A Parent’s Journey: A Child Who is Twice-Exceptional – Voices of Compassion Podcast
Parenting is never easy, but raising a child with exceptional talents who also struggles with learning differences (such as autism, ADHD or dyslexia) is even more complex. This combination of giftedness and challenges — known as twice exceptional (2e) — Read more >>
I Just Learned My Child Has Dyslexia…Now What? – Voices of Compassion Podcast
A dyslexia diagnosis can be bittersweet: in some ways, it might help explain your child’s struggles in school and their anxieties about falling behind. But finding the right supports for your child is daunting, and you can’t help but worry Read more >>
Anxiety and the Twice-Exceptional (2e) Child [downloadable]
Students who are twice-exceptional (2e) have tremendous intellectual gifts alongside a wide range of possible learning challenges — attention differences, slow processing speed, social immaturity, and/or weak executive function skills, just to name a few of the possibilities. Read more >>
EdRev Expo 2019 Workshop: Anxiety and the Twice-Exceptional Child [presentation]
What does it mean when your child has been identified as twice-exceptional? Students who are twice-exceptional have unique challenges. They often experience anxiety as a result of some of those challenges. CHC’s Vivien Keil, PhD, talks about the makeup of Read more >>
Four Key Executive Functioning Strategies for Your Child
Written by Vivien Keil, PhD, Neuropsychologist and Clinical Director at CHC March Madness is around the corner: a time of anticipation and excitement for college basketball fans around the globe. Many students, however, especially those with learning and attention differences, Read more >>
Twice-Exceptionality (2e): What Does It Mean and Why Does It Matter? [presentation]
CHC’s Vivien Keil, Ph.D., and Ann Smith, Executive Director of Gifted Support Center, define what it means to be twice exceptional — that is, both gifted and challenged by a learning difference. The presenters also discuss the mental health needs of Read more >>
Anxiety and the Twice-Exceptional Child [presentation]
Students who are twice-exceptional have unique challenges. They often experience anxiety as a result of some of those challenges. Read more >>
ADHD: Strains, Strengths and Strategies [presentation]
Do you have questions about ADHD? Learn about ADHD and the strategies that help promote attention and support executive functioning in Dr. Vivien Keil’s presentation in partnership with San Francisco Public Library’s The Bridge at Main program. Read more >>
Executive Functions: What They Are and How to Support Them [presentation]
Studies show that Social Emotional Learning (SEL) is a critical factor to success, even more so than academics. SEL and Executive Functioning go hand in hand. Together they represent the missing puzzle piece for education. Learn more from Vivien Keil, PhD Read more >>
Signs of ADHD & Tips for Coping [presentation]
In this community education presentation, Dr. Glen Elliott and Dr. Vivien Keil provide a brief historical perspective of Attention-Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD), discuss current methods for diagnosis and some general strategies for coping with a child with ADHD. Read more >>
