With the high prevalence of neurodiverse individuals also having Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD), it’s critical to understand what it is, what it isn’t, and how to manage it. In this episode, Jason explains OCD, why it’s different from the repetitive Autistic behavior called stemming, and why it’s important to understand the root causes. Jason shares the key to knowing how to manage OCD, helpful tips, and the one thing to never do.
It can be really challenging to know if we’re parenting too much or too little. Especially when we have a son or daughter, that’s neurodiverse and has some developmental delays or extra challenges. When your child enters the adulting transition, it can get even more complicated.
How much should we support and how much should we back off? What’s helpful and what’s not. Too little support and management may hinder their progress because they don’t have what they need. Too much support and management can also impede their growth and development.
In this episode, I offer perspectives to help you stay out of the extremes and look at parenting differently. I also offer you what I have found to be key in experiencing more parenting wins, no matter where your son or daughter is in their development or how much managing they need.
Join us for this in-depth discussion with Travis Slagle, the Clinical Director at Evoke Therapy Intensives.
Parenting can be really challenging, especially if we haven’t worked through our own issues. Parenting a neurodiverse child often adds additional stressors into the mix, bringing our personal issues into the equation.
We go into specifics of how that can look and feel in our parenting versus what effective parenting looks like even when we make mistakes, don’t have the answers, or face unsolvable problems.
We talk with Travis about how to recognize when we’re projecting and externalizing our own stress onto our children and family members and what questions you can ask yourself to create powerful shifts in your thinking and change how you show up as a parent.
Why is maintaining good physical health and hygiene such an issue for some autistic and neurodiverse young people? In this episode, Jason gets real about the challenges and negative outcomes some of them experience, and offers insights into understanding what may be behind it. He also shares his experience and perspectives on how to support good health and hygiene and what not to do.
Join us as we have a conversation with Eric Pedersen, the Dean of Science, Engineering, and Technology at Dixie State University in Southern Utah, who sits on the board of several technology companies, and is a founding partner at our program for neurodiverse young adults, TechieForLife. Eric gets candid about the patterns he sees among neurodiverse students and what supports are needed to help them be successful not only at college but also in the workforce. We discuss how to improve chances of getting into tech jobs, the tech talent shortage and the attractive strengths neurodiverse students bring to the table.
For part three of Parenting with Confidence, I share a simple yet effective tool and process to help you have the confidence to weather the inevitable bumps and challenges that come with parenting. Join me as I encourage you to examine where you focus your time and energy and consider if it’s actually in areas you have control over or not. I explain what area of parenting is always my top priority over everything else and how you can use the tool I share to support you in this area.
Join us for this episode as we have a chat with our two oldest boys, Dalton and Lee. They open up about some of the challenges they’ve experienced and ways they’ve learned to cope. We talk about adoption, autism and ADHD, social needs, school, work, and more.
Learn about creating an environment where your neurodiverse child, teenager, or young adult has motivation to grow and develop rather than staying comfortably stuck and miserable. In this episode, Jason draws on examples from mentoring students at TechieForLife to illustrate balancing discomfort with growth, building relationships of influence, and the most effective way to promote change.
In this episode, we chat with Betina Wildhaber, the author and creator of neurodiversitynetwork.com that consolidates various neurodiversity resources into one place with the goal of enhancing awareness and acceptance for neurodivergents to find meaningful employment and educational experiences.
We discuss specific things neurodivergent job seekers can do to better prepare for and find employment.
We also talk about the kinds of changes employers are making to their interview processes, training, and incorporation of “universal design” techniques to improve the hiring and retention of neurodiverse employees.
In part two of Parenting With Confidence, Debbie explains why many parenting strategies give us mixed results and what you can do to improve results. Our best parenting comes from high-quality relationships and that always starts with us and the way we show up for our kids.