Hi! My name is Megan, and I am a neurodivergent parent of amazing 2 neurodivergent kids.
I have a Master’s Degree in Counseling and have worked as a professional coach, counselor, tutor, school consultant, group facilitator, and program manager and have been working with with the neurodiverse community for more than a decade.
I do not currently provide mental health therapy or any sort of clinical treatment. Individuals with clinically significant mental health symptoms should seek a licensed mental health therapist.
I am more than happy to speak or e-mail with anyone who has questions about neurodiversity. I am also happy to help provide direction towards appropriate resources.
Yes! I can send you information about how you can make you church class, library book club, homeschool co-op, art class, small private school, or even your sports team more accessible. And I will send it to you for free. If you are local, I would love to meet and chat with you about how you can best implement the materials or provide a free training for your group. If you aren’t local, I am available by e-mail and happy to answer questions!
In short, no.
There is nothing to be fixed. Although the traits associated with being neurodivergent can sometimes be incongruent with the expectations in a person’s world, this is not because they are inherently broken. They simply think differently, and our goal is to help align their abilities with the demands of their environments by adjusting both of those in a gentle way and only with the willing cooperation of the neurodivergent individual that we are working with.
There is currently no research supporting a quick fix in the area of executive function or learning issues. The brain is indeed highly neuroplastic and and can absolutely change, but research shows that where these programs often fail is that the skills the children are practicing during sessions are rarely generalized to other settings or tasks. For example, if a child practices paying attention on a computer game by pushing enter every time an X goes by the screen, they will get better at spotting X’s on the screen, but they will probably not develop a better attention span, in general. So our focus is on metacognition, supporting the individual in learning how they think so that they can self-regulate and, ultimately, self-advocate.