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

TPP 286: A Conversation with Twice-Exceptional Teen Jordan O'Kelley

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

Debbie Reber

Education, Kids & Family, Parenting

4.81K Ratings

🗓️ 22 March 2022

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

16-year-old, autistic college student Jordan O'Kelley shares his personal story of growing up twice-exceptional, learning how to advocate for himself, and helping raise awareness and understanding for other 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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If you're listening to this podcast, it's probably because a child you love and care for is differently wired.

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E.d. you. I would say it is extremely important for students to be in

0:58.8

control of the pace that they're learning at and in control of what it is that they're learning. You can't teach an

1:06.1

art student marine by, I mean you could you could teach that marine biology I

1:10.5

guess they're interested in that but if they don't want to learn that and if they're

1:13.6

actively against learning that no matter how long you spend in that classroom they're never

1:17.8

learning it and if you're going marine biology over the course of three years when you could do it in three months

1:24.4

that's also a problem and you know vice versa if you're doing it at three months

1:28.1

when it should take three years that's an issue as well.

1:39.2

Welcome to Tilt Parenting, a podcast featuring interviews and conversations aimed at inspiring, informing and supporting parents raising differently wired kids.

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