Teaching Self-Advocacy to Children Diagnosed with Autism and/or ADHD
THE AUTISM ADHD PODCAST
Holly Blanc Moses
4.9 • 686 Ratings
🗓️ 18 May 2020
⏱️ 30 minutes
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Summary
Many differently wired children grow up feeling like what they want or need doesn't matter. Let's change that! But how? A step in the right direction is self-advocacy:) Teaching them to advocate for themselves has many benefits, including improving self-awareness, decreasing depression, and anxiety, promoting communication, building community resources, increasing social-emotional skills, and enhancing motivation.
In this important podcast episode, Dr. Tara Regan and I chat about choice. routines, 504 and IEP participation, pursuing passions, masking, isolation prevention, and post-secondary goals.REMEMBER - It's NEVER too early to teach your child, student or client to self-advocate:) LISTEN for simple strategies that you can start using today!
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The Mom/Psychologist Who Gets It
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Wire Differently podcast where we chat all about how to best support exceptional children. |
| 0:06.8 | I'm your host, Holly Blanc Moses, the mom psychologist who gets it. |
| 0:16.2 | Welcome, Dr. Tara Regan. You're so awesome. I'm glad that we were able to chat today on the WIRE |
| 0:23.7 | Differently podcast, and we're doing video too for those of you who prefer to watch. So, |
| 0:30.5 | Tara, why don't you go ahead and introduce yourself to our listeners? |
| 0:34.4 | Sure. Well, it's so great to be talking with you today, Holly, and even in this format, too. I was so |
| 0:40.3 | excited when we connected because we're actually in the same area. We both live in North Carolina |
| 0:45.8 | in the Triangle area, and I am involved in the autism field in a couple of different ways. So |
| 0:52.6 | personally, I have two brothers on the |
| 0:54.7 | spectrum, Tyler and Tanner, Tanner, Tanner, 20. So we are in the throes of adulthood right now. |
| 1:02.6 | So that's been a huge part of my journey as well into the professional side of things when it comes to autism. |
| 1:11.2 | I tried and worked in a few different areas from camps, |
| 1:15.9 | like down here in North Carolina, |
| 1:17.5 | we have a camp called Camp Royal for individuals on the spectrum of all ages. |
| 1:21.9 | And then since from there, I've been involved in direct care work, |
| 1:25.5 | social work, my master's, and then I just finished my PhD |
| 1:30.0 | in special education, focusing on the needs of teens on the spectrum as they grew up and |
| 1:36.8 | navigate adulthood, which was really perfect timing because both my brothers were teens |
| 1:41.6 | at that period of time. And so once I finished up my PhD, they were both |
| 1:46.5 | in adulthood. We were trying to figure out what life after high school was going to look like |
| 1:52.0 | for my youngest brother. And we had also been on the Medicaid IDD waiver for almost 10 years at that |
| 1:58.7 | point and had gotten off the wait list, got a couple slots for both |
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