Maria Kennedy

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439 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard Mar 2022 last heard Mar 2022

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Full-Tilt Parenting: Strategies, Insights, and Connection for Parents Raising Neurodivergent Children · TPP 284: Maria Kennedy on What's Needed & What's Next in the Movement to Support 2e Students · 8 Mar 2022 podcast

One of the things that's always aggravated me is that often people aren't open to something new because they've always done it this way.

And I'm going, just because we've always done it this way doesn't mean that that's the only way or the right way.

You know, as I mean, years ago we didn't have the World Wide Web.

We didn't have computers.

So, should we not have them now?

We now have the technology.

And I'm going, education needs to move in such a way that we broaden our definitions and that we definitely reach out and meet those needs of those children that have been underserved.

I was at an online conference thing that it was the Stanford one, and there were lots of people who were talking about the fact that.

That they hadn't been identified as neurodiverse until they were in their adulthood.

For a lot of them, what had happened was as they were taking their children through their struggle, right?

And things were being pointed out that their children were having issues with, they recognized that they too had had those issues.

And a guy in his late 40s finally was.

Identified as having had ADHD his entire life.

Another guy was dyslexic, and he goes, Well, if I had only known, my life could have been so much easier had I known these things earlier on.

So, yeah, so I'm going, we've just got to widen the scope, I think, and celebrate neurodiversity.

I think, I think part of the concern for me is that stigma about.

About people being different and them not wanting to be different.

And I'm going, but we're all supposed to be different.

If we all look in the mirror, we don't all look the same.

So we were all designed to be different.

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