Dr. Ellen Braaten

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Full-Tilt Parenting: Strategies, Insights, and Connection for Parents Raising Neurodivergent Children · TPP 019: Slow Processing Speed—What It Is and How to Support Kids Who Have It · 2 Aug 2016 podcast

Yes.

So what I wanted to achieve in writing it is to kind of give a voice to the parents who had been dealing with this and didn't have a way of describing it.

And I think over the years of of evaluating kids, I noticed that the kids who just never seemed to, you know, kept coming back year after year and never seeming to live up to their potential, they oftentimes that it was the processing speed that that tended

to be the weakest.

And so I wanted to kind of identify what the problem was and and understand it better.

So what I've tried to do is to kind of present it, look at how brain what we know about brain research can kind of inform what's happening.

Now we don't know an awful lot about processing speed.

It's really kind of a very new area of research to be honest.

And I and I think

with today's ability to kind of look at the brain in terms of the kinds of imaging we're able to do, it's allowing us to see how the brain actually processes information, not just looking at it statically, but looking at it in real time.

So I think it can be very helpful to have an idea that this is something that happens in the brain, that it's happens based on how quickly your brain can process

the chemicals that are going on and it's a a much longer answer, but but I think there's uh information in the book about that that I feel like for some parents can be very helpful.

And then I wanted we wanted to talk about how to help your child in daily life.

How does it apply to social relationships, to the classroom, to your daily life?

Um, what are the emotional costs of processing speed?

And as part of that we looked at our own clinic at

Massachusetts General Hospital and kind of just looked at okay, so what do these kids look like?

You know, what what kind of other issues do they have?

And it was very interesting for us to find out that our clinical hunch was correct that a lot of these kids have problems with social skills.

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