NAGC Parent TIP Sheet
Students need to know how to speak up for themselves to find the right opportunities to fit their needs.
EdWeb Webinar
Achieving Equity Through Self-Advocacy
(With co-editor, Dr. Joy Lawson Davis) What can you do right now to improve services and empower your students to self-advocate? When we formally identify or informally recognize gifted learners, we also need to help them find their voices and choose their own paths to success. This edWebinar, based on the research and lived experiences of gifted education experts, is designed to help allies better support underrepresented gifted learners as they break through the barriers to self-advocacy and follow their dreams.
The WATG Podcast
In this episode, Cory speaks with former WATG President Deb Douglas about self advocacy and some of the challenges with gifted education.
Neuro-diversity Podcast
Emily Kircher-Morris has a discussion with Joy Lawson Davis and Deb Douglas, authors of a new book called Empowering Underrepresented Gifted Students, about equity challenges in public education. They provide a snapshot of the contributors who helped write the book from their individual perspectives as marginalized, neurodivergent students, and describe why eliminating gifted programs won’t fix equity issues in gifted education. Many more topics as well, on episode 104.
You might say Deb Douglas is an advocate for self-advocacy. Deb has committed her career to helping educators, school administrators, and parents teach their gifted and twice-exceptional kids the importance of self-advocacy. Now she’s sharing her knowledge with Mind Matters.”
TILT Parenting Podcast
Self-Advocacy for Gifted Learners
Deb has a powerful approach to helping kids learn how to advocate for themselves as learners, and she breaks it all down for us in this episode. I hope you enjoy it!
Free Spirit Blog
In short, self-advocacy has imbued Hani with superpowers. She now believes in her own abilities, has discovered her own dreams, finds support in achieving them, and continues to seek the educational path that is right for her. With our help, all special population gifted learners can be superheroes too!