How to Navigate Conflicting Perspectives when you Collaborate to Support Neurodivergent Children
Exploring Neurodiversity with Adina Levy from Play. Learn. Chat
Release Date: 04/30/2024
My Journey through AuDHD (Autistic + ADHD) Identification / Diagnosis
Exploring Neurodiversity with Adina Levy from Play. Learn. Chat
In this episode, I'll share my journey to identification as an Autistic ADHDer. I recently got an email from another speech therapist who is in the neuro questioning phase. And she asked me this "As I understand you were late diagnosed. I wanted to ask you about your experience getting diagnosed and what you feel have been the benefits and drawbacks of it" and I really, really thank you for this email. And interestingly, I think within a day I got a message on Instagram from somebody else with a very similar question. So I thought it is probably high time for me to share a bit more...
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How to Navigate Conflicting Perspectives when you Collaborate to Support Neurodivergent Children
Exploring Neurodiversity with Adina Levy from Play. Learn. Chat
In this episode, I'm going to be sharing some practical ideas about how you can tackle a challenge that a lot of us experience. Whether you're a therapist, a teacher, a parent, or a carer of a neurodivergent child. At some point when supporting this child, you're going to be interacting with a team around them. And at some point you're going to be experiencing different approaches to how you will support that title, how you believe that child should be supported. It can be incredibly hard to navigate these different perspectives and to find that common ground and come to a productive point in...
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Responsive Relationship Strategies for Building Connection with Autistic Children
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In this episode, I'm super excited to be talking about a topic that is just deeply embedded in my clinical practice, in my worldview and in how I support autistic children in my whole life. And that topic is Responsive relationship strategies for building connection with the autistic children in your life. We'll be outlining some of the ideas behind what forms responsive relationships. And the opposite, what forms directive relationships and why that can be quite damaging or challenging for your relationship with the autistic kids in your world. Register for the Communicate and Connect...
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Ingredients of Self-Advocacy
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Self-advocacy is not as simple as just learning one skill or one isolated thing. In the neurodiversity affirming world and in the therapy world, we love talking about self-advocacy, but what is it and how do you get there? I like to think of the components of self-advocacy is being broken up into four main sub parts: Supportive Environment & Community - Safe people and spaces that encourage, believe you, facilitate and offer support Self-awareness of Needs & Preferences - You need to be aware of what you like, need, and don’t like or don’t want Self-worth &...
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"But you seem so sociable" - Experiences of High-Masking Autistic Folks
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In this episode, I explore the reasons and impacts of masking for high-masking autistic people (who are often, but not always girls, AFAB, or non-binary folks). I talk some ways that high-masking autistic people can appear in the world, and share my hope for the future of Autistic kids and people everywhere to feel freer and more comfortable to know and be themselves! Yellow Ladybugs Conference that I mention: - If you have ANY Autistic people in your life who are girls/women/AFAB/nonbinary, this is the event of the YEAR. It's 3 days online and the 3rd day is also in person, in...
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On Masking & Finding Community - Chat with Chelsea Luker, AuDHD Psychologist
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📺 Watch the video of our chat on YouTube: Get in touch with Chelsea Luker: @Connectuspsychology (Instagram) - Connect Us Psychology (FB) - Grab her book Square Me Round World - this is the preferred link for the hardcover version. International should be able to find the book on Amazon, Barnes and Noble, Waterstones etc. Podcast Link: Website: Instagram: Facebook:
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What's next for the Exploring Neurodiversity Podcast?
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Complete the 3 minute podcast survey to help me plan 2024! Neurodivergent business owners, please join me for the Aligned Business Workshop! Through my new business Neurodivergent Business Coaching & Consulting - Podcast Link: Website: Instagram: Facebook:
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5 Reasons Why Multimodal Communication is Essential for Autistic Children
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It's non-negotiable to be supporting, modelling, using, teaching multimodal communication to autistic kids. And I share why in this episode. Here are my 5 reasons why multimodal communication is essential for autistic children: 1. We all use multimodal communication 2. It is a human right to be able to access communication in different modes 3. Speech or mouth words can be hard for many reasons. And it's not the ultimate or 'best' way of communicating 4. The most important thing about communication is that it can lead to connection 5. Many autistic children have processing challenges...
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Old way/New way - Upgrading to Neurodiversity Affirming Strategies for Autistic Children
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I'm sharing 3 strategies that we need to leave in the past, and 3 strategies that are more aligned with a Neurodiversity Affirming approach - let's call them 'Old way' and 'new way'! OLD WAY: First do the boring ‘work’ task, then do the fun activity NEW WAY: Use intrinsic motivation: Ensure that the ‘main’ activity is motivating for the child OLD WAY: Intrude - Insert yourself into the child’s play when they’re playing solo NEW WAY: Join in with the child... Sometimes. Let them play solo sometimes. Honour their sensory & social capacity OLD WAY: Shape an...
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Ingredients for a Neurodiversity Affirming Speech Therapy Assessment
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In this episode, I'm sharing with you the ingredients that go into a Neurodiversity Affirming speech therapy assessment. We’ll talk about my framework 'CPIE' — Child, Partner, Interaction, Environment — and how it frames our approach to understanding the communication skills of Autistic children within the context of their relationships & worlds. Whether you're a speech therapist, educator, parent, or caregiver, you'll gain insights on the importance of seeing beyond the child's immediate abilities and considering their functional opportunities, important relationships,...
info_outlineIn this episode, I'm going to be sharing some practical ideas about how you can tackle a challenge that a lot of us experience. Whether you're a therapist, a teacher, a parent, or a carer of a neurodivergent child. At some point when supporting this child, you're going to be interacting with a team around them. And at some point you're going to be experiencing different approaches to how you will support that title, how you believe that child should be supported. It can be incredibly hard to navigate these different perspectives and to find that common ground and come to a productive point in how you work together to achieve solid support for this child.
I'm going to share the following five strategies that can be very useful for conflict resolution, but also give you an example of what that might sound like, exactly what you might say, depending on the situation of course:
1. Build Empathy
2. Ask open-ended questions with curiosity
3. Take time to reflect and process in private
4. Assess possible outcomes
5. Collaborate to come to solutions together
Keep learning with me!
Episode 9 of the Exploring Neurodiversity Podcast: Collaboration & Advocacy: When others aren't aligned with your Neurodiversity Affirming approach to supporting Neurodivergent Kids: https://pod.link/1625478932/episode/248b03be6c287bbadb09dd2264a0933d
- Responsive Relationships: Communication Strategies for Professionals to Connect with Neurodivergent Children
- Collaborative Connections: Coach and Communicate with Carers & Teams of Neurodivergent Children
- Supportive Spaces: Creating Inclusive and Accessible Environments to Support Neurodivergent Children in their Communities