Welcome to the WIRE Differently podcast where we chat all about how to best support exceptional children.

I'm your host, Holly Blanc Moses, the mom psychologist who gets it.

Welcome, Dr. Jay Burke, an expert in video game overconsumption, gaming addiction, and digital addiction.

Hey, Holly. Thanks for inviting me.

It's so good to speak with you today. And, you know, this is such a big issue for parents, for professionals, for teachers. It really creates a difficult situation

for the child, but also a lot of big and difficult interactions for kids that are differently

wired, children diagnosed with autism and or ADHD.

Okay, so please introduce yourself.

I know a lot of people already know you, but for those who don't know you.

Well, I know me, so we'll see.

There you go.

So my name is Dr. Jay Burke.

I'm based in Cleveland, Ohio.

I work with kids all over the place.

My website's Jay Burke, Ph.D.com, J-A-Y-B-E-R-K-P-H-D.com. As I said, I'm a psychologist,

and I work with children, adolescents, and adults, and I've been in practice for over 25 years.

And what I've seen is a lot of growing issues with kids with electronics. This has been coming, and I've written two books now on it.

The one that's probably most relevant to our topic today is a parent's quick guide to electronic addiction, and it's available on Amazon.

But what I'm here today to talk about is give some tips to parents and professionals

on what to do.

So I think the first thing to start with is the idea of electronic addiction versus overconsumption.

I think that might be a good place.

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