Unlocking Empowerment: 14 Keys to Self-Advocacy for Neurodivergent Children & Teens

THE AUTISM ADHD PODCAST

Holly Blanc Moses

Psychology, Mental Health, Health & Fitness, Kids & Family, Adhd, Speechtherapy, Autism, Autismawareness, Occupationaltherapy, Child, Therapy, Parent, Parenting, Education, Behavior

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🗓️ 31 January 2024

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Thanks for joining me today! In this episode, I identify 14 must-know areas of self-advocacy, provide examples and strategies on how to teach them. Why is this important? Lots of reasons. Self-advocacy can not only help support a child's needs but also their mental health and independence. You're going to LOVE this episode.

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Autism, ADHD podcast. I am so happy that you join me today. I want to take a moment and ask for your help. Please take just a second and give the podcast a five-star review.
0:19.5	This will help me continue the podcast and keep bringing you helpful
0:23.7	information. Thanks so much again for taking the time to give that five-star review. Now let's get
0:30.3	started. Hi everyone. I am thrilled that you join me today. We are going to talk about areas of self-advocacy.
0:42.0	Self-advocacy is an important skill for nerd-a-vurgent children to develop. It empowers them to express their needs, their challenges, and their preferences.
0:52.4	There's a really short, important episode on why kids don't self-advocate
0:58.0	that I released on December 5th, 2023, which is my birthday. So if you haven't listened to that
1:05.1	episode already, it's a great idea to go listen first. It's a quick one and it won't take long. So anytime we talk
1:14.0	about self-advocacy, it's important to remember that it's not just something the child or team
1:21.2	needs to learn. There's actually a lot to it. They can self-advocate a hundred times a day. And if parents, teachers, or caregivers,
1:31.7	aren't paying attention, if they're not really hearing them or believing them, all the efforts
1:37.7	that these kids are putting in to self-advocate are for nothing. They're going to stop.
1:44.9	They won't learn to self-advocate are for nothing. They're going to stop. They won't learn to self-advocate.
1:47.5	They'll think it doesn't work anyway.
1:49.6	That's what they tell me.
1:52.1	So we need to make sure that we believe them
1:54.7	and be open to understanding them.
1:58.3	And when they say something's hard,
2:03.4	when we see that something's wrong,
2:12.5	we need to recognize that they are struggling. We need to believe them when they act in a way that looks like they're upset or that they're mad, whatever that is, we need to be open to supporting
2:19.7	them and advocating alongside them. All of us, parents, teachers, therapists, all of us have had
2:28.6	some experience on some level of dismissing what a child is telling us in the only way they can tell us.
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