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started. Welcome Alexandra Bergman back to the Autism-A-D-D podcast.

Hi, Holly. Thanks for having me. I'm so excited to be here. So good. So I'm going to introduce you really quick.

You are a master IEP coach who has built on your skills as a former teacher and a parent of three differently wired children.

Your mission is to support neuroidivision families and set up collaborative systems with schools

and professionals. And thank goodness for you. Oh, thank you. Today we're going to talk about 10 school tips for teachers and parents.

And what's so great about these tips is they are often the ones that we give most often.

You as a person that supports nerve divergent families and me as a therapist.

Okay, you ready?

I'm ready.

Number one tip for all of you listening, Alex and I always say the child's voice first.

And I don't know why I'm clapping. Like I'm emphasizing this. The child's voice first. And I don't know why I'm clapping.

Like I'm emphasizing this.

The child's voice first.

And Alex, what do you think about that?

Because I find that this is sometimes unfortunately the last thing that happens.

Yeah, I think so many times, especially, you know, with our kids with ADHD,

autism, dyslexia, dyscalculia, discopia, you know, any of these different things going on,

you know, they're kind of bossed around all the time. And, you know, then you kind of get those

oppositional defiant behaviors that come along with that.

So if we're respecting the child's voice and listening to them, you know, I'm really tuning in

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