TPP 127: Behind the Scenes of TECA—Twice Exceptional Children's Advocacy
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Full-Tilt Parenting: Strategies, Insights, and Connection for Parents Raising Neurodivergent Children
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What is TECA and why is it important for parents of twice‑exceptional children?
Two E kids are very, very complex. It's a concept and it's a hard concept to understand and explain and there's a lot of frustration, there's a lot of self-doubt. So it's really about this this acceptance and being and allowing yourself to be vulnerable and say, Maybe I don't have all the answers but I love my child and we're out there and we're together and we're doing the best that we can.
Welcome to Tilt Parenting, a podcast featuring interviews and conversations aimed at inspiring, informing, and supporting parents raising differently wired kids. I'm your host, Debbie Rieber. There are many aspects to running Tilt and doing this podcast that I love, and one of them is introducing the Tilt community to helpful resources that have the potential to improve the quality of their families' lives. Today I am happy to be Dedicating this episode to one such resource: an organization called the Twice Exceptional Children's Advocacy, better known as TICA. Teka's mission is to help parents understand what twice exceptionality is and help them identify whether their children are TUE. They assist parents in finding and advocating for the education and resources their children require and provide a strong, vibrant, and accepting community for 2e children and their families.
Today I get two guests for the price of one. So I have both Melissa Sornick, a licensed clinician who works with children and families, and who's also a co-founder and the president of Tika, and I also have Marathea Contarella. Tika's executive director. And as you'll hear from the episode, the mission of Tika is very personal for both these women, and they're going to share their stories as well as give us insights into the types of support Tika offers for parents with 2e kids. And before I get to that conversation, in the past few months, the audience for this podcast has grown substantially. So I wanted to share with you one of the free resources I offer on Tilt Parenting. In case you're new to Tilt or you haven't had a chance to poke around on the website.
So far, nearly 1,500 parents have participated in the Differently Wired 7-Day Challenge. This is a virtual challenge whereby every day for 7 days, you'll get a short one to three-minute video delivered to your inbox featuring a practical shift you can make in your world to help you have a more positive. And optimistic experience in parenting your unique kiddo. You'll also be invited to join a private Facebook group with other parents who've participated in or are currently going through the challenge. And I've heard from parents all over the world that this challenge has made an immediate difference in their day-to-day life, which is fantastic because that's exactly why I created it. I personally have some pretty disruptive challenges.
transitions happening in my world at the moment and I am leaning into those strategies more than ever and honestly they have been so helpful. I would love for you to join in. It won't add more to your plate, but rather give you some helpful food for thought as you go about your daily life. To get started, just sign up at tiltparenting.com slash sevenday and you will immediately get the first video. Lastly, if you get value out of this podcast, please consider supporting it by making a small monthly contribution to help me cover the costs of production. There's an easy way to do this too. There's an online platform called Patreon. So I have a Patreon campaign for Tilt Parenting. It is funded by listeners just like you, and that campaign is helping me pay my editor, Donna.
Donna takes the These recorded conversations, my intros and outros, she cleans them up, edits them, tags them for iTunes, uploads them onto my SoundCloud account. It literally saves me hours of time each week, and it is allowing me to focus on all the other pieces of keeping Tilt going and supporting this community. So if you want to support the work of this podcast and the work of Tilt Parenting, just go to patreon.com slash tiltparenting and patreon is spelled p-a-t-r-e-o-n.
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