The Texas Association for the Gifted/Talented (TAGT) celebrates Texas GT Awareness Week the first week of April each year – April 1-5, 2024. In honor of this, there are several resources available for parents, teachers, and principals. There are a multitude of ways to celebrate this on the TAGT website.
Activities planned for the week include a free virtual parent webinar on April 2 at 6:30pm.
The Emotional Challenges of Gifted & Twice-Exceptional Children & How to Help Them Rise Above Them
Andrea Brucella Finnegan
APRIL 2, 2024 6:30 PM
Our gifted/2e students often experience more adversity in school due to their complex, cognitive nature. They are often misunderstood or thought to be doing fine, when on the inside, they may not be. Low self-esteem, anxiety, and depression are just some of the emotional issues that this population of wonderfully neurodiverse children and teens are prone to struggling with, and some are silently struggling without parents or teachers even aware. Explore the emotional implications of common scenarios in school that fuel difficult emotional challenges for neurodiverse students. Help to remedy these struggles by learning about what parents and teachers can do to create support and resilience.
Learn More About Andrea (speaker)
Andrea Brucella Finnegan (she/her) is a passionate advocate for neurodiversity and gifted/ twice-exceptional students. She is a SENG community support facilitator and a U.S. national and international speaker of neurodiversity topics among children and professional educators. Andrea has experience advocating for the needs of people of all ranges of abilities. She serves as director for Operation House Call at the Yale School of Nursing, a program that teaches confidence and sensitivity towards individuals with intellectual and/or developmental disabilities. Andrea is currently a doctoral student at Bridges Graduate School, studying cognitive diversity in education. She is a mom to three wonderful children who inspire her field of work each day.
Registration for the free TAGT webinar
