
(38:36) Teachers should be our allies. Providing them with tips and suggestions on how to manage our especial kids is crucial. Remember: everyone’s working towards the same goal.
(43:31) Sometimes school isn’t going to fulfill all the intellectual needs of our especial kids. “Help your child to spent as much time at home in that zone of genius”. 

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Aileen Kelleher is a licensed clinical social worker and therapist in Chicago. She specializes in working with gifted and twice exceptional children, adults and families.

TAKEAWAYS FROM THIS EPISODE:

• Being able to have some distance from your thoughts, being able to not over identify yourself, your sense of self with the thoughts that come into your head and knowing not everything you're thinking is a fact or the truth. 
• Mindfulness practice can help you to start to observe your thoughts without judgment.
• Giftedness often comes with one, two or more overexcitabilites (OEs) as defined by Dabrowski as intellectual imagination, sensory, psychomotor, and emotional intensities.
• Children with imagination intensities for example can find an escape in video games where they create whole new worlds.
• Gifted children often times are treated by adults or by parents as if they are on par with adults. They are being treated as if they have the ability to manage their emotions the way adults do. But they really don't. If anything, as we know, through asynchronous development, gifted kids probably have less capacity than other kids at their age to manage their emotions sometimes.
• As a gifted adult you sometimes have to peel back the layers or undo some of the things that you've developed as coping mechanisms that are no longer serving you because you had to get through a world and a system that wasn't built for you.
• Gifted people often set very high standards for how they believe they should perform or how they believe they should act.
• Gifted kids can feel like they're wrong because they're different as opposed to they're just different.
• If you're a parent of a gifted kid, get involved in the gifted community because parents are a wealth of information.
• It is important to get the whole family involved as intensities and sensitivities of all family members should be addressed.
• When the parents start to heal, the kids start to heal and vice versa and everyone kind of relaxes around one another. 
• It is difficult for 2e children to find an educational fit.
• The main issue of why this idea of being different is so hard for kids and adults, because we want to fit in. We're wired to connect and to belong.
• Social perfectionism, means that you feel like you have to look perfect in social situations in order to be accepted. But the way people connect is often through their vulnerabilities.
• Most of the families don't like the term gifted, it causes an insecurity because what if you don't live up to that standard?
• Trauma stores and manifests in the body.
• If you are a gifted adult know that you are worthy of love and belonging the way you are! You don't have to earn it. You don't have to be smart enough. You don't have to be talented enough. You don't have to be creative enough.
• Show your vulnerability! As your vulnerability is an asset and their sensitivity and intensity are assets. There’s not something wrong with you! 💝

MENTIONED IN THIS EPISODE:

Aileen Kelleher’s website: aileenkelleher.com and Instagram: @aileen.imagines

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Would you like to work with me 1:1 as your gifted and 2e coach? Please send me an email at hello@giftedunleashe.com or find more information about my coaching offer on my website giftedunleashe.com/coaching

https://www.giftedunleashed.com

Femke Hovinga knows which challenges hyper giftedness can entail. Despite a hefty portion of potential, she underperformed for years and developed fear of failure. Femke obtained her diploma by hanging and strangling, after which she followed courses in journalism and business administration. Challenges became opportunities. She trained as a talent coach and from there she specialised in 145+ IQ. At Talentissimo she guides children, parents and schools. She also gives lectures. In addition, Femke is engaged in developing an IQ test for gifted children with SCALIQ. She also works with gifted adults at InterIQ, a recruitment and coaching company for gifted talent. 

TAKEAWAYS FROM THIS EPISODE:

• Gifted children might be underachieving in school
• Gifted children experience asynchronicity 
• Gifted children struggle to deal with challenges & failures and sometimes need to learn how to study
• In Dutch the 145+ IQ group is called “Hyper Gifted”
• 1:1000 is in the category of 145+, a very small group and difficult to find research data on this group
• 145+ are more sensitive and they do not have a lot of developmental peers
• People need to mirror with other people in order to develop ourselves and to learn what is normal. People in the 145+ category do not have a lot of people to mirror with.
• There are big T traumas and little T traumas. If you are so different from the normal population you probably have a lot of those little T experiences.
• 145+ humans need to be seen! And in order to be seen they must be recognised
• Traditional IQ test are not made for gifted children
• Autistic children have lower IQ scores on traditional IQ tests than non-autistic children. With the new IQ test from SCALIQ this does not seems to bethe case anymore
• No time preassure on the SCALIQ IQ test and detect the full potential of dyslexic, dyscalculia or color blind children
• The SCALIQ IQ test is like testing the motor of a car to it’s full potential, not just how fast the car is going on the road (traditional IQ testing)
• Gifted people can have CVs which make them look a bit crazy
• The NAGC estimates that 25 % of children who fall into the gifted range do not finish their education!
• In the Netherlands it's estimates that 33 % of gifted people do not work in a place where they can show their potential
• If we want to solve the big issues of today’s world, such as climate change, Covid-19, world peace, we need to include the brightest talents of our societies 
• Companies sometimes see giftedness as a disability
• Be that person you needed as a kid!
• If you are struggling, please know that there are people like you. Please reach out because finding your peers is important for being happy and finding fulfilment

MENTIONED IN THIS EPISODE:

Talentissimo website | facebook

InterIQ 

SCALIQ 145+ IQ tests 

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Would you like to work with me 1:1 as your gifted and 2e coach? Please send me an email at hello@giftedunleashe.com or find more information about my coaching offer on my website giftedunleashe.com/coaching

https://www.giftedunleashed.com

Learning that your child is gifted may seem like good news for many parents. However, giftedness has its problems and struggles as well, and if you don't really understand what are the inner workings of the gifted brain, you're in trouble.

Luckily, in today's episode, I'm talking with Dr. Jodi Svendsen, who is an expert on the topic of gifted children. You'll learn what makes the brains of gifted children unique (hint: it's not their super-intelligence), and what parents can do to help their children balance the needs and wants of family, schools, and friends.

Sophia Elliott is the founder and podcast host of Our Gifted Kids. She has had a career full of turns and new learnings but found her passion and calling advocation for gifted children and their education. She is a supporter and curator of information for parents of gifted children. She is the mother of three gifted kids and shares her journey and lets other parents of gifted children know that they are not alone. Her podcast and community is just getting started! 

TAKEAWAYS FROM THIS EPISODE:

• There is a need for gifted information and podcasts
• It’s hard to find all the people connected working in the field of giftedness such as teachers, parents, experts, academics, psychologists
• Parenting gifted children is not as easy as the term makes it seem. It’s actually quite challenging.
• Your child is usually all you know so it is sometimes hard to recognise giftedness
• Most parents of gifted children have to advocate and fight for their children to get the educational environment they need
• The higher op on the gifted scale the more specialised education is required because of the asynchronicity
• Gifted people can be amazingly flexible generalists which we don’t seem to  value as much as specialists
• We want to teach our gifted kids to know themselves but how can we do that if we don’t know ourselves?
• We need to give children the vocabulary. They already know that they are different. They need to know why and how and therefore, need the vocabulary
• We need to have a conversation of what it means for kids & adults to be gifted because the experience of the world is different
• Gifted kids are not “easier” or lucky and will not “breeze” through school
• Knowing your giftedness will change the way you see yourself and your experience of the world. It will make sense for the better.
• Gifted children and adults need to learn how to fail at things! If you don’t want to fail as adults it makes it harder to take risks
• You as a parent of a gifted kid has the permission to be THAT parent to have the conversation with schools about your kids need. You have permission to stand up for your child and advocate for it.
• It’s not a reward! It is a gifted child’s right to learn at a pace and stage that they need to learn at!
• Ask the schools if they have gifted students and what they do for them to learn more about the school’s understanding of gifted education
• As a parent you need to be brave and not be afraid to ask the questions and keep looking until you find the right support and school. But it is hard
• Sometimes school miss use the term gifted as high achievers. This is not the same.
• Kids are a gift but not all kids are gifted! 
• Familiarise yourself with the education system for teachers. In Australia only the Master’s program for teachers covers the topic of gifted education. Teachers do not learn about giftedness in undergrad.
• The taboo is so strong and it is NOT ok! This sends the wrong message to the gifted kids telling them THEY are not ok!

MENTIONED IN THIS EPISODE:

Our Gifted Kids website | facebook &

Would you like to work with me 1:1 as your gifted and 2e coach? Please send me an email at hello@giftedunleashe.com or find more information about my coaching offer on my website giftedunleashe.com/coaching

https://www.giftedunleashed.com