Dr. Emily King
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first heard Dec 2024
last heard Dec 2024
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And their executive functioning increases.
Their anxiety goes down when their interest is aligned with what we are teaching them.
We all know this in our work with them.
Educators know this.
And what's hard about education is the lack of flexibility in the curriculum.
What's awesome about life is that we actually have more freedom to help our child or our young adult figure out
What do they need and how can it be aligned with what you're interested in and what you're good at?
So I would take effectiveness and tease it out into skills and interests.
And of course, some of those interests will be joys as well.
I would love anyone listening who is autistic to chime in about in my experience with autistic teens who can talk to me about this.
It's really hard for them to even feel effective if it's not interesting to them.
And I think we, in a neurotypical world, we often think of interest as completely being aligned with joy only, play only.
That's what we're interested in.
But for all of us, like, this is why I'm like, we can learn so many lessons from our autistic, wonderful people that share.
I mean, oh my gosh, my son has taught me so much, right?
So thinking about how we can align interests and skills together.
And I think of it more as when we think about self-advocacy, I think about it more as alignment, which reminds me of window of tolerance, right?
Which Dan Siegel's work, when we think about window of tolerance as, you know, staying in a regulated state, we're not overly stressed, we're not shut down.
But zooming out on a macro level of what is a job, an activity that
a relationship that's going to help my kid feel like they're living in their window of tolerance, right?
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