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PAST EVENTS

2023-2024 REEL Signature Speaker Series

  • Reduce Power Struggles with Your 2e Kid with Dr. Danika Maddocks
    Reduce Power Struggles with Your 2e Kid with Dr. Danika Maddocks
    Danika shares three powerful, practical strategies to prevent and defuse power struggles - plus real-life examples to help you apply these strategies to your particular family situation.
  • 2e Sensory Challenges and Masking with Dr. Matt Zakreski
    2e Sensory Challenges and Masking with Dr. Matt Zakreski
    Many 2e learners have unique and challenging sensory needs - what can we do?
  • Neurodivergent Strengths at School
    Neurodivergent Strengths at School
    Learn how to work with your child's school to encourage strength-based approaches, whether that be in a teacher conference, the IEP process, or other conversations.
  • 2e Emotional Regulation with Emily Kircher-Morris
    2e Emotional Regulation with Emily Kircher-Morris
    Emily breaks down the process of emotional regulation so we can help our kids find healthy ways to manage their emotions.
  • The Power of Mentorship for 2e Learners
    The Power of Mentorship for 2e Learners
    Learn how mentorship helps students discover their full potential and explore their passions through interest-based learning.
  • 2e & Executive Functioning
    2e & Executive Functioning
    Hear strategies for tackling tasks such as homework, note taking, project planning, task management, and goal setting.
  • 2e Math Solutions
    2e Math Solutions
    Math Challenges and Solutions for 2e students
  • 2e Private School Panel 2023
    2e Private School Panel 2023
    Learn about critical elements of a school environment for 2e learners. Then hear from parents whose 2e children have attended both private and public schools.
  • What Can You Ask Your School For?
    What Can You Ask Your School For?
    Our panel of parents and neuropsychologist share creative accommodations they have requested and what has worked and not worked.

2022-2023 REEL Signature Speaker Series

  • Walking the 2e Parent Path
    Walking the 2e Parent Path
    Learn to frame your child’s behaviors in a new light of self protection. Explore ways to minimize your own inner critic, the importance of caring for yourself, and the need to celebrate all that you do.
  • Being Mindful: Tools To Understand & Manage Anxiety
    Being Mindful: Tools To Understand & Manage Anxiety
    Learn clear and useful strategies for addressing anxiety. Get advice to address high anxiety situations with your children. Hear strategies for self-regulation and co-regulation, which are so important in the parenting journey.
  • Autism Level Up: How Adults Can Best Support Neurodivergent Children
    Autism Level Up: How Adults Can Best Support Neurodivergent Children
    Learn how to reset your approach with the neurodivergent children in your lives - including understanding energy regulation, supporting children’s goals, and understanding your role as a trusted adult steering a neurodivergent child through a neurotypical world.
  • Living & Loving 2e: Managing Relationships in a Neurodivergent Family
    Living & Loving 2e: Managing Relationships in a Neurodivergent Family
    Explore how neurodivergence impacts our family relationships as well as tips for navigating the complicated emotions and needs that come along the journey.
  • Dyslexic Design Thinking: When Neurodivergence and Creativity Meet
    Dyslexic Design Thinking: When Neurodivergence and Creativity Meet
    Learn how parents and educators can find the hyper-ability in their child’s differences and foster these unique strengths to boost self-esteem.
  • Video Game Design: The Where, What, and How of College Programs
    Video Game Design: The Where, What, and How of College Programs
    Is there a way kids can leverage their interest in video games into a college degree and career?
  • Working Memory and the 2e Learner
    Working Memory and the 2e Learner
    Learn where working memory is used in daily life and how it affects routines, academics, socializing, and emotions for 2e learners.
  • 2e Private School Panel 2022
    2e Private School Panel 2022
    Learn about the five non-negotiable elements of a school environment for 2e learners. Then hear from parents whose 2e children have attend both private and public schools.
  • Social Skills and the 2e Child
    Social Skills and the 2e Child
    Social skills and social anxiety rank as a top concern for parents of 2e learners. Three experts discuss these complex challenges across the K-12 age range.

2021-2022 REEL Signature Speaker Series

  • Slow Processing Speed and the 2e Child
    Slow Processing Speed and the 2e Child
    Slow processing speed affects every part of a child's life - come away with ideas on how to support your child by making supportive changes to their home and school environments
  • Working the System: Tap Into Public Schools for Assessment & Support for 2e Learners
    Working the System: Tap Into Public Schools for Assessment & Support for 2e Learners
    Learn how to work with school districts to make assessment and accommodations requests, what that process looks like, and potential strength-based goals to advocate for as you move into the 504/IEP process.
  • Neurodiversity Celebration Week March 21-27, 2022
    Neurodiversity Celebration Week March 21-27, 2022
    Meet Siena Castellon, founder of Neurodiversity Celebration Week, and Stanford student. Learn about her experiences at school and why she founded this special week.
  • Ad Astra: Parenting your Neurodiverse Child - Strength-Based Strategies at Home & in the Classroom
    Ad Astra: Parenting your Neurodiverse Child - Strength-Based Strategies at Home & in the Classroom
    Do you have a twice exceptional student or child who is underperforming in school? Let’s help them get their light back!
  • Educator Webinar: Supporting Your Bright But Struggling Students
    Educator Webinar: Supporting Your Bright But Struggling Students
    Do you have students with learning differences who struggle to show what you know to be immense strengths, leading to high anxiety?
  • Strategies to Ignite the Reluctant Writer
    Strategies to Ignite the Reluctant Writer
    Writing almost always tops the list of challenges for all types of 2e learners
  • Private School Panel 2021
    Private School Panel 2021
    Are you considering a private school for your 2e child?
  • Anxiety Strategies for the Twice-Exceptional Child
    Anxiety Strategies for the Twice-Exceptional Child
    Neuropsychologist Dr. Vivien Keil joins us to talk about why 2e kids experience anxiety as well as strategies and solutions to help both at home and in school.
  • Back to School: Creating Your Student Intro One-Sheet
    Back to School: Creating Your Student Intro One-Sheet
    A Student Intro One Sheet is a concise, easy to read, and useful “cheat sheet” distributed at the start of the school year that supports teacher understanding of the student and their unique needs before challenges arise in the classroom.

2020-2021 REEL Signature Speaker Series

  • Now What? Road to Resources for your Twice Exceptional Child
    Now What? Road to Resources for your Twice Exceptional Child
    Get the information you need to start to get resources in place this summer, and prep for the next school year!
  • Strength-based Learning Discussion with Dr. Melanie Hayes
    Strength-based Learning Discussion with Dr. Melanie Hayes
    Melanie will share the strength-based methods of Big Minds Unschool, as well as how strength-based learning can be incorporated into any learning environment.
  • 2e Self Advocacy Panel—Help Your Student Understand Their Brain, and Their Teachers, Too!
    2e Self Advocacy Panel—Help Your Student Understand Their Brain, and Their Teachers, Too!
    Knowing how your brain learns—and talking with your teachers about how they can modify assignments to fit your learning needs—is touted as one of the most important skills 2e students should develop.
  • From Homeschool to Unschool: Personalized Educational Paths for 2e Students
    From Homeschool to Unschool: Personalized Educational Paths for 2e Students
    Have you wondered if a different approach to schooling might be a better fit to support your child’s strengths and needs?
  • REEL 2e Private School Parent Panel 2020
    REEL 2e Private School Parent Panel 2020
    Are you considering a private school for your 2e child?
  • An Evening with Marci Schwartz
    An Evening with Marci Schwartz
    Will your 2e kids be ready for college?

PAST PARTNER EVENTS

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