Friends and colleagues often include symbols and acronyms (and symbolic acronyms) within their social media profiles. These letterforms represent shared and self-selected identities. None of them “feel” quite right to me. That’s not a new issue for me, as I have written many times about my ambivalence regarding labels and…
Tag: ADD/ADHD
Podcast 0115; Season 7, Episode 8; 10 July 2024 NOTE: Originally Recorded 18 August 2023 Jenny Sandler and HomeschoolUK.com Jenny Sandler is an experienced educator working with autistic children and adolescents both in and out of school. She holds an M.A. in literacy and an M.Ed. in autism in children.…
Podcast 0101, Season 6, Episode 11; 15 May 2023 Laura Hernandez on Maintaining Systems at Home Laura Hernandez is the CEO and founder of Mama Systems, a coaching business that helps moms create peace in their homes through systems. So many of us are simply reacting to life and surviving…
Podcast 0100, Season 6, Episode 10; 18 April 2023 Recording Number 100! Of course, it’s about education because that’s what dominates my life. Specifically, this is a reflection on reaching the end of our homeschooling experience. Transcript Welcome to Perspectives on Neurodiversity, a podcast dedicated to challenging myths and assumptions…
The public school experiment for 2022-23 ran its course by January 26, 2023, when we gave the fifth grader a mental health day at home. She won’t be returning this school year. During the last three weeks, we became aware of problems we didn’t know existed at the school, learned…
Podcast 0098; Season 6, Episode 8; 17 January 2023 Dr. Walt Karniski on ADHD Medication: Does It Work and Is It Safe? From Dr. Karniski’s publicist: The Big Idea: ADHD is one of the most common problems that pediatricians, pediatric neurologists, and pediatric psychiatrists manage. Most studies indicate that 6-8…
If I were not home, our children would still require supplemental supports. Those are expensive and not fully covered by insurance. At home, I am the provider of physical therapy, occupational therapy, speech therapy, reading supports, behavioral intervention, and much more. Mothers (and fathers) knew this before the pandemic. Special…
It’s not fair to Anne, but I am tired of working with her. That exhaustion makes me feel guilty. When I get frustrated with her academic struggles, I need to remind myself that she’s trying her best. The ADHD, dyslexia, and working memory deficiency don’t merely add up to a…
Podcast 0092, Season 6, Episode 2; 6 September 2022 Carolina Gutierrez on ADHD and Entrepreneurship When advocates discuss Neurodiversity, we include ADHD alongside autism, and many autistics also have ADHD diagnoses. As this audience knows, my daughters and I all have ADHD diagnoses. Our struggles differ, however, because ADHD takes…
August certainly didn’t end the way we had hoped. “Anne” is back to homeschooling and I’m doing all I can to get her back on track after the attempted return to public school. It feels like she’s had every school year at home. I believe she’s had at least a…