Melissa Neff
speaker
1,584 appearances
4 recordings
1 series
first heard Jun 2017
last heard Dec 2022
Melissa Neff’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
Trend
recordings per month · last 12 monthsNo recordings in the last 12 months.Older appearances are listed below; set an alert to hear about the next one.
Appearances
So there are people who are not neurotypical, wa you know, wandering around this earth doing amazing things who don't ever need an evaluation because they're not distressed by their symptoms or their symptoms aren't impacting their ability to do
their homework or get a job or communicate with other people.
You know, really when people come to me the most is when there's some kind of problem that needs to be fixed or solved.
And people usually come to me for answers.
And oftentimes I'll get referrals from folks who have been seeing this kiddo in therapy for like two, three years and they thought it was anxiety.
and they thought it was depression and they thought it was trauma.
And then they kind of come to me and say, this kid can't stop talking about dinosaurs.
I think something else is going on.
So that's kind of a long answer to your question, but there's so many reasons.
And I I will just add that one thing that I think is really also happens is that there are a lot of people who come because they know something is a little different about them and they really want to know why or what.
And those are probably my favorite folks to work with because they're super motivated and open to whatever I have to say.
That's a good question.
I I think that also varies.
What I would say, um, my experience is that um
What we know about at least IQ testing, which is an important part of testing differently wired kits, because even though that may not, you know, sort of look at social communication issues or restrictive behaviors, it does tell us a lot about a child's ability to switch from one task to another or sort of that cognitive flexibility executive functioning piece.
And it does tell us if there's a really giant split between their verbal abilities.
And a lot of times with autism, you'll have verbal precociousness.
And sometimes you'll have a real lack of visual spatial or abstract visual reasoning where kids can't kind of look at things and figure them out without language attached to them.
So my starting point is usually at the IQ test because it gives me all of that information in addition to how quickly does a child's brain move?
What is their processing speed like?
Showing 21–40 of 1,584 · page 2 of 80
← Previous
Next →