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Kade Friedman
Educator
Topic: TBA
What You Will Learn: TBA
About Kade: Children need to feel seen and supported in all of the spaces they inhabit. All students deserve learning environments where their differences are celebrated. Inclusive learning environments are the key to unlocking every child's potential. They work with schools, organizations, and families to ensure every child is included in their community.
Kade Friedman is a non-binary, white, New York City-based educator with 15 years of experience working with neurodiverse kindergarten through college students. Kade's pronouns are they/them/theirs.
Kade's mission is to create cultures of inclusion, one learning environment at a time.
Website: www.kadefriedman.com
Here's an overview of the main 2021 speakers.
Dr. Ann-Louise Lockhart
PsyD, ABPP, Pediatric Psychologist
Click here to learn more about Dr. Ann-Louise.
Topic: How to Help Regulate Emotions When Your Child is Overwhelmed or Anxious
Links: Website, Online Courses, Instagram, Facebook, YouTube
About Dr. Lockhart: She's a pediatric psychologist, parent coach, author, business owner of a thriving practice in San Antonio, TX: A New Day Pediatric Psychology, PLLC. She's board certified in Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology, and a highly sought-after speaker and writer for parenting, childhood diagnoses, executive functioning, and racism.
Anna Vagin
Speech-Language Pathologist, Author
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Topic: Thinking Behind Conversation: Greater Relationships for Your Student with EF Challenges
About Anna: Anna Vagin, PhD, is a licensed speech/language pathologist with over 30 years of experience. In her private practice in Marin County, California, she provides individual sessions and social learning groups to children, young adults, and their families. Her particular interests are using media and gaming.
Colin Seale
Founder and CEO of thinkLaw, Author
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Topic: How to Foster Critical Thinking Along with Executive Function
Links: Website, Book, Twitter, Facebook, Instagram
About Colin: Colin founded thinkLaw, a multi-award-winning organization to help educators leverage inquiry-based instructional strategies to close the critical thinking gap and ensure they teach and REACH all students, regardless of race, zip code or what side of the poverty line they are born into.
Diane Dempster
Co-Founder of ImpactParents.com, Educator, & Parenting Coach
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Topic: What's Yelling Got to Do with EF? Tame the Triggers & Dial the Family Drama Down
Links: Website
About Diane: Diane Dempster is a certified professional coach, speaker, educator, and co-founder of the award-winning resource for parents, ImpactADHD.com. With a Masters from the University of Michigan and coach certification from the Institute for Professional Excellence in Coaching (iPEC), Diane is the co-author of Parenting ADHD Now! Easy Intervention Strategies to Empower Kids with ADHD, and the co-creator of the behavior management program, "The Sanity School Course for Parents."
Elizabeth Sautter
Speech-Language Pathologist
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Topic: 4 Foundational Steps to Help Your Child with Executive Functioning
Links: Free Journal & Webinar
About Elizabeth: Elizabeth is the founder of Make Social Learning Stick where she provides consultation, training and resources. Elizabeth is the co-creator of the Make it Stick Parenting Online Course and Community and author of a Mom’s Choice award-winning book. She's specialized in social and emotional learning since 1996. She is the co-owner of Communication Works which provides speech therapy to schools and individuals in the SF Bay Area.
Emily Kircher-Morris
Neurodiversity Podcast, Author, Counselor
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Topic: It's OK to Stop and Ask for Directions: Teaching Kids Self-Advocacy for EF Recommendations
Links: Neurodiversity Podcast, Website, Gifted and Support Network
About Emily: Emily Kircher-Morris, LPC has dual Masters degrees, the first in Education with certification in Gifted Education and the second in Counseling and Family Therapy. Emily combines her experience and training to support twice-exceptional and neurodivergent kids, teens, and their families. She, with her husband, Dave, created The Neurodiversity Podcast (www.neurodiversitypodcast.com) in 2018. Now in its fourth year, The Neurodiversity Podcast continues to provide interviews with experts and #ownvoices within the neurodiversity movement.
Houston Kraft
Speaker, Author, Kindness Advocate
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Topic: Kindness As a Different Measure of Success
About Houston: Houston is a professional speaker, author, curriculum designer, and kindness advocate who speaks at schools, conferences, and events internationally. He has spoken to over half a million people at 600 engagements and counting. He is the co-founder of CharacterStrong - trainings and curriculums that create more compassionate cultures in schools and communities. They work with 2,500 schools serving over 1 million students with their content. In 2019, he was featured by Lay's on BBQ and Jalapeño chip bags for their "Spreading Smiles" campaign.
IngerShaye Colzie
Your ADHD Resilience Energy Roadmap
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Topic: Understanding the ADHD Energy Roadmap to Make Life Easier for Everyone
About IngerShaye: IngerShaye Colzie is an ADHD Coach and Psychotherapist specializing in making a difference for Black woman executives and entrepreneurs, supporting women through clarity, empowerment and resilience. She has successfully run her practice, Alchemy Coaching & Counseling, as a therapist and Licensed Clinical Social Worker for 15 years in spite of being undiagnosed until in her 50s. She offers the benefits of professional expertise with a lifetime of experience.
Jill Stowell, M.S.
Founder & CEO of Stowell Learning Centers, Bestselling Author
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Topic: Seven Essential Keys to Building Executive Function in Real Time
Links: Website, Facebook, Instagram, SLC Mom Squad, YouTube
About Jill: As the founder and executive director of Stowell Learning Centers, Jill has the privilege of walking alongside families as they move from tears and fights over homework to having children who are comfortable, confident, and independent learners.
Joseph Lee, M.D.
Psychiatrist
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Topic: "Collaborative Executive Functioning" to Support Your Child: How Your Child can have Tools to Grow Independently
About Joseph: Hello. My name is Joseph Lee and I am a Psychiatrist in private practice in Redondo Beach, California. Over the now twenty or so years of my career, my perspective has incrementally expanded its focus, looking beyond merely the improvement of symptoms at the worst times in life, towards a goal that is much more ambitious — achieving optimal mental healthiness. This aim is helpful for the whole range of health, from sickness to no longer sick to healthy to thriving.
Julie Skolnick
2e Expert, Conference Host
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Topic: Why Gifted & 2e Learners Struggle with Executive Function Skills & What to Do About It
Links: Free Consultation, WithUnderstandingComesCalm.com, Let's Talk 2e, 2e Resources
About Julie: Julie Skolnick, M.A., J.D., Founder of With Understanding Comes Calm, LLC, passionately guides parents of gifted and distractible children, mentors 2e adults, trains educators and advises professionals on how to bring out the best and raise self-confidence in their 2e students and clients. Julie serves as Secretary to the Maryland Superintendent’s Gifted and Talented Advisory Council, is an advisor for the Masters of Education Program for the Bridges Graduate School of Cognitive Diversity, is the Maryland liaison for Supporting the Emotional Needs of the Gifted (SENG), is a Committee member for the National Association for Gifted Children (NAGC) and serves as an advisor to “The G Word” feature documentary currently in production. Julie produces Let’s Talk 2e! virtual conferences, hosts the Let’s Talk 2e! Parent Empowerment Series, maintains the free listing service, 2eResources.com, and publishes “Gifted & Distractible,” a free monthly newsletter.
Kade Friedman
Educator
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Topic: When Your Gender Non-Conforming Child also Struggles with EF: Tools for Supporting at Home & School
Links: Website
About Kade: In Kade’s educational consulting practice, they advise teachers to create class communities where differences are celebrated, social and emotional skills are explicitly taught, and the student’s voices matter. The goal is for young children to see that they are essential in creating and upholding their communities.
Maria Davis-Pierre
Founder of Autism in Black
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Topic: Roadmap to Supporting the Black Autistic Child and Their Executive Functioning Needs
About Maria: Maria Davis-Pierre LMHC, is the Founder and CEO of Autism in Black Inc. This organization aims to bring awareness to Autism and reduce the stigma associated with the diagnosis in the Black community. Her unique approach exemplifies her drive and motivation toward greater acceptance and overcoming the barriers and personal struggles associated with raising an Black autistic child. Maria has been featured in Forbes, The New York Times, and has collaborated with Microsoft.
Mona Delahooke
Pediatric Psychologist, Author
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Topic: EF from the Ground Up: Understanding the Role of Physiological State Regulation in Relationships
Links: Website, Beyond Behaviors Course
About Mona: Mona M. Delahooke, Ph.D. is a clinical child psychologist, mother, and grandmother with a passion for supporting families and children. She has worked widely with multi- disciplinary teams in the area of developmental and emotional differences for over 25 years. She is a trainer and consultant to schools, public/private agencies and parents. Her blog and award- winning book, Beyond Behaviors: Using Brain Science and Compassion to Understand and Solve Children’s Behavioral Challenges explains a new body and brain-based approach to behavioral challenges for therapists, parents and teachers.
Dr. Nicole Tetreault
PhD, Neuroscientist, Author, Meditation Teacher
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Topic: Build Positive Mind States for EF Centered on Strengths
Links: Website, BeyondTheCell.org, Book
About Dr. Tetreault: Nicole A. Tetreault, Ph.D., is a compassionate neuroscientist, author, meditation teacher, and international speaker on topics of neurodiversity, neurodevelopment, creativity, mental health, and wellness. Nicole has researched neurodiversity, including autism, giftedness, and 2e for over two decades and is passionate about sharing her knowledge and approach to neurodiversity. Being 2e herself, she understands the experience from the inside out.
Dr. Robyn Silverman
Child Development Specialist
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Topic: How to Talk to Kids about EF Challenges from a Place of Strength
Links: Website, Podcast, Facebook, Instagram, Twitter
About Dr. Silverman: Dr. Robyn Silverman is your go-to expert to access simple scripts for tough topics. Get tongue-tied when your child or teen asks you about sex, porn, death, diversity, mental health and more? Dr. Robyn is your girl. She is a well-known professional speaker, child & teen development specialist, author and podcast host who appears regularly as an expert on many national TV such as The Today Show, Nightline and Good Morning America. Her passion is connecting through conversation (especially the tough ones). She's also a speaker, podcast host, author, and curriculum developer.
Ryan Wexelblatt
The ADHD Dude
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Topic: Understanding ADHD and How to Make Life Easier at Home, from a Dad's Perspective
Links: YouTube, Facebook, Instagram, Website
About Ryan: Ryan Wexelblatt, AKA "The ADHD Dude" is a licensed clinical social worker, school social worker and father to a son with executive function challenges. Ryan's videos for parents and kids can be seen at the ADHD Dude YouTube channel as well as his ADDitude Magazine page, ADHD in Boys. Ryan provides solutions for parents through the ADHD Dude Membership Site and is the Director of Trip Camp, a summer camp for boys with ADHD in Margate, New Jersey. Originally from the Philadelphia area, Ryan is based at the New Jersey shore.
Sarah Kesty
Executive Function and ADHD Coach
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Topic: 2 Powerful Ways Communication Can Create Success at School
Links: Website, Facebook, Executive Function Podcast
About Sarah: Sarah Kesty is an author, educator, and host of the Executive Function Podcast. Sarah is a passionate advocate for people with ADHD and prides herself in translating research into practice in her classroom and her coaching business. She is the 2021 San Diego Classrooms of the Future Innovative Teacher of the Year and the 2021-22 Sweetwater Union High School District Teacher of the Year! She regularly writes for publications such as KQED and the George Lucas Foundation's Edutopia and wrote the children's book, "Everyone Has Something: Together We Can." She is currently co-authoring a book for teens with ADHD! The Santa Maria Times acclaims, "Sarah speaks fluent school kid," and her clients agree! She specializes in teaching parents to coach their children and empowering children with self-acceptance and strategies! If your child is brilliant yet stumped on how to show it; if your son or daughter is frustrated with the invisible expectations of playing the "school game;" or, if you just got the diagnosis and aren't sure where to start with home and school strategies, Sarah is your coach! She creates individualized plans to help children and young adults work with their brains and create plans that work. She can also support students with Learning Disabilities, autism, and social skills development.
Seth Perler
Executive Function, 2e, and ADHD Coach
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Topic: A Roadmap to Change: How to Guide Young People from EF Struggles to Success
Links: Website, YouTube, Facebook, EF Support Group, TEFOS FB Group, Pinterest
About Seth: Seth Perler, M.Ed., was a teacher for 12 years and earned a Masters in Special Education and Gifted & Talented Education. He always preferred working with complicated, neurodiverse, atypical learners and likes the challenge of helping them learn to navigate school and build upon their strengths to create a great future. Now he is an Executive Function and 2e coach in Kauai, HI. You can explore his Executive Function & 2e blog, which is packed with insights for parents and teachers.
Sucheta Kamath
ExQ Founder
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Topic: The Back-to-School Brain: Developing EF Skills to Help Kids Transition Successfully
Links: Website, Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn
About Sucheta: Sucheta Kamath is an award winning speech-language pathologist, TEDx speaker, Leadership Atlanta Alumna, and an ed-tech entrepreneur whose new Executive Function training software ExQ® is innovating the world of learning how to learn.
Sue Simmons
Certified EFT Practitioner, Emotional Success Coach
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Topic: How Your Resilience Either Helps or Hinders Your Child's EF
Links: Website, Instagram, Facebook
About Sue: Sue is a Certified Advanced EFT Practitioner and Emotional Success Coach with a specialty in stress reduction and trauma associated with ASD/ADD. She is also a Certified Professional Coach, and served families as a Certified RDI® Program Consultant for over a decade. Sue is on a mission to change the way we view and address neurodiversity. For decades, frazzled parents of ND children have waited anxiously for therapy, feeling helpless, dependent, and often like they have “failed their child.” Sue proposes a new paradigm: Armed with specialized knowledge and skills, not only are parents able to make dramatic changes in their children’s lives, but they’re ideally suited to do so! Sue is dedicated to putting parents back in the driver’s seat where they belong, with the resilience and skills to enjoy more love and peace at home, and a brighter future. Real change is possible, and parents hold the key. Most importantly, Sue is the proud Mom of two amazing young adults on the spectrum. If anyone gets what’s required to raise our children to become happy, well-adjusted adults, it’s her!
Susan Baum
Director at Bridges Academy, Professor
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Topic: Understanding the Complex Emotional Needs of Underachieving Children
Links: Website
About Susan: Susan Baum, Ph.D. is co-director of the International Center for Talent Development and Director of the National Institute for 2E Research and Development at Bridges Academy. Professor Emeritus from The College of New Rochelle, and an international consultant, Susan is published in a multitude of books, chapters, and articles in the areas of twice-exceptional students, primary-aged gifted students, social and emotional factors affecting gifted students, and multiple intelligences. She served on the Board of Directors of the National Association for Gifted Children and is past president and co-founder of the Association for the Education of Gifted Underachieving Students. She is recipient of the Weinfeld Group’s Lifetime Achievement Award for her work in educating the twice-exceptional child.
Tosha Schore
Parent Educator
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Topic: A Step-by-Step Practice to Stop Your Boy's Aggressive Behaviors
Links: Website, Facebook, Book
About Tosha: Tosha Schore is on a mission to create a more peaceful world, one sweet boy at a time by supporting you to care for yourself, connect with your boy deeply, set limits lovingly, and play wildly! Through her online communities, Tosha helps break the isolation of modern parenting and lifts your confidence so you're better equipped to face the challenges of raising young boys. MOST IMPORTANT... Tosha is results oriented and ready for you to start creating the change you're longing for in your family.
Here's an overview of the 2021 bonus speakers.
Bob Dietrich
BrainWorxInc
Topic: How to Naturally Improve Your Child's Behavior
Links: Website, Facebook, Instagram, YouTube
About Bob: Bob Dietrich is an award-winning speaker, producer, and entrepreneur. For more than 20 years, he has worked in the personal development field, and has built several successful businesses. When Bob met Alma in 2017 he knew he had found something special. As Alma revealed what she had created locally over the past two decades, and expressed her passion to expand to a worldwide platform, Bob was immediately drawn to the opportunity to help millions of people who suffered with neurological conditions that were the root cause of disorganization, anxiety, lack of focus, brain fog, and more. They began by establishing BrainWorx as a nonprofit, and made it their mission to provide solutions to people with neural development challenges. Then they upgraded Alma's transformational program and made it virtual for worldwide access and support. Now Bob and Alma have helped thousands of people develop their brain and create new neural connections to overcome their challenges, and be empowered for life.
Brendan Mahan
Host of ADHD Essentials Podcast
Topic: How to Improve Transitions
Links: Website, Facebook, Twitter: @ADHDessentials
About Brendan: Brendan Mahan, M.Ed., MS., an internationally recognized ADHD/Executive Function expert, a highly engaging, sought-after speaker, and the host of the ADHD Essentials Podcast. A former teacher, mental health counselor, and principal, Brendan helps individuals, families, schools, and businesses manage the challenges of Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder and neurodiversity through an approach that blends education, collaborative problem-solving, and accountability with compassion, humor, a focus on strengths and growth, and his trademark “Wall of Awful™” model. Contact him at brendan@ADHDessentials.com.
Dayna Abraham
Founder of Calm the Chaos® Framework
Topic: One Counterintuitive Tip Your Child Needs Before ANY Strategy Will Work
Links: Website, Facebook, Instagram
About Dayna: Dayna Abraham, founder of the Calm the Chaos® Framework, best-selling author of The Superkids Activity Guide to Conquering Every Day and founder of the popular blog, Lemon Lime Adventures, helps parents and education professionals unlock the unique super powers in children so they can live a more peaceful life filled with clarity, connection and empowerment by providing them with a proven plan designed to Calm the Chaos® of everyday life. When she’s not writing, you can find her drinking lots of coffee and being the best sidekick possible for her own three Superkids. In our Calm The Chaos: The Huddle Membership we help parents of challenging kids create families that work together, advocate and empower each other, and enjoy spending time together; even if they feel they’ve tried absolutely everything.
Debbie Reber, MA
Founder of TiLT Parenting
Topic: How to Flip the Script and Get Unstuck from a Not-So-Great Parent / Child Dynamic
Links: Website, Facebook, Instagram, Twitter
About Debbie: Debbie Reber a parenting activist, New York Times bestselling author, podcast host, and the founder of TiLT Parenting (https://tiltparenting.com), a top resource for parents raising neurodivergent or "differently wired" children. With more than 250 episodes and over 3 million downloads, the TiLT Parenting Podcast has grown to be a top podcast in the Kids & Family / Parenting space. A certified Positive Discipline trainer and a regular contributor to Psychology Today and ADDitude Magazine, Debbie’s newest book is "Differently Wired: Raising an Exceptional Child in a Conventional World". To learn more about Debbie's work, her speaking, and her unique high-touch Differently Wired Club membership community for parents, visit tiltparenting.com.
Debbie Steinberg-Kuntz
Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist, Founder of Bright & Quirky
Topic: Give Your Child's Teacher a Headstart on How to Help
Links: Website
About Debbie: Hi, I’m Debbie Steinberg Kuntz, licensed marriage and family therapist and founder of Bright & Quirky. I’m really glad you’ve found us! When I started my family counseling practice a decade ago, I had no idea this would be my specialty. But my sons, now teenagers, had some unique strengths and challenges that I dove deeply into understanding. I learned that they were ‘2e’ or ‘twice exceptional,’ meaning they are smart and also have unique brain wiring that makes accessing those smarts at times challenging. As I researched and found solutions for them, I started to share the learning with families in my private practice near Seattle. You may know that in the Seattle area, we have many highly skilled, uniquely wired people working for nearby high tech companies (i.e. Amazon, Microsoft). My practice includes many such families, eager for information on raising 2e kids. To meet the need, I created in-person support groups for parents raising 2e kids. Their kids are very bright and struggle with learning, executive function, social, emotional and/or behavioral challenges. Some have diagnoses such as ADHD, autism/Aspergers, anxiety, depression and learning disabilities like dyslexia.
Elaine Taylor-Klaus, CPCC, PCC
CEO of ImpactADHD.com
Topic: How "Buy-In" Improves Relationships AND Independence
Links: Website, Podcast, Social: @impactparents
About Elaine: Susan Baum, Ph.D. is co-director of the International Center for Talent Development and Director of the National Institute for 2E Research and Development at Bridges Academy. Professor Emeritus from The College of New Rochelle, and an international consultant, Susan is published in a multitude of books, chapters, and articles in the areas of twice-exceptional students, primary-aged gifted students, social and emotional factors affecting gifted students, and multiple intelligences. She served on the Board of Directors of the National Association for Gifted Children and is past president and co-founder of the Association for the Education of Gifted Underachieving Students. She is recipient of the Weinfeld Group’s Lifetime Achievement Award for her work in educating the twice-exceptional child.
Gretchen Wegner, M.Ed.
Academic Life Coach
Topic: How to Give Advice in a Way Teens Might Actually Listen!
Links: Website
About Gretchen: Gretchen Wegner is a leader in helping students, parents and educators de-stressify school and studying the anti-boring way. A master teacher and an experienced academic life coach, she specializes in consolidating the science of learning into fun, digestible, actionable nuggets for both students and educators. Gretchen is also a tireless learner, consistently and transparently modeling the tools she teaches in her coaching, courses and community. Find out more at gretchenwegner.com, and download her free communication tool at www.gretchenwegner.com/consent.
Jennifer Delaney, MA, LPC
Licensed Professional Counselor
Topic: How Reframing the Language of Diagnosis can Boost Self-Esteem
About Jennifer: Promoting the benefits of mindfulness and Brainspotting, Jennifer Delaney, MA, LPC speaks regularly to local and international organizations. In her teletherapy private practice, she treats professionals who struggle in relationships because of childhood trauma. She uses the highly effective modality, Brainspotting, to overcome the shame voice and build esteem. A dancer and writer, Jennifer maintains an engaging and informative blog at jenniferdelaney.com.
Kai Hazelwood & Sarah Ashkin
Practice Progress
Topic: How to Embody Anti-Racism
Links: Website, Mailing List, Social: @wepracticeprogress, Email: info@practiceprogress.com
About Kai & Sarah: Kai Hazelwood (she/her) is a transdisciplinary artist, educator, and co-founder of Practice Progress, a consultancy addressing structural, professional, and interpersonal white supremacy through body based learning that serves non and for profit businesses, educational institutions, and individuals. She is currently an adjunct professor at Chapman University teaching dance technique through an anti-racist framework. Kai is also the founder and artistic director of Good Trouble Makers, a practice driven arts collaborative celebrating plural-sexual/bi+ identities and centering BIPOC. Good Trouble Makers are dedicated to making.
Sarah Ashkin's (she/her) is a arts and justice educator, anti-racist facilator, and choreographer working at the intersection of critical race studies, healing and education. Sarah has been teaching for over a decade, from toddlers to adults, supporting students in honing the tools they need to dismantle and rebuild our world for the better. Sarah’s work responds to her BIPOC teachers, students, and collaborators call to organize white people for racial justice through body-based learning. Sarah holds a Masters in Dance, Politics and Sociology from the University of Roehampton, London and is a current doctoral student in Performance Studies at University of California, Davis.
Karen Tui Boyes
Licensed Professional Counselor
Topic: How to Limit Your Time Studying & Making it Effective Using the 20:5 Strategy
Free download: 27 Study Smart Tips poster. Click here.
Links: Website
About Karen: Affectionately known as the 'Study Queen', Karen Tui Boyes is passionate about providing students practical, simple to use strategies to study. "Passing exams is supposed to get you ahead in life - not make you a nervous wreck" says Karen. She is the author of Study Smart, 27 Study Tips for Success and designer of the Study Smart Board Game and the iStudyAlarm.Karen has presented her Study Smart Tips to over 100 000 students in 21 countries. Her workshops are fun and engaging and the tips will last you a lifetime.
Dr. Marlo Payne Thurman
2e Consulting
Topic: Make it a Priority to Understand Your Child's Learning Style
Links: Website
About Dr. Thurman: Dr. Marlo Payne Thurman specializes in assessment, advocacy, cognitive training, sensory and behavior support, and socio-emotional coaching. Holding doctoral level degrees in both School Psychology and Special Education, Marlo continues to see clients in her private practice, while also serving as President and Chairwoman for the US Autism Association. Marlo regularly speaks and trains teachers and mental health practitioners, and is an adjunct faculty member at the University of Northern Colorado, where she teaches pre-service and continuing educators in gifted and special education. Marlo has been recognized for her work by People Magazine, the Special Educator, ADDitude Magazine, the New York Times, and National Public Radio. She writes regularly for Psychology Today and most recently completed a landmark study proposing an alternative Sensory-Cognitive Difference Theory in the field of high functioning autism, based on her extensive discussions and interactions with gifted, diagnosed adults. This research is the foundation for her newest book, Autism is the Future.
Michael Postma
President of Gifted & Thriving
Topic: Processing Speed, Neurodiversity, & Executive Functioning
Links: Website
About Mike: Dr. Michael Postma is a teacher, administrator, consultant, speaker, and author dedicated to the holistic development of both gifted and twice-exceptional children through his new company Gifted & Thriving, LLC. During the last two decades, Dr. Postma has worked in the field of gifted/talented education as both a teacher and administrator in the public and charter school system in Minnesota and North Carolina, and, was the architect of the Minnetonka Navigator Program, a magnet school specifically designed for highly gifted and twice-exceptional students.
Molly A. Isaacs-McLeod, J.D. LL.M
Gifted Unlimited, LLC
Topic: Advocating for Challenging Placement and Nurturing Accommodation in a post-COVID World
Links: Links: Website, Instagram: @giftedunlimited, Twitter @GiftedUnltdLLC, Facebook: GiftedUnltd
About Molly: Molly A. Isaacs-McLeod, JD, LL.M. is an attorney mediator, educator, and president of Gifted Unlimited, LLC. She provides advocacy and planning services to families seeking appropriate academic placement for their gifted and twice-exceptional children. She presents nationally on the social emotional needs of the gifted and educational policy issues addressing gifted students. Gifted Unlimited, LLC is a publisher of quality, research-based information pertinent to the gifted population and to those who support them. Its mission is to inform and inspire the gifted experience throughout the lifespan via publications and regional gatherings. Molly has served on the Governor’s Task Force on Gifted Education, the Council on Gifted and Talented Education for Kentucky, the Board of Directors for SENG, and has taught numerous online classes through Athena’s Advanced Academy for gifted students. Molly is a seasoned homeschooler.
Sarah Cheyette, M.D.
Neurologist
Topic: Moving from Unfocused to Focused Thinking
Free download: Non-Medication Strategies to Manage
Links: Website, Purchase Books, Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn
About Sarah: Sarah Cheyette, M.D., is a pediatric neurologist who specializes in the diagnosis and treatment of ADHD and Autism. She is a graduate of Princeton University and UCLA Medical School and has a thriving private practice in Palo Alto, CA. where she counsels and treats kids, teens, young adults and adults. She brings a powerful professional perspective on the benefits and limitations of ADHD medication, and the many behavioral adaptations people with ADHD must embrace to thrive with their condition. She is the author of four books - three on ADHD: Winning with ADHD , ADHD & The Focused Mind and most recently ADHD & Me. She is a regular contributor for Psychology Today and is a popular speaker on many topics including ADHD, Autism, the brain, teens, adults with ADHD and Autism, physician updates, neurology, focus issues and recommendations.
Dr. Sharon Saline
Clinical Psychologist, Author, Consultantv
Topic: Kids with EF Challenges Want to Feel Heard
Links: Website
About Sharon: Sharon Saline, Psy.D. specializes in an integrative approach to managing ADHD, anxiety, executive functioning skills, learning differences & mental health in neurodiverse children, teens, young adults & families. With over 25 years of clinical experience, she brings a positive, strength-based approach to improving the challenges related to attention, learning and behavior.
Shelley Kenow
Special Education Consultant and Master IEP Coach®
Topic: How to Build a Relationship with Your Child that Will Last a Lifetime
Links: Website, Instagram, Facebook, LinkedIn, YouTube
About Shelley: Shelley Kenow has a passion for changing the world's perspective of special needs through IEPs. Shelley is a veteran special educator with over 25 years experience, has completed the Master IEP Coach® Mentorship, is part of the Master IEP Coach® network, works with families and school districts in order to prepare each child with an IEP for further education, employment, and independent living and provides professional development for school districts and small groups. Shelley also hosts two shows on Facebook and Youtube called #nolimits and Friday with Fran. She believes that if families and educators can understand the other's perspective, then better IEPs will be written, better communication will happen, and more collaboration will occur which will all benefit the child for whom the IEP is being written.
Dr. Stuart Shanker
Founder of The MEHRIT Centre
Topic: How to Help Your Child Restore: What is Restoration, and Why is it so Important?
About Stuart: Dr. Stuart Shanker (D.Phil) is a Distinguished Research Professor Emeritus of Philosophy and Psychology, the Founder & Visionary of The MEHRIT Centre, Ltd., and Self-Reg Global Inc. One of his many books, “Calm, Alert and Learning: Classroom Strategies for Self-Regulation (2012)”, is a top-selling educational publication in Canada., Self-Reg: How to Help Your Child (and You) Break the Stress Cycle and Successfully Engage With Life (2016), has garnered enthusiastic reviews and media attention throughout North America and has also been published in the United Kingdom, the United States, Poland, Germany, China, South Korea, Japan, the Netherlands, Georgia and the Czech Republic. His latest books are Self-Reg Schools: A Handbook for Educators (2019) and Reframed: Self-Reg for a Just Society (2020).
Yulia Rafailova
Executive Function Coach for Families
Topic: How to Have Certainty in Uncertain Times: Navigating the Six Stages of Change
Links: Website, Parent & Student Self-Assessment, The Alpha Parent Podcast
About Yulia: Hi, I’m Yulia, an Executive Functioning Coach for families. After a decade of coaching typical and outside-the-box students, I realized how fundamental a role parents play in their child’s development of crucial Executive Function Skills. I founded MindFull Education to teach families about Executive Functioning and how to design better systems for getting along and getting stuff done. My approach to coaching is founded on collaborative-problem-solving as well as mindfulness, guided meditation, journaling, and drawing. Having grown up with undiagnosed ADHD and an anxiety disorder, I can relate deeply to the children and families that I serve. Learn more about coaching at www.mindfulleducation.com/about.
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