The Wall of Awful: Why Starting Feels Impossible
When people with ADHD struggle to start, return to, or finish a task, their inaction is frequently mislabeled as laziness, poor motivation,...
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Neurodiversity Podcast
The Neurodiversity Podcast talks with leaders in the fields of psychology, education, and beyond, about positively impacting neurodivergent people. Our goal is to reframe differences that we...
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The Asynchrony Paradox: Why Capable Kids Struggle with the Basics
When raising or teaching gifted, twice-exceptional, and differently wired children, adults often face the emotional whiplash of asynchronous...
Neurodivergent Capacity: Why Can They Do It Sometimes But Not Every Time?
When supporting neurodivergent kids, adults often struggle to balance when to gently challenge a child and when to pull back to prevent nerv...
Learning Differences And Emotional Well-Being Aren't Separate, and Here's Why
It's easy to view academic difficulties and mental health challenges as two separate issues when a child struggles. However, the emotional t...
The Evolution of Assessment: It's More Than Just a Score
As public understanding of neurodiversity continues to grow, evaluators face a shifting landscape when assessing clients whose traits don't...
Autistic Girls Are Going Undiagnosed or Misdiagnosed
Often, autistic girls are called shy, introverted, perfectionistic, confused, anything BUT autistic. There is a pervasive impression, even i...
The Right to Be Heard: Reclaiming Communication Autonomy
The baseline premise of Augmentative and Alternative Communication (AAC) rests on the fundamental principle that communication is an inheren...
What We're Learning About (Pervasive) Pathological Demand Avoidance
When an autistic child or teen consistently pushes back against daily expectations, traditional parenting and teaching methods often default...
The Parenting Long Game: Finding the Problem Under the Problem
Today we talk about how parent reactivity, historical family patterns, and systemic overwhelm inadvertently trap families in cyclical power...
The Rewards and Punishment Paradox with Alfie Kohn
Within traditional educational and parenting paradigms, behaviorist strategies such as token economies, behavior color charts, and positive...
Educator Burnout: Why "Remember Your Why" Isn't Enough
The high statistical prevalence of burnout in the education system has moved past the realm of speculation and into undeniable systemic real...
Deconstructing Gifted Burnout
When highly capable children spend years cruising through an educational system where academic rigor is geared toward the average, they fail...
Waiting for Sleep: Chronobiology and Neurodivergence
When a neurodivergent child or teen struggles with daytime focus, emotional volatility, or low frustration tolerance, caregivers naturally l...
Understanding ADHD Children
Parents often believe they know their children, when in reality they haven't made the effort to really understand them. That understanding c...
From Special Ed to Law School: Redefining Autistic Potential
When creating policies and environments for neurodivergent students, schools frequently rely on outward observations, behavioral data, and t...
The Secret Ingredients for Emotional Regulation
When a student or child is dysregulated, adults often focus entirely on finding the right words to say or the appropriate consequence to giv...
Beyond Motivation: Why We Struggle to Start
How often do we label someone "unmotivated" or "defiant" when they fail to start a task? What if the barrier isn't a lack of will, but an in...
Interoception Is a Sense Few Understand
Interoception plays a pivotal role in how all people perceive and engage with their bodies and the world around them. For neurodivergent peo...
Why Conventional Parenting Fails 2E Kids
In this episode, Emily sits down with Dr. Danika Maddocks to deconstruct why conventional parenting advice - like reward charts and strict c...
The Lost Girls of ADHD: Inattentive in Girls and Women
Why is inattentive ADHD so often missed, especially in girls? In this episode, Emily Kircher-Morris is joined by Cynthia Hammer , author of...