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Should Students Know Their Own Diagnoses? | Liz Angoff
What happens when a student’s diagnosis could help them understand themselves—but the adults around them aren’t ready for them to know?
In this episode, I talk with educational psychologist Dr. Liz Angoff about helping students become authentic collaborators in understanding their own brains, rather than simply telling them what an assessment says about them.
We bring Liz a tricky situation straight from the Anti-Boring Learning Lab: a coach working with a teenager whose family is reluctant to share a new autism diagnosis. That leads us into a much bigger conversation about autonomy, support…
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