ACADEMIC COACHING

What to Expect

We understand that when you provide academic or executive function to a gifted student, we must consider the developmental, social/emotional, neurobiological, and psychological aspects of an individual. If you ask a gifted student to work on specific behavioral academic/EF change, without thoroughly understanding these factors, you will fail in the process.

Gifted kids tend to not respond to behavioral intervention if they are being treated in a normative way that doesn't consider their complexity. When we provide support, our staff, knows the interplay that's going on under the hood.

What Makes Us Different

Let's face it, we know that if you tried to intervene with most gifted children like they're a laboratory rat and employ a behavioral techinque, nothing progresses. We never lose sight of the fact that this individual is complex, dynamic in their nature, and the child will figure out real quick if you're trying to fix them with a behavioral technique simply so they can perform better.

What is Gifted?

Limitations

For the gifted child, academic/executive fucntion coaching requires a foundational level of awareness that "I am actually struggling with a learning related concern/problem." In most cases, gifted kids who are struggling with their learning have developed a defense posture to protect their vulnerability in that area. If you address that issue directly without considering the magnitude of that defense, you will be doing nothing other than recapitualing the problem that brought you into our office in the first place.

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