Eliza Fricker

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Full-Tilt Parenting: Strategies, Insights, and Connection for Parents Raising Neurodivergent Children · TPP 307: Eliza Fricker Talks Parenting a Child with PDA · 18 Oct 2022 podcast

So within the mainstream system, I think the stats are pretty bleak.

I think the PDA society talk about 70%.

of PDA profile children are not in education.

I think you have to look at our education system and what it is and what it stands for and its school uniforms, its learning by rote, its homework.

There isn't much difference from one mainstream school to another.

However, we do have

different educational settings that you can access if you have the right paperwork, legal documents to support that.

So we've been very fortunate that we now have an independent specialist setting, which does a much more kind of democratic way of learning.

It's very strength based.

It's trauma informed.

It's holistic.

There's lots of staff involved.

But in the mainstream, it's incredibly difficult.

And I think that something that parents get quite upset with is the teachers not doing more.

But you have to remember the teachers are as stuck in these systems.

You know, many of them go into teaching for the right reasons and find out that they're as restricted in what they can bring to those children and those lessons as well.

I think if they can offer as much flexibility within that system that they're in, if we're talking about the mainstream setting, often it's things like allowing for lots and lots of breaks within that day, allowing that child to come out of that classroom and do something else.

all of the support that you will offer a child with PDA will need to be very, very subtle.

They won't want to look any different from their peers.

So there's no point sticking a laminated visual timetable in front of them and giving them timeout cards.

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