Is It ADD or Non Verbal Learning Disability
Linda welcomes guest Elizabeth Shoiry, a Montreal based Psychologist and Neuropsychologist for a discussion on ADHD versus Non Verbal Learning Disability.
Elizabeth provides expert evaluations that offer an in-depth analysis of skills and abilities linked to brain function.
Specifically, the assessments explain the underlying challenges, whether they are academic, behavioral, social, or emotional.
With Elizabeth's expertise in learning disabilities, nonverbal learning disability (NVLD), attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), and autism spectrum disorders (ASD), recognizing and understanding each individual’s unique strengths and challenges is of utmost importance
How to Help Your Child/Teen with Nonverbal Disorder
My guest is Linda Karanzalis, MS, author of Misnamed, Misdiagnosed, Misunderstood, a book about recognizing and coping with NVLD (Nonverbal Learning Disorder) from Childhood through Adulthood. In her book, Linda shares her own experience as a child, teen, and adult battling undiagnosed nonverbal learning disorder (NVLD) before professionals realized it even existed.
Linda is a former special educator and a board certified cognitive specialist. In 1997, she founded ADDvantages Learning Center, one of the first in the U.S. to meet the needs of the neurodivergent population. She is an ambassador for the NVLD Project, a national nonprofit organization dedicated to improving the lives of those with NVLD.
In this interview, Linda will share her NVLD insights and strategies to empower parents and professionals .
Parent Talk Episode:
The Right Parenting Tools Make All the Difference
Welcome: The Parent Talk Series is a fun e-learning way to educate & support parents with “strength based” attachment parenting methods that deliver loving, positive messages & tools.
The right parenting tools are vital, especially with children & teens with ADHD, LD, mild ASD & anxiety. It's important to understand your child's diagnosis, symptoms & behaviours plus use a positivity approach & toolbox of strategies that foster their success & your loving parent-child relationship.
Parent Talk Episode: Incompetence versus Non-Compliant Behaviour
Making the distinction between incompetence versus non-compliant behaviour is a very important tool for your parenting toolbox. Otherwise children will be punished & shamed for behaviour they have little control over. Utilize this tool to help you gain knowledge & confidence in how to handle day-to-day situations that may arise.
Our connection, as parents, is essential now more than ever for our children's social-emotional well-being.
Parent Talk Episode: Shifting to a Positivity Perspective
Everyday many of us take either a glass half full or a glass half empty perspective of life.
So shifting to a positivity perspective, enhances a child's self-esteem. It creates deeper parent-child relationships & embraces all they are & who they will become.
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Parent Talk Episode: The Way We Choose to See Things
What we choose to focus on & how we choose to respond can shift children from a negative to a positive state.
Understand that even in their most difficult moments, there is ALWAYS SOMETHING your child is doing RIGHT. It's our job to find it & comment on it.
Using the lens of positivity & validating the wonderful strengths we see kids display during any given moment, creates success for them from the inside out.