Gwen Vogelgang
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271 appearances
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first heard Oct 2019
last heard Oct 2019
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Yeah, but what about being at school makes your brain tired?
You have to focus a lot.
Keep going.
Make it, yeah.
So Rylan has auditory and visual processing struggles.
So he hears, like, 125% out of one of his ears, and he gets very visually overstimulated.
So...
I've spent a lot of my parenting years trying to figure out how to make the school environment less stimulating.
I think it's naturally overstimulating pretty much anywhere you go in a school setting.
And that just he attends to everything he sees and everything he hears.
And so to weed out the information he's supposed to be taking in versus everything else around him is, I mean, it's pretty much impossible for him to do.
So yeah, his brain is exhausted.
I don't know that I really understood that until we started doing this book and he started drawing pictures about his brain and then describing what that feels like.
So it definitely helped me get more of a visual as far as when he walks into school, kind of what he's up against all day long.
And it gives me just more patience as his mom when he comes home, understanding how exhausted
he physically and emotionally and his sensory system is just kind of shot.
I hope so.
And we're doing a curriculum guide to go with the book that you can have as a virtual download.
And that's where I can kind of have my piece in there talking to teachers about that parent perspective that, you know, it's just impossible to have.
We can't expect that every teacher understands what his journey is like, because if it's not something you've lived, it's not something that you can fully grasp.
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