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Full-Tilt Parenting: Strategies, Insights, and Connection for Parents Raising Neurodivergent Children

TPP 127: Behind the Scenes of TECA—Twice Exceptional Children's Advocacy

Full-Tilt Parenting: Strategies, Insights, and Connection for Parents Raising Neurodivergent Children

Debbie Reber

Education, Kids & Family, Parenting

4.81K Ratings

🗓️ 25 September 2018

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

Melissa Sornick, LCSW and Maratea Cantarella of TECA (Twice Exceptional Children's Advocacy) take us behind the scenes of the top resource for parents raising 2e kids. Connect with Tilt Parenting Visit Tilt Parenting Take the free 7-Day Challenge Read a chapter of Differently Wired Follow Tilt on Twitter & Instagram Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

If you're listening to this podcast, it's probably because a child you love and care for is differently wired.

0:07.0

Are they also struggling in their current educational setting, seen only for what they're doing wrong, while longing for positive relationships with peers and others?

0:15.6

Envision a world where your child's unique abilities are not just recognized but celebrated.

0:21.0

A world where they can connect with others and their true potential is seen and

0:24.9

appreciated. The Strength-based Assessment Lab's mission is to build a world for your child just

0:30.7

like that. Through its innovative approach that aims to empower students, families, educators, and professionals

0:36.3

to create positive, effective, and collaborative learning experiences.

0:40.2

Be a part of shaping a brighter future for your child.

0:43.0

Visit W. bgs.edU to learn more about what a strength-based assessment could mean for your family.

0:51.0

That's BgGS. Edu.

0:54.0

Two E kids are very, very complex.

0:57.0

It's a concept and it's a hard concept to understand and explain and there's a lot of frustration, there's a lot of self-doubt. So it's really

1:06.2

about this acceptance and being and allowing yourself to be vulnerable and say,

1:12.8

maybe I don't have all the answers, but I love my child.

1:16.3

And we're out there and we're together and we're doing the best that we can.

1:22.0

Welcome to Tilt Parenting, a podcast featuring interviews and conversations aimed at inspiring,

1:28.0

informing, and supporting parents raising differently wire kids.

1:31.6

I'm your host Debbie Reber. There are many aspects to running

1:34.9

tilt and doing this podcast that I love and one of them is introducing the

1:39.2

tilt community to helpful resources that have the potential to improve the quality of their

1:44.2

families lives. Today I'm happy to be dedicating this episode to one such

1:49.1

resource, an organization called the Twice Exceptional Children's Advocacy, better known as Tika.

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