TPP 074a: "Child Decoded"—A New "Manual" for Parents Raising Differently Wired Kids
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Full-Tilt Parenting: Strategies, Insights, and Connection for Parents Raising Neurodivergent Children
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What is the focus of the Till Parenting Podcast episode and who is the guest?
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Hey there, it's Debbie and welcome to Playback Friday. Most Fridays I re-release one of my favorite conversations from the archive. So unless you're a longtime listener of the show, there's a good chance you haven't heard this one yet. And even if you have, you just might get something completely different from it listening to it this time around.
But that's what the book really strives for is looking under the hood. Don't just go to the top and say, this child has got a temper out of control. So we're gonna try this med. Oh, and now we have to improve attention. Now we have to do this med. And then and then we have three or four meds stacked up and it's not really getting this child up to a functional level. We have to go look someplace else.
Welcome to the Till Parenting Podcast, a podcast featuring interviews and conversations aimed at inspiring, informing, and supporting parents raising differently wired kids. I'm your host, Debbie Rieber, and today I'm talking with Robin McAvoy, one of the co-authors of the new book, Child Decoded, Unlocking Complex Issues in Your Child's Learning, Behavior, or Attention. I'm really excited to bring this conversation to you all and give you an inside look at this book, as it's a truly a unique and important addition to what currently exists in terms of books to help parents like us meet our exceptional kids' needs. Robin, a developmental neuropsychologist and one of the three authors of the book, explains that they wrote Child Decoded to be that owner's manual we all wish we had for our differently wired child.
And it really is a new kind of book because, as you'll hear in our conversation, it provides parents with a broader understanding of the issues that may be affecting their children, whether there's a diagnosis or not, as well as concise information on who can help and how. It's truly a comprehensive, in my opinion, game-changing book for parents like us who aren't sure where to start or where to focus our efforts, especially for those of us whose kids have more than one diagnosis and we're not sure what is affecting what. Robin breaks it all down for us in our conversation. And before I get to the episode, did you know that some of the production costs for the podcast are being offset by generous donations from listeners?
How does Dr. Robyn McEvoy describe her background and why she became a developmental neuropsychologist?
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But before we get into that, I always like to ask guests to tell us a little bit about who they are. You know, kind of I love knowing people's personal whys for the work that they're doing, and I'd love to just hear more about your story.
Well, my name is Robin McAvoy and my long Title is Developmental Neuropsychologist, which means I study the development of children, particularly the development of brain and thinking skills and different types of thinking skills and language and how it all integrates together. I don't know why, but I've been interested in the field since I was twelve.
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Chapters
5 chapters
1
What is the focus of the Till Parenting Podcast episode and who is the guest?
0:00–2:42
2
How does Dr. Robyn McEvoy describe her background and why she became a developmental neuropsychologist?
2:42–7:25
3
Why was the book *Child Decoded* created and what problem does it aim to solve for parents?
7:25–13:39
4
How does the book’s checklist help parents identify the most relevant issues for their child?
13:39–25:22
5
What is the holistic, “under‑the‑hood” approach the authors recommend for complex neuro‑diverse needs?
25:22–33:38
Speakers
1 identifiedMore from Full-Tilt Parenting: Strategies, Insights, and Connection for Parents Raising Neurodivergent Children
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