Meryl Alper
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first heard Jan 2024
last heard Jan 2024
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But so I would think about kids who are maybe in this kind of three to eight range, thinking about screens and and particular again like TV as this space.
I would take advantage of the fact that there are going to be coming up.
More shows, at least I know personally based on my current work with PBS kids, more shows that are gonna be showing an array of neurodivergent young people.
And that that is a real resource.
I would say that it's also a resource for parents of typically develop, you know, neurotypical kids that for you to also develop empathy and understanding.
But those I think are gonna be real potential opportunities for having some of these more complex conversations that are harder.
A lot of these kids, I think, need very concrete examples as the starting off point at least for having these kind of conversations.
So I would say to be on the lookout for.
Those.
Not that that happened all the time with them.
Because, for example, Sesame Street did introduce its Julia, its autistic Muppet.
So I think there's a jumping off point for there.
for sort of this then like age of nascent gamers or interest in sort of YouTube around some of this other s you know, more mature things, I think it's a really important time.
Where
Media literacy is a term gets thrown around as meaning a lot of things and hard to pin down.
But I would really th think about and asking in your kids' school to what extent that's happening and to what extent that is that like education around that is happening, and to what extent that education is
Catered or specific to your own child's neurodivergence.
This happens to researchers all the time.
I feel like I wrote a fantastic grant application to study media literary literacy education for neurodivergent kids, didn't get the grant funded.
Still think it's very worth understanding because for some of these kids, there's some research that initial research that shows some neurodivergent kids might be more risk-averse, actually, when it comes to
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