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

I mean, you're thinking about special adaptive software, switches, hardware for how you might manipulate a computer.

But then also here again were these mobile devices that

It wasn't really clear and also there was a lot of tension around are these devices that are either like for school or for assistive purposes?

Or are they for fun?

And it turns out they're really for both, but people trying to really spend a lot of time separating those out.

I'd focused for my dissertation on non-speaking kids with a range of developmental disabilities.

So some of those were

kids with Down syndrome, some with kids with Angelman's syndrome, but also a lot of those kids were kids on on the autism spectrum.

So for that work, I was very interested in that particular kind of use and really the claims about here, this technology is so liberating, it gives people voices.

And my work I found actually it it really depends because it's technology and that comes with a whole host of other, you know, strings attached to it.

But I was really motivated, I think, by the fact that here's all this all these other things that the same technology can do.

But nobody's looked at that either.

You know, they're using iPads, and I've looked at this one specific purpose, but not all these other ones.

And when I went to go look at the research.

It seemed to me that autistic and I should say also really it's neurodivergent kids more broadly because there's also such an overlap between kids who maybe they get diagnosed with one thing.

Patricia probably know talked about this, they had one diagnosis and another, turns out they have both.

And that changes everything in terms of kind of the supports.

But I realized that, you know, neurodivergent children's uses of media and technology hadn't been given the same kinds of treatment.

as typically developing kids in my field's really rich tradition of field of communication.

I'm a kind of social scientist interested in, you know, what kids are again kind of getting out of media and how it can be made better.

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