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

First of all, let me sort of get to how I then approach doing that research.

I am somebody who has training in a in a bunch of different methodologies, be it surveys or like focus group with parents or sort of designing technologies with and for kids.

But I, as a tool, think that there's a real value in and surveying parents too, but spending time in family spaces, especially for this population, when

We're it's not just the media, the device, or the content on the device.

But the physical space that kids choose to spend time in or that or that families have curated or crafted around their children.

It's just as important, I think, to me, as the device and as the ritual and the space around it.

So ethnography for me was the mode of choice.

So over the course of we're talking about 2013 is when the data from my dissertation that wasn't included in the dissertation and the my first book starts.

So about 2013 through right on the cusp of the pandemic.

So 20 spring of 2020 and a little bit.

Which is the same thing.

At in the conclusion of the book, where I think like around the time of when the book came out, it's like, oh, the you know, the pandemic is changing everything.

And I think it has reoriented things, but then some things are back to how they were, and we we're living in this time where it's both and.

Yeah.

So from about seven versus seven years, going into people's houses and interviewing parents there, observing kids.

Doing the things that they like to do with media 'cause I and I don't want to put observed kids in a position where they are, yes, having a meltdown or dysregulated.

I wanna see the things you like to do or the things you regularly do at the times of day that you regularly do them.

I don't wanna disrupt

your routine, because for some families that's really important to not veer from, but also to the extent that I could interview the kids themselves as much as possible.

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