Podcasts kids Autism & Neurodiversity 54. Your Job is to Meet Your Child with Karen Mabie

54. Your Job is to Meet Your Child with Karen Mabie

Published: April 22, 2022, 11 a.m.

Parenting a neurodivergent young person into adulthood can be a messy and challenging process.

We appreciate Karen coming on our show and sharing her perspectives and insights as an educational consultant and mother to an autistic adult daughter.

She is passionate about helping young people, and her perspectives from her professional and personal experiences can help us better support our neurodivergent young people and avoid some of the common pitfalls.

Karen is someone who \u201ctells it like it is\u201d and knows what she is talking about. Some great gems of wisdom you won\u2019t want to miss from this episode.

What You'll Learn from this Episode:

  • The important gains in understanding and research about trauma in the last 20 years.
  • Why your job is to meet your child and what that means.
  • What every functioning adult does and what neurodivergents need to learn.
  • How to transition from being your kid\u2019s advocate to them being their own advocate as a young adult.
  • Why the work we do isn\u2019t about fixing them and what it is about.

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