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Thank you from the teachers for all the support of the students at Glen Arden Elementary in Arden, NC. The students were thrilled with the gifts from the ABC community.🎁

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Five Ways of Well-Being

- Connect, build relationships
- Be Active, move.
- Take Notice, savor the moment
- Give, share your gifts
- Keep Learning

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Neurowild is the artist name for Emily, a speech language pathologist and an Autistic person who has advice for parents and teachers. She is also a mom to autistic children. Her artwork is very helpful and her website has guides for IEPs and other school related topics.

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Ideas for reading aloud!📚

How to Make Read-Alouds Fun and Effective for All Ages Well-planned read-alouds can enhance critical thinking, comprehension, and engagement across disciplines—and age levels.

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What phrases do you tend to use?

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Positive messages for self-esteem can help any child feel loved. NeuroWild
is a speech pathologist, is neurodivergent and parent of neurodivergent kids. 😊

Radical acceptance is protective.

Our neurodivergent kids need to hear all this stuff from us because often the world tells them a different story.

And yes, all kids, any neurotype, need to hear these things. Of course they do. But the fact is that our neurodivergent kids receive far more negative messages than their neurotypical peers. Our mental health statistics are significantly worse, and overall our wellbeing is far below that of others. So yes, all kids. But for this post- the focus is on our nd kids.

We need to hear this stuff from our caregivers.
We need to hear that we’re ok, we’re good, we’re valuable.
We need to hear that there are people on our side.
We need to hear that our brain is a good one.
We need to be told that our strengths are big and worthwhile.
We need to hear that our communication style is good. It might be different but it’s good. We need to hear that difference is good.
We need to hear that our interests and passions are good.
We need to know that our neurodivergent traits are good.

We need to build up a mental bank of these positive reminders so that when people out there tell us awful, negative, ableist things, we have something better to fall back on. We need to hear these bright messages in our mind, and use them to counter those unpleasant messages when we are given them.

Our kids deserve it.
It’s important.

And fortunately, this is something that is 100% within our control to do.
We don’t need anyone’s permission to give our kids these messages.
It doesn’t cost anything.
It’s quick and it’s powerful.
If you’re not doing it already, you could start right now.

And know that you are not spoiling your kids by telling them this stuff.
You are not ‘giving them a big head’ or creating a superiority complex or anything like that. You are simply making sure that the picture they have of themselves is a nice one. And you need to- the world will often tell them the opposite.

Yes?

Em 🌻🌈✌️
AuDHD SLP

We’re excited for the Apraxia Walk on 9/29/24. 🌟

The 2024 Apraxia Kids Walk will be here soon!

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The Everymom ❤️

Happy back to school week!📗🤩

Dear teachers and staff, students and families - have a great school year! 🎒 ✏️ 🍎

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Helpful advice! MindShift

🧠 "Mindfulness is paying attention to the here and now with kindness and curiosity, and then choosing your behavior." - Amy Saltzman

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Great advice!

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