Dr. Emily King

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Full-Tilt Parenting: Strategies, Insights, and Connection for Parents Raising Neurodivergent Children · TPP 418: Redefining Success for Neurodivergent Children, with Dr. Emily King · 17 Dec 2024 podcast

The more and more I worked in schools, the more I saw all the things that interfere with learning.

At the time, we called everything behavior, right?

This was 20 years ago, all the behavior that was getting in the way of learning.

I was doing so much consultation with teachers.

And then that, of course, evolved into my private practice work after I was in the schools.

Then I

getting into just the mental health pieces of underneath, as we know from our dear colleague and friend, Mona Delahug, everything underneath the surface of the iceberg.

And it is not just behavior.

And so over time, I have really fallen in love with all of these awesome neurodivergent kids that I work with.

And they're

just completely unique experiences of intelligence, but also their interests, their nervous system experiences, and how that's not aligned with how we traditionally structure and teach in school.

And so over time, it's become a huge passion of mine.

Anyone who's followed me before also knows that I'm raising two neurodivergent boys who are

now 11 and 17.

And that life as a parent has been parallel to my clinical work, but also obviously informed where I spend my energy, what I feel like is important to fight for.

And we, I know we were talking about this right before, but also the edges of not pushing so hard that we reach defensiveness in groups where we've got to be collaborative and

Because we won't reach any type of progress for our kids if we don't.

So those are some of my passions in a nutshell.

But I do feel like I'm in this moment of all my interests coming together and so much interest from parents and educators to learn more about how our kids are struggling to learn within the current system.

of education we have set up for them, which historically has been designed to meet the masses.

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