Is My Child Gifted, Disabled, or Both? Signs of Twice-Exceptionality Parents Often Miss
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Most educational consulting relies on aspirational frameworks that time-poor teachers struggle to implement. At Exceptional Like Me, we provide sustainable strategies grounded in Dr. Olivia Evans’ active classroom practice, bridging the gap between high-level theory and teaching reality.
Meeting NSW Standards
Under the Disability Standards for Education 2005, schools must ensure students with disability access education on the same basis as their peers. This includes high potential and gifted students with disability—a major focus of current NSW policy. These 2e learners are often chronically under-identified and underserved, frequently missing out on selective programs.
We help schools move beyond "box-ticking" to create achievable classroom habits that meet legal obligations, and more importantly, ensure your most complex students finally thrive.
Preparing for DDA Positive Duty
Proposed updates to the Disability Discrimination Act (DDA) will require educational institutions to exercise a positive duty—proactively providing adjustments and removing barriers rather than placing the burden on individual families to request them. We help schools, particularly academically selective and independent institutions, audit their processes and build proactive frameworks to stay ahead of compliance shifts.
Our school-level consulting is designed to be lean, actionable, and respectful of the constraints under which educators operate.
A high-level audit of how your school identifies and accommodates 2e learners, identifying gaps where talent may be overlooked.
Reviewing assessment tasks to ensure they measure a student’s knowledge rather than their executive functioning, working memory or processing speed limitations.
Providing strategies that work within existing school timetables and resource allocations.
Staff training and workshops focused on the 2e profile, strength-based pedagogy, and trauma-informed classroom management.
The Exceptional Like Me difference is a commitment to achievability. Because Olivia is an active educator, her recommendations aren't just theoretically sound—they are classroom-tested. We focus on "micro-adjustments" that yield significant results for 2e students while maintaining the integrity of the learning environment for the whole class.
Exceptional Like Me, led by Dr. Olivia Evans, provides specialised, neuroaffirming support for gifted and twice-exceptionality (2e) individuals. Combining elite academic qualifications with her own lived experience, Dr. Evans offers a unique strengths-based approach through educational consulting, neurodivergent coaching, and specialised tutoring.