Meryl Alper

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Full-Tilt Parenting: Strategies, Insights, and Connection for Parents Raising Neurodivergent Children · TPP 356: Supporting Healthy Digital Media Use for Neurodivergent Kids · 9 Jan 2024 podcast

Any parent who you talk to would always say of a neurodivergent kid that even if they had really great programs for their kid to do after school or over the summers, they had to do so much work to make that happen.

Or they had to put a lot of money into that to make that happen.

So thinking about just time spent, you know, we talk about screen time, time spent with media.

Time spent doing other things, that's not always so readily available for these kids and families.

Yeah, so I started off my professional life in the children's media industry.

And I say professional life, I mean back in college.

I worked on one of the first National Science Foundation grants to study digital media and kids.

It was it was a new thing then.

This is back in the early 2000s.

And had the real gift of starting off having an internship that first summer, second

summer in college in the education and research department at Sesame Workshop.

So you sort of I'm starting with the best and the brightest, and that really infused everything that I've done going forward.

thinking about how do we make the best possible media, the best possible choices around media for kids, knowing that they're going to be spending time with it.

So how do we make that a fulfilling and rich experience?

And not only that, but

In the spirit of Sesame, I think, also thinking about who gets to see themselves on screen, who's a part of the audience, really as inclusive as possible.

And so when I started my PhD, I knew that I wanted to do something research oriented and that to go further, that's what I was gonna need to do.

So after my time at at Sesame, I then also worked at Disney Channel on the more business side of things and

For Nickelodeon, also as a researcher on some of their preschool shows, that all of them had a real diversity focus.

I wanted to take that into my PhD.

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