TPP 174: Victoria Biggs Shares Her Story of Being Dyspraxic

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

Debbie Reber

Education, Kids & Family, Parenting

4.8 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 6 September 2019

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Academic, teacher, and writer Victoria Biggs shares her experience growing up as an autistic, dyspraxic child and explains how parents can support their similarly wired children. 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.
0:45.0	BGS.ed. E.d. you to learn more about what a strength-based assessment could mean for your family.
0:51.0	That's BGS.
0:52.0	E.d. you. family. That's BGS. Ed spent most of my life starting to think I was bad or broken or just not trying. I absorbed all the things that were said to me. And the moment of diagnosis with a wonderful
1:04.0	empathetic psychologist showed me that actually things were different.
1:10.0	Welcome to Till Parenting, a podcast featuring interviews and conversations aimed at inspiring, informing, and supporting parents raising differently wired kids.
1:20.0	I'm your host Debbie Reiber and today we're talking about dyspraxia a developmental
1:26.4	disorder which is most often associated with challenges related to motor
1:31.0	coordination but it's also often marked by disorganization, clumsiness, and poor short-term
1:38.1	memory. My guest is Victoria Biggs, and she knows firsthand what it's like to grow up with
1:44.3	dysproxia and when she was 16 years old she actually wrote a book to help teens
1:49.2	like her get through adolescence it's called Caged in Chaos, a dysprastic guide to breaking free.
1:56.8	Today, Vicky is a university research fellow and lecturer, a teacher in a school for children with trauma-related mental health problems, a writer,
2:06.2	and a storyteller.
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