Devorah Heitner

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Full-Tilt Parenting: Strategies, Insights, and Connection for Parents Raising Neurodivergent Children · TPP 128b: Digital Media and Technology Expert Devorah Heitner on Helping Kids Be Screenwise · 3 Oct 2025 podcast

And then when it's not in use, it's away.

But that's not always what we see.

What we see sometimes is, oh here everybody, we got a big grant.

Here's the Chromebooks.

Go for it.

And, you know, even if your kid doesn't have ADHD or isn't on the spectrum or doesn't have any other neurological diagnosis, they may be completely distracted.

But for kids, you know, with different kinds of L Ds or

you know, neurological differences who maybe are already struggling to keep it together during the school day and already looking for a way to tune out the noise or do something else, then that Chromebook or that iPad or that laptop could be very, very distracting.

It could be a place to escape from school.

not necessarily to enhance your engagement with what's going on around you.

Right.

I mean it can support differentiation and that's what people will say.

If you go in as a parent to your IEP meeting or in Canada your SEP and you know, every country has their lingo for how we talk about if you if you have a team at school that's working with your child to individuate

their path or to support them with additional services.

hopefully you can then talk to them about the role of tech there and what they're gonna say as well the tech is supporting differentiation.

You know, which can also be gifted kids, right?

So maybe your kid is getting harder math problems than the kids sitting next to them, and that can be easier to do when it's an app versus a worksheet.

The flip side is your gifted kid may have hacked the whole system and may be busy writing their novel when everyone else is doing math.

And maybe if you're like me, you're like, Well, maybe that's okay some of the time.

Maybe I'm you know, but if they're gonna get in trouble, if there's gonna be a consequence, then maybe you don't want your kids spending a day hacking the system.

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