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

TPP 274: Emily Kircher-Morris on Stigma, Labels, and Neurodiversity Affirming Parenting

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

Debbie Reber

Education, Kids & Family, Parenting

4.81K Ratings

🗓️ 23 November 2021

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

Emily Kircher-Morris, a licensed professional counselor, specialist in helping gifted and twice-exceptional kids, and host of The Neurodiversity Podcast, talks about destigmatizing neurodiversity and how to support twice exceptional 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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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

0:14.8

others?

0:15.8

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.

0:47.0

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.U. But there are still very few professionals who understand

0:59.1

how giftedness impacts those diagnoses and how you have to interpret those different scales.

1:07.5

And it's really frustrating when I have a kid who I know is twice exceptional and I send them and try to get them to go get an

1:15.1

evaluation and wherever they end up because of insurance or who knows whatever

1:18.4

reasons and sometimes they come back with a diagnosis totally off base because they haven't even done a

1:24.9

cognitive assessment or they don't understand how those cognitive assessments

1:28.8

influence things. Welcome to Till Parenting, a podcast featuring interviews and conversations aimed at inspiring,

1:37.8

informing and supporting parents raising differently wired kids.

1:41.6

I'm your host Debbie Reaver. On this week's episode I'm talking

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