I've been asked to submit an application to speak at a local TEDx Education event (due in a week & likely won't get selected but applying anyway). The topic would be how we are losing some of our most unconventional, brightest innovators of tomorrow by not recognizing their needs today - focusing broadly on gifted but mostly on twice exceptional.
I would love for my talk to encompass what all of us talk about here, how we think the screening processes and therapies and training of regular and special ed teachers and psychologists and ... and ... and ... - how all of these factors often fail twice exceptional kids.
Now I likely won't get selected, so this may be an exercise in just pure venting and wishful thinking, but on the off chance I am selected, what do you think should be included in the list of things that hinder growth and excellence for our kids with the way our education system works now?
