Supporting Your Neurodivergent Child at School and Home
Welcome to Supporting Your Neurodivergent Child, where we are learning brains and growing hearts! This podcast is a resource for parents, caregivers, teachers, school clinicians, administrators, or anyone interested in the psychology of learning. Episodes include a variety of formats and topics, such as deep dives on childhood ADHD, autism, anxiety, intellectual disability, and specific learning disorders like dyslexia. Supporting Your Neurodivergent Child is hosted by Ivanna Lukie, a Canadian school psychologist and parent.
Supporting Your Neurodivergent Child at School and Home
85: 5 Things Neurodivergent Kids Need Adults to Understand
Use Left/Right to seek, Home/End to jump to start or end. Hold shift to jump forward or backward.
Welcome to the very first episode of Supporting Your Neurodivergent Child.
In this episode, we're starting with an important foundation: 5 things neurodivergent kids really need the adults in their lives to understand.
Children with ADHD, autism, dyslexia, exceptionality, dyslexia, giftedness, learning differences, anxiety, and other forms of neurodivergence are often navigating environments that weren't designed with their brains in mind. When adults shift how we interpret behaviour, learning, and regulation, we can support these kids in more effective and compassionate ways.
Whether you're a parent, an educator, or a clinician, this episode explores key ideas that can help us better understand and support neurodivergent kids at school, at home, and in everyday life.
If you have any questions or topics you want me to cover on the podcast, please email me at SchoolforUsCommunity@gmail.com or click "Send Us a Text" in this episode description.
If you like Supporting Your Neurodivergent Child helpful, please share it with a friend or follow the podcast, so it's more likely to get to listeners who also need it. Thank-you!
xo Ivanna
