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Inclusive of autistic and other neurodivergent voices, the DIVERG. podcast exists to bridge the gap between specialized knowledge and everyday parenting. We bring together forward-thinking experts who champion neuroaffirming and developmentally-based approaches to therapy, education, and life, while addressing the systemic challenges that families and individuals face in environments not designed for diverse minds. Insight by insight, we are building community and making space for all kinds of minds.
The first episode drops, January 3, 2025.
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Embracing Neuroaffirming Therapies
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When I stepped outside of the existing system, the one that was readily available to me, there were a lot of people speaking to not just the kindness of neuroaffirming and developmentally based therapies, but the success of them and the logic of them.
Introduction to Diverge Podcast
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Welcome to the diverge podcast, inclusive of autistic and other neuro divergent voices. We exist to bridge the gap between specialized knowledge and everyday parenting.
Critique of Deficit-Based Education
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Do you think about special ed? It's a deficit based model. Normal is whatever normal is. They are trying to bring kids up to that norm.
Uniting Neuroaffirming Experts
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We are on a mission to bring together the most forward-thinking experts who are deep in the trenches, championing, neuroaffirming, and developmentally-based approaches to therapy, to education, and life.
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Stopping to slow things down. I mean, honestly, we could just drop the mic right there.
Understanding Neurodiverse Minds
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Those interventions and supports take me into overwhelm and shut down, and ah then like they're not actually helpful.
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building immunity and making space for all kinds of minds. You're joining with what's already there. You're not trying to recreate and your child gets the sense of somebody else understands me. And there's nothing better in the world than having someone else understand you