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GETTING REEL


Low Cost Assessment and Support Options
Assessments and services can frequently be cost-prohibitive. At REEL, we are frequently asked about free or low-cost options that don’t...
Sep 21, 2023


What Can You Ask Your School For?
What is reasonable and likely to be accepted and what is not? Our panel of two parents and a neuropsychologist discussed and suggested concrete support and accommodation options as well as answered questions from our parent community.
Sep 18, 2023


REEL Is Hiring! Marketing/ Communications/ Social Media Associate
REEL is a 501c3 non-profit that strives to ensure Silicon Valley twice-exceptional students thrive in school by raising parent and...
Sep 8, 2023


Ask for Strengths to Shine this School Year
As we kick off another school year, I was pondering what most makes my 2e kids look forward to school, especially because their days are...
Jul 27, 2023


REEL announces new Executive Director
It is with great excitement that REEL announces our first ever executive director - Abby Kirigin! Abby has been a key member of our REEL...
Jul 25, 2023


Is it School Refusal or Self Preservation?
"I don’t want to go!” cried my 9 year old, while rolling on the floor refusing to get dressed. He had been complaining about school since October and we asked for support, but now in January after winter break, it had reached a crisis level. A confluence of school events stripped my usually buoyant 2e boy of his school support systems and rendered him both low energy and highly explosive. Every morning he either refused to go to school no matter the carrots or sticks offered,
May 15, 2023


In the Shadow of a Sibling
Parents of twice exceptional kids – the ones that are both gifted and with learning differences – are well aware of how hard it is to...
May 10, 2023


Are you 2e? Take a Hike!
I like hiking because I love nature and exercise. I didn’t always like hiking. Any time my family went on a hike, I would complain. I got...
May 10, 2023
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