Eileen Devine
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327 appearances
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first heard Nov 2019
last heard Nov 2019
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When if we can help that coach see, well, this is this is um dismaturity at play, these are lagging cognitive skills that need accommodated.
they're really they really are trying their best.
We need to adjust the expectations for the way their brain works.
Um, that's a whole different conversation.
But it takes a ton.
I mean, I think that's where parents I work with get most exhausted.
They're they're
trying to really support their child differently at home, which takes an awful lot of intentionality and energy.
And then also they're trying to educate everybody in that child's environment and get them on board with this neurobehavioral lens as well.
Yeah, that's a great question.
And it's one that parents ask
all the time and for very good reason that I'm sure all of us and your listeners can understand.
And my my response to that is yes, it's important and there's there's reasons for that in terms of um being able to name it.
Once we can name it, then we know better what to do, you know, to help our child do about it, whatever.
whatever way you want to look at it.
It also is, of course, really big with benefits in a lot of places, making sure that kids are entitled to the benefits that they need, the parents get the support they need.
And then of course in school, it always helps that um process of advocacy if you have um a diagnosis that you can point to to help explain
to the teacher and the staff why they're seeing the behaviors that they're seeing.
I do think though that because of this idea that FASD is just not
um in our common lingo in terms of diagnoses that that even with that name
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