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John Fyfe

John Fyfe

Associate Research Professor of STEM Education and Director of the Center for Innovation in STEM Education at Virginia Commonwealth University.

Jun 30, 2026

9:07
viewed.
9:08
And one of the starkest realities to me when you have a kid who has ADHD or autism, is when that kid walks into a room, the people who don't understand that kid usually have the opinion of, oh, here comes that kid.
9:29
And it's so easy to to mistake behaviors of the kid for misbehavior instead of the fact that the kid is dealing with a disability and has a very separate set of needs.
9:42
And that's one of the things that I think, of course, vocational rehabilitation counselors are much more trained in that way, but there's still more training that needs to happen.
9:53
so that they can assist parents, they can assist those students, so that they can actually be a liaison between the students and schools and administrators, so that they can better understand what this kid is actually dealing with and the supports that they really need.
10:10
So I heard that part of what you're saying.
10:13
It's really kind of so important that we focus on that.

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16:03
I want to know what you're most excited about with this work.

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