Diagnosing 2e, Cheating, School Psychs, More

DEVON MACEACHRON has posted a checklist she uses with parents to help determine whether a child might be twice-exceptional. She writes, “I find that parents usually have quite accurate insights to their children, and encourage you to trust your instincts…” Her practice focuses on 2e kiddos. Find the checklist.

COLLEGE ADMISSIONS SCANDAL. Last week’s revelations about parental “cheating” to get kids onto elite schools have several facets. Psychologist Gail Post writes about two of of them in regard to gifted students — that such cheating might deny a deserved spot to an “ordinary,” gifted, non-cheating student, and how gifted students might be very morally offended by such cheating. Find Post’s opinions. Another facet is how one form of the cheating specifically hurts students with LDs, including twice-exceptional students — that’s when some cheating parents obtained fraudulent documentation to allow their neurotypical offspring extra time on standardized tests. Find out more about this facet at NPR, at Inside Higher Ed, or at the site of the LDA.