Nicole Tetreault
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362 appearances
2 recordings
1 series
first heard May 2020
last heard Jun 2021
Nicole Tetreault’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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but a place of information and redirection rather than a place of challenge and pain.
Close to it.
Close to it.
Although it seems like we've known
Yeah.
So my background is training in neuroscience.
And in particular, I studied in grad school neurodevelopment and neurodegenerative disorders, specifically studying autism.
And after I left grad school, I really kind of found this
place where I wanted to translate science and make neuroscience really useful for people in their everyday life.
And in that process, what I found out was my son was in about third grade and he was identified gifted.
And all of a sudden, the world of gifted and twice exceptionality really came into focus.
in my life.
And I recentered my work really to understand what it is to be neurodiverse, what it is to be twice exceptional and kind of understand it from a brain and body perspective to give us kind of more accurate and positive language around really being able to advocate for it.
Well, my professional work really, I feel, centers on trying to really understand...
a brain and body living and being a neurodiverse person, all the way from kind of understanding how a nervous system can be different, allowing for different emotionality, and really focusing on the asynchrony that we see in this population, you know, as a whole,
And really trying to understand the brain science, the physiology behind why we see these asynchronies and to really open up through interviews and storytelling of people of their experiences and weaving the science through to kind of lend space for a greater understanding of
Yeah, well, so I think that there's, you know, a couple things to think about.
If you have a differently wired kid, that really tends to be self directed, internal, very introspective, and kind of more of an introvert.
This experience, you know, you know, when I was talking to a couple people the other day, they said, you know, my kids introverted.
So it is
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