TPP 121: A Conversation with Elisheva Schwartz of The Dyslexia Quest
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Full-Tilt Parenting: Strategies, Insights, and Connection for Parents Raising Neurodivergent Children
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What is Elisheva Schwartz’s personal “why” for creating The Dyslexia Quest?
A lot of these children, these younger children that are growing up in this super advocate for dyslexia, dyslexia is a gift generation, sometimes feel pressure that they need to demonstrate how creative they are. They need to demonstrate how entrepreneurial they are. They need to demonstrate how design savvy they are to kind of prove that they're part of the club. So basically what a lot of parents are doing is saying, because their children are not doing well in the traditional school system they're often feeling nervous and so they put a whole nother box they say you don't need to fit into this box but fit into that box
Welcome to the Tilt Parenting Podcast, a podcast featuring interviews and conversations aimed at inspiring, informing, and supporting parents raising differently wired kids. I'm your host, Debbie Reber, and this week I'm talking with Elisheva Schwartz, a dyslexia researcher, mother, wife, intelligence redefiner, and host of the Dyslexia Quest podcast. Elisheva is on a mission to decode the dyslexic mind and empower the dyslexic community to fully understands both the strengths and the difficulties of the processing style. If you have a child with learning differences like dyslexia, this is a must listen to episode. Elisheva gets personal and shares her story of her own childhood of struggling to reconcile her passion for learning with repeatedly being told she was learning disabled.
Elisheva has channeled the pain of her own childhood journey to helping families raising kids with learning differences help their kids feel empowered and confident about who they are, while also knowing how to advocate for them in school. I hope you enjoy our conversation. And before I get to the episode, if you've heard some buzz about my book, Differently Wired yet, but you haven't checked it out, I invite you to download the first chapter and table of contents at tiltparenting.com book. And if you have read it already and liked what you read, I would be grateful if you would consider leaving a review on Amazon and or Goodreads. More reviews means more visibility for the book. And I want to make sure that people who would benefit from its message can easily find it.
Lastly, if you're reading Differently Wired as a group online and you would like me to join you for a Facebook Live or Facebook chat, just send me a message via the Tilt Parenting Facebook page or email me at debbie at tiltparenting.com and we'll see what we can do. And if you're looking to read it as a group for an in-person book club, I would love to find a way to even just Skype into your group. So go to tiltparenting.com slash book and click on the learn more button where it says, is your book club reading differently wired? And you can follow the steps there to connect with me about your book club. Thank you so much. And now here is my conversation with Elisheva.
Hello, Ellie Sheva. Welcome to the podcast. Thanks, Debbie. I'm excited to be here. It's a real treat to not be in the driver's seat today and be interviewed. So I'm excited to do this.
Well, you just sit back and relax in the passenger seat. And yeah, we'll just have a nice conversation. I haven't done a lot of episodes specifically around dyslexia. And so I'm really excited to learn more about your work and to share the resources that you have with our listeners. I think you're doing some really cool work. So As a way to get our conversation started, could you just introduce yourself? I always ask people what their personal why is. And just tell us a little bit about who you are in the world.
Sure. So my name is Elisheva Schwartz, and I am a wife and a mom of two little kids. And I have a dyslexia consultancy, which basically means that I have a podcast called The Dyslexia Quest. where it's a weekly show where we talk about a whole bunch of different issues having to do specifically with dyslexia and the strengths of dyslexia, but also a bunch of other topics that are interesting to either dyslexics or parents that are raising children that don't really fit in the traditional school model and how to support them, whether that has to do with the
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Chapters
8 chapters
1
What is Elisheva Schwartz’s personal “why” for creating The Dyslexia Quest?
0:00–5:17
2
How did Elisheva’s childhood experiences shape her view of dyslexia and learning differences?
5:17–9:41
3
What are the biggest roadblocks dyslexic children face in traditional schools today?
9:41–13:12
4
How can parents re‑frame dyslexia as a strengths‑based lens for their kids?
13:12–18:13
5
What practical strategies help parents advocate for school support and accommodations?
18:13–23:25
6
Which cognitive strengths are most common among dyslexic learners and why?
23:25–29:00
7
How should parents talk to their children about learning differences to boost confidence?
29:00–33:53
8
Where can listeners find Elisheva’s resources, upcoming webinars, and the Dyslexia Quest podcast?
33:53–40:24
Speakers
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