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Hoagies' Blog Hop: Misdiagnosis Initiative
 The
Misdiagnosis Initiative. Founded by
SENG, the
Misdiagnosis Initiative
reduces the risk of medical misdiagnosis of gifted individuals,
whether a twice-exceptional child whose giftedness is overlooked
due to their disability - or vice versa.
Is your child "just" gifted, or twice exceptional? Does the
diagnosis he's received make sense with the boy you see every
day? Does the lack of a diagnosis make sense with the girl you
love and live with? Gifted kids can be misdiagnosed. Some are
diagnosed as having learning differences such as ADHD or High
Functioning Autism, but are really just gifted, or bored and
gifted kids. Others are not diagnosed, when they struggle with
Executive Functioning (EF), social skills or other learning
challenges.
Don't miss our previous Blog Hops,
including
2e Kids,
and Gifted Advocacy.
To read all our past Blog Hops or join our next Blog Hop, visit
Blog Hops for our past and future topics.
Special thanks to Pamela S. Ryan for our striking Blog Hop graphics!
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Misdiagnosis: What we see and what we don't by
Gift-Ed Connections
- Having worked with gifted children for 14 years of my career, I have come
to understand that for many it can be hard to "see" children who are gifted.
There are plenty of archetypes that that can inform understanding as well as
varying definitions that can predispose us in a particular way and so it
isn't surprising when people are confused or frustrated by what it means and
doesn't mean to be labelled "gifted". I was reminded of this the other day
when a colleague sent me a link...
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 The
Tyranny of Pathologizing Our Kids by Heather, The Fringy
Bit
- When did it happen? When did the energetic child become the child with
hyperactivity? When did the opinionated child become the oppositional child?
The stubborn child become the defiant child? Daydreamer start having
attention deficits? When did we start pathologizing our kids?
I guess in many ways, it doesn’t entirely matter how we got here, so long as
we acknowledge that we are indeed here...
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 When gifted children are not identified as gifted by
Gail Post in
Gifted Challenges
- What happens when gifted children are not identified as gifted?
What is the impact when they realize how much they differ from peers, but
can't quite
make sense of what it all means?
What transpires when adults witness these children's intellectual and
social/emotional
differences, but refuse to give voice to what they see right in front of
them?...
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How They Missed Me by
Wibbly
Wobbly, Neuro-UNlogical Stuff
- No One Was Looking For It
First of all, it's only in the last decade or so that enough awareness and
knowledge of the spectrum has converged to the point that you're more likely
to be identified than not. And that's still only for boys, not girls. Girls
are still more likely to go unnoticed because they're innately better at
passing, plus the case studies and criteria are heavily weighted towards
boys and virtually ignore girls and the different ways they present. Unless
they also have a undeniable developmental and/or speech delay like Lady Bug,
girls are rarely on the radar. Or if they're causing a problem in school.
But if you're a quiet, rule following bookworm...
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Labels and the Gifted Diagnosis by Alessa Giampaolo
Keener in
Everyday
Learning
- Labels. We crave them because they affirm our identity and help us find
peer groups where we can relate to people like us.
Labels. We value them because they offer an explanation about a situation
and give us a frame of reference to understand what’s going on.
Labels. We need them because they open doors of opportunity and services
that meet our special needs.
Labels. We dislike them because they pigeonhole us into stereotypes and
expectations that outsiders place on us.
Labels. We resent them because they exclude us when we fail to meet an
arbitrary cut-off score....
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 On Rainbows
and Mantis Shrimp: A layperson’s perspective on ADHD and the misdiagnosis of
gifted brains by
Jill Williford Wurman, Director of Research,
The Grayson School
- Is your child "just" gifted, or twice exceptional? Does the diagnosis
he's received make sense with the boy you see every day? Does the lack of a
diagnosis make sense with the girl you love and live with? Gifted kids can
be misdiagnosed. Some are diagnosed as having learning differences such as
ADHD or High Functioning Autism, but are really just gifted, or bored and
gifted kids. Others are not diagnosed, when they struggle with Executive
Functioning (EF), social skills or other learning challenges.
I have a (highly unscientific) theory to share...
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| To read all our past Blog Hops or join our next Blog Hop, visit
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Special thanks to Pamela S. Ryan for our striking Blog Hop graphics!
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Updated
December 01, 2020
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