Welcome back to another episode of the Empower LEP Podcast.
This episode was such a fun and insightful conversation with Dr. Liz Angoff! If you’re not familiar with her work, Dr. Liz is a Licensed Educational Psychologist with a Diplomate in School Neuropsychology, providing assessment and consultation services to children and their families in the Bay Area, CA. She’s also the author of the Brain Building Books, a fantastic set of tools designed to help kids understand their learning and developmental differences in a meaningful, interactive way.
Tune in and learn about:
🔹 Free, customizable tools – Dr. Liz has developed an incredible collection of resources on ExplainingBrains.com, including summary sheets, visuals, and videos to help explain diagnoses to kids in a way that truly resonates. She’s also integrating AI-generated content to make reports more parent-friendly—she’s at the cutting edge of using AI to enhance our clinical work!
🔹 Making assessment feedback engaging – Dr. Liz is passionate about making results accessible, affirming, and engaging for kids and families. Her Brain Building Books are designed to bring children into the feedback process in a fun, interactive way, helping them feel empowered in understanding their own brains.
🔹 APA-approved CEU courses – Dr. Liz is now offering CEU courses on topics like neurodiversity-affirming assessment and collaborative feedback. Plus, her upcoming AI workshop sounds like it’ll be super practical and hands-on—definitely one to check out!
🔹 Dr Liz is offering an upcoming AI workshop that sounds super practical and hands-on. She'll cover specific ways we can use AI as a "co-pilot" to help structure information, find real-world examples, and get creative in explaining things to families. Liz will teach us how to review the AI-generated content to ensure accuracy and relevance.
Dr. Liz Angoff is such an incredible resource for our field, and I’m so grateful she took the time to share her insights with us.
🎧 Listen to Episode 60 on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, or YouTube—and don’t forget to subscribe!
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Website: www.ExplainingBrains.com, www.DrLizAngoff.com
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