
Gifted and Distractible
Understanding, Supporting, and Advocating for Your Twice Exceptional Child
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A practical, research-based guide that demystifies giftedness and learning differences in order to help “twice exceptional” children thrive.
Does your child exhibit giftedness and behavioral issues like meltdowns, power struggles, and difficulty relating to their peers? Are they out-of-the-box thinkers requiring different teaching and learning methods? It’s a widely held misconception that intellectual ability and social and emotional success go hand in hand. In fact, “twice exceptional” kids—those who are gifted and have simultaneous learning differences like ADHD, Autism, or dyslexia—are often misunderstood by parents, teachers, and themselves.
This much-needed and empowering guide reveals the unique challenges these remarkable kids face, and offers strength-based, hands-on strategies for understanding, supporting, and advocating for twice exceptional kids. In a world that labels them lazy, scattered, attention-seeking, and a problem that can’t be solved, these tools will help you reimagine the world through your child’s unique perspective—so you can help them thrive.
* This audiobook edition includes a downloadable PDF of charts and worksheets from the book.
PLEASE NOTE: When you purchase this title, the accompanying PDF will be available in your Audible Library along with the audio.
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Critic reviews
“Julie Skolnick’s compassionate and practical guide demystifies the complexities of both giftedness and learning differences, and shows both parents and professionals how to support twice exceptional kids to help them self-actualize.”—Scott Barry Kaufman, PhD, host of The Psychology Podcast and author of Transcend
"What a gift this book is to the family with a curious, clever, creative, and oh, so challenging 2e child! Julie Skolnick brilliantly guides parents (and anyone else listening) to understand 2e kids deeply, to employ hundreds of calming and compassionate strategies, and to advocate for gifted and distractible individuals, at home, at school, and out in the world.”—Carol Stock Kranowitz, author of The Out-of-Sync Child
“A wonderful guide to twice exceptional/2e children and adults. Bright and disabled children are often misunderstood. Their intellectual gifts often mask their weaknesses. Their disabilities can present obstacles to their cognitive promise. Such uneven developmental profiles often lead to undernourishment of strengths and underestimation of impairment. In this comprehensive review, Skolnick shines a light on this complexity. This gem of a book will go a long way toward helping parents and children achieve, as Skolnick suggests, both understanding and calm. As a developmental pediatrician I give this book my strongest recommendation.”—Dan Shapiro, MD, Developmental-Behavioral Pediatrician and creator of ParentChildJourney.com
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We all have the capacity to raise children who are highly resilient and emotionally connected. However, many of us are unable to because we are blinded by modern misconceptions of parenting and our own inner limitations. In The Awakened Family, I show you how you can cultivate a relationship with your children so they can thrive; moreover, you can be transformed to a state of greater calm, compassion and wisdom as well.
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Fluffy and screams "new age".
- By Amazon Customer on 05-27-17
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The Unspeakable Mind
- Stories of Trauma and Healing from the Frontlines of PTSD Science
- By: Shaili Jain MD
- Narrated by: Carol Jacobanis
- Length: 10 hrs and 53 mins
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The Unspeakable Mind is the definitive guide for a trauma-burdened age. With profound empathy and meticulous research, Shaili Jain, MD - a practicing psychiatrist and PTSD specialist at one of America’s top VA hospitals, trauma scientist at the National Center for PTSD, and a Stanford professor - shines a long-overdue light on the PTSD epidemic affecting today’s fractured world.
By: Shaili Jain MD
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A Place to Belong
- Celebrating Diversity and Kinship in the Home and Beyond
- By: Amber O'Neal Johnston, Julie Bogart - foreword
- Narrated by: Amber O'Neal Johnston
- Length: 10 hrs and 9 mins
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Gone are the days when socially conscious parents felt comfortable teaching their children to merely tolerate others. Instead, they are looking for a way to authentically embrace the fullness of their diverse communities. A Place to Belong offers a path forward for families to honor their cultural heritage and champion diversity in the context of daily family life.
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amazing book for homeschool fams
- By Brooke C. on 03-17-25
By: Amber O'Neal Johnston, and others
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The Orchid and the Dandelion
- Why Some Children Struggle and How All Can Thrive
- By: W. Thomas Boyce MD
- Narrated by: Fred Sanders
- Length: 10 hrs and 23 mins
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From one of the world's foremost researchers and pioneers of pediatric health - an audiobook that offers hope and a pathway to success for parents, teachers, psychologists, psychiatrists, and child development experts coping with "difficult" children, fully exploring the author's revolutionary discovery about childhood development, parenting, and the key to helping all children find happiness and success.
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Needed an Editor
- By Daniel S Miller on 03-19-19
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Messy
- The Power of Disorder to Transform Our Lives
- By: Tim Harford
- Narrated by: Nicholas Guy Smith
- Length: 9 hrs and 44 mins
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Messy: The Power of Disorder to Transform Our Lives celebrates the benefits that messiness has in our lives: why it’s important, why we resist it, and why we should embrace it instead. Using research from neuroscience, psychology, social science, as well as captivating examples of real people doing extraordinary things, Tim Harford explains that the human qualities we value – creativity, responsiveness, resilience – are integral to the disorder, confusion, and disarray that produce them.
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I'm a neat freak with three kids...
- By Amazon Customer on 12-13-16
By: Tim Harford
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The Angel and the Assassin
- The Tiny Brain Cell That Changed the Course of Medicine
- By: Donna Jackson Nakazawa
- Narrated by: Melinda Wade
- Length: 10 hrs and 8 mins
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Until recently, microglia were thought to be merely the brain’s housekeepers, helpfully removing damaged cells. But a recent groundbreaking discovery revealed them to be capable of terrifying Jekyll and Hyde behavior. When triggered - and anything that stirs up the immune system in the body can activate microglia - they can morph into destroyers, impacting a wide range of issues from memory problems and anxiety to depression and Alzheimer’s. Under the right circumstances, however, microglia can be coaxed back into being angelic healers.
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A Magnus Opus for Microglia
- By Dominic Acri on 01-23-20
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The Unwinding of the Miracle
- A Memoir of Life, Death, and Everything That Comes After
- By: Julie Yip-Williams
- Narrated by: Emily Woo Zeller, Joshua Williams
- Length: 11 hrs and 14 mins
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That Julie Yip-Williams survived infancy was a miracle. Then, at age 37, with two little girls at home, Julie was diagnosed with terminal metastatic colon cancer, and a different journey began. The Unwinding of the Miracle is the story of a vigorous life refracted through the prism of imminent death. When she was first diagnosed, Julie Yip-Williams sought clarity and guidance through the experience and, finding none, began to write her way through it - a chronicle that grew beyond her imagining.
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Heartbreaking and uplifting at the same time
- By Cristina on 02-18-19
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Journey Through Trauma
- A Trail Guide to the 5-Phase Cycle of Healing Repeated Trauma
- By: Gretchen L. Schmelzer PhD
- Narrated by: Adenrele Ojo
- Length: 10 hrs and 21 mins
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Gretchen Schmelzer watched too many people quit during treatment for trauma recovery. They found it too difficult or too frightening or just decided that for them it was too late. But as a therapist and trauma survivor herself, Dr. Schmelzer wants us to know that it is never too late to heal from trauma, whether it is the suffering caused within an abusive relationship or PTSD resulting from combat.
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Stunningly accurate portrayal of the journey
- By Daniel on 12-11-19
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The Trying Game
- Get Through Fertility Treatment and Get Pregnant Without Losing Your Mind
- By: Amy Klein
- Narrated by: Amy Klein
- Length: 11 hrs and 41 mins
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There are so many ways to be Not Pregnant: You can be young, old, partnered, or unpartnered. Maybe you have endometriosis. Maybe you don’t have enough eggs or your partner doesn’t have enough sperm. Or maybe there’s nothing wrong except you’re Just. Not. Pregnant. Amy Klein has been there. Faced with fertility obstacles, she quickly became an expert. And she wrote about it all for the New York Times Motherlode blog in her Fertility Diary column. Now, Amy has written the book she wishes she’d had when she was trying to get pregnant.
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Very informative
- By Tracie on 07-09-23
By: Amy Klein
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Positive Discipline Parenting Tools
- The 49 Most Effective Methods to Stop Power Struggles, Build Communication, and Raise Empowered, Capable Kids
- By: Jane Nelsen Ed.D., Mary Nelsen Tamborski, Brad Ainge
- Narrated by: Kimberly Farr, Kathleen McInerney, Fred Sanders
- Length: 11 hrs and 28 mins
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Do you wish there was a way to raise well-behaved children without punishment? Are you afraid the only alternative is being overly indulgent? With Positive Discipline, an encouragement model based on both kindness and firmness, you don't have to choose between these two extremes. Using these 49 Positive Discipline tools honed and perfected after years of real-world research and feedback, you'll be able to work with your children instead of against them.
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Ok info - bad layout for audio book
- By Mommy on 06-19-18
By: Jane Nelsen Ed.D., and others
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Burning Bright
- Rituals, Reiki, and Self-Care to Heal Burnout, Anxiety, and Stress
- By: Kelsey J. Patel
- Narrated by: Kelsey J. Patel
- Length: 12 hrs and 41 mins
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When Kelsey Patel was struck by searing back pain in her 20s, she had no idea that repressed emotions could manifest as intense anxiety and physical pain. Her healing came from acknowledging the disharmony in her life, which led Patel to seek out the self-care techniques and practices that helped get her body, health, and emotions back into alignment: Reiki, Emotional Freedom Technique, yoga, and other practices.
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READ THIS
- By Julietta Amazon Customer on 05-24-20
By: Kelsey J. Patel
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Exponential Living
- Stop Spending 100% of Your Time on 10% of Who You Are
- By: Sheri Riley, Usher - foreword
- Narrated by: Sheri Riley, full cast
- Length: 13 hrs and 58 mins
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Constantly striving to achieve one goal after another and investing more in our careers than in our actual lives have left many of us feeling overwhelmed, overworked, and disconnected from who we are. Take Sheri Riley. She rose to the top of her field and was miserable. Sure, she was successful, but she couldn't buy peace, and material possessions didn't bring her clarity. Now an empowerment speaker and life strategist, Sheri Riley shares the secret that helped her regain her sense of self and purpose.
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I did not like this book. At all!
- By Lillie on 02-08-18
By: Sheri Riley, and others
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Aware
- The Science and Practice of Presence - A Complete Guide to the Groundbreaking Wheel of Awareness Meditation Practice
- By: Daniel Siegel M.D.
- Narrated by: Daniel Siegel M.D.
- Length: 15 hrs and 20 mins
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Aware provides practical instruction for mastering the Wheel of Awareness, a life-changing tool for cultivating more focus, presence, and peace in one's life. An in-depth look at the science that underlies meditation's effectiveness, this audiobook teaches listeners how to harness the power of the principle "Where attention goes, neural firing flows, and neural connection grows". Siegel reveals how developing a Wheel of Awareness practice to focus attention, open awareness, and cultivate kind intention can help you grow a healthier brain and reduce fear and anxiety in your life.
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I've stopped listening after two chapters
- By Mar Sokol on 08-27-18
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Stacked
- Your Super-Serious Guide to Modern Money Management
- By: Joe Saul-Sehy, Emily Guy Birken
- Narrated by: Joe Saul-Sehy, Emily Guy Birken, Julie - Ray Harrison
- Length: 9 hrs and 40 mins
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Rich. Wealthy. Well-heeled. Moneyed. Affluent. Not bad — but why not get Stacked instead? If you’ve ever dreamed of a basic philosophy of money that’ll help you live bigger, be bolder, and laugh harder, you need this book. In these uncertain times, the basics matter more than ever. But for most of us, concepts such as investing, budgeting, and getting out of debt just don’t float our boats (or 150-foot yachts) — and so we put them off longer than we should.
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Great starter book to conceptualize finance
- By Rick B on 02-15-22
By: Joe Saul-Sehy, and others
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Of Woman Born
- Motherhood as Experience and Institution
- By: Adrienne Rich, Eula Biss - foreword, Dani McClain - introduction
- Narrated by: Gabra Zackman, Nicole Lewis, Dani McClain
- Length: 12 hrs and 59 mins
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Adrienne Rich's influential and landmark investigation concerns both the experience and the institution of motherhood. The experience is her own - as a woman, a poet, a feminist, and a mother - but it is an experience determined by the institution, imposed on all women everywhere. She draws on personal materials, history, research, and literature to create a document of universal importance.
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Must Read!
- By katherinemariea on 05-07-21
By: Adrienne Rich, and others
Lots of amazing information and insights!
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For me
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Knowledge with love
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Must read for parents and teachers!
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A must read/listen for anyone with a twice exceptional human in their life.
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Personally validating and highly insightful
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Must Read for Parents/Caregivers
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Practical and Helpful
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It tells everything about my child.
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Gifted and Distractible by Dr. Julie Skolnick is an enlightening and indispensable resource for parents, educators, and anyone involved in the lives of gifted children. This book masterfully addresses the unique challenges and characteristics that accompany giftedness, particularly when it intersects with distractibility and other twice-exceptional (2e) traits.
One of the most commendable aspects of this book is its empathetic and insightful approach. Dr.Skolnick blend personal anecdotes, professional expertise, and practical advice to create a guide that is both informative and relatable. The author’s understanding of the emotional and psychological landscape of gifted children is evident throughout, making the book not just a manual but a companion for those navigating this complex journey.
The book is structured to cover a broad spectrum of topics, from identifying giftedness and understanding its various manifestations to developing effective strategies for managing distractibility and other coexisting conditions. Each chapter is filled with real-world examples, evidence-based strategies, and actionable advice, making it easy for readers to implement the suggestions in their daily lives.
What sets Gifted and Distractible apart is its balanced approach. The author emphasize the importance of recognizing and nurturing the strengths of gifted children while also addressing their vulnerabilities. This dual focus ensures that readers gain a holistic understanding of their child’s needs and potential.
Another highlight is the emphasis on collaboration and communication. Dr.Skolnick stress the importance of building a supportive network that includes parents, teachers, and professionals. The book provides valuable tips on how to advocate for a child’s needs in educational settings and how to create a home environment that fosters growth and well-being.
In conclusion, Gifted and Distractible is a must-read for anyone seeking to better understand and support gifted children. Its compassionate tone, comprehensive content, and practical advice make it an invaluable tool. Dr. Skolnick have created a guide that not only educates but also inspires, offering hope and direction for those committed to nurturing the potential of gifted individuals.
A Comprehensive Guide for Understanding and Supporting Gifted Children
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