Dr. Emily King
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first heard Dec 2024
last heard Dec 2024
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And of course, we know from polyvagal theory, if anyone wants to go in a rabbit hole of reading Stephen Porges' work, that when we are in that dysregulated state, it's the social engagement that brings us back into the window of tolerance.
The tricky part in my work and with talking with teachers is that for autistic students, it's not always just the social engagement.
It's the trusted person that makes them feel safe, but sometimes their interests make them feel safe.
Sometimes, I mean, I've worked with so many parents and sometimes teachers who say, I was able to get the student regulated by talking about physics.
And they're like in fourth grade, right?
You know, so there are different things we can try to regulate children.
And it's starting to all come together.
But where this lands with my work and collaboration is that parents are going to know these little tricks from trial and error.
Or like, oh, you know, a fourth grade teacher is never going to think to talk about physics to regulate a kid.
You wouldn't know unless a parent told you, right?
And then a teacher...
might say teachers, I always joke with them, like they do not have time to enable anybody.
So if a child is not, you know, doing a skill consistently at home, and it's really only because the parents anxiety might be triggering you to step in a little too soon, like you're worried, you're going to be late, or you're worried, they're never going to do it correctly, or something like
I always say, ask your teacher if they can do it at school, because I promise you the teacher's not doing that for them unless it is a skill weakness and they can't do it.
But if it's an emerging skill and it's like, I don't want to do this because it's hard, that's where we can communicate with each other about figuring out
the level of emerging skills, which is completely a moving target with our neurodivergent kids, I always say to families that I work with, throw the milestones, the paper, the pediatrician gives you out the window, this is your child with their milestones, and they're going to be some that are above, you know, my I have a kid who taught himself to read at three.
I knew what I was looking at, but that was not expected.
And then I've got one that learned to read on time.
And his older brother was like, what's wrong with you?
Why can't you read when he was five?
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