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Rethinking Parenting Approaches For PDA Children
Parenting a child with Pathological Demand Avoidance (PDA) can feel isolating and challenging, especially as traditional approaches often miss the mark. If you’re raising a child with a PDA profile, this article offers a fresh perspective—one centered on empathy, collaboration, and flexibility.
Through personal insights and actionable tips, you’ll explore how small adjustments can create a more harmonious home life and help your child thrive. From reducing the pressure of daily routines to prioritizing self-care, this guide will empower you to transform struggles into strengths for both you and your child.
Intentionally Opening the World of Twice Exceptionality for Culturally Diverse Learners
Several years ago, as I continued to engage with school leaders and advocates to close the gaps in gifted education services, particularly as related to meeting the needs of our most underserved populations, I discovered another population of students that was gravely underserved in gifted and advanced learner services.
This discovery came about from multiple contexts, including but not limited to—conversations with colleagues and culturally diverse parents, meetings with school personnel, a review of the literature, and continuously keeping track of online services that were erupting across the nation designed to draw attention to the needs of twice-exceptional learners.
Across all these groups what became evident was that once again, culturally diverse learners—in particular Black, Brown, and low-income gifted learners were being overlooked. As a lifetime advocate and scholar representing underrepresented gifted learners, I felt compelled to speak up.
Creating Healthy Family Scripts When There’s No Manual
What do you do when your parent’s advice for raising your neurodivergent kiddo doesn’t work?
We learn a lot of things from our parents. We develop familial scripts, ways of talking and connecting that are often generational and unique to a family. Have you ever had the words your parents said to you fall out of your mouth?
What happens, though, when these scripts no longer work? We learn many things from our families, but even in the best of circumstances, what we learn may not fit the situation we have. We may not follow the cultural life scripts of our families. We may have children that no previous family script prepares us for.
3 Proven Strategies To Help Your 2e Kiddo Make Friends, NOW!
It's not easy having a bright kiddo who you know is so special, but who struggles to make friends. You know they have so much to offer others, if they could only break through.
A Sit Down With Seth Perler
It’s not every day you get to sit down with the one and only Seth Perler— a globally recognized executive function skill expert!
Last night, we had an amazing sit-down meeting in which we explored a wide array of topics, perhaps most timely of which was Seth sharing back-to-school executive function skill support.
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