Parenting Neurodivergent Children Part 1: Understanding Behavior
This webinar will address the first step to support your child: gaining awareness of the root causes of your child’s challenging behaviors and explore what that behavior is communicating. With this awareness, parents can identify appropriate and loving interventions that help boost children's self-esteem and help them feel seen and understood.
This webinar is part 1 of a 2-part series for parents of neurodivergent kids.
Part 1: Understand their children's behavior more clearly
Part 2: Identify supportive and meaningful solutions to help their child thrive
For parents of kids whose brains work somewhat differently than their “neurotypical” peers, managing their distracted behaviors can be overwhelming. The key to managing the challenging behaviors of kids with diagnoses like ADHD, autism, anxiety and other learning and behavioral differences is understanding that behavior is communication.
The challenge is to understand the difference between when they are actively choosing their behaviors (when they won’t do something) and when their brain differences guide their behavior (when they can’t do something).
This webinar will address the first step to support your child: gaining awareness of the root causes of your child’s challenging behaviors and explore what that behavior is communicating. With this awareness, parents can identify appropriate and loving interventions that help boost children's self-esteem and help them feel seen and understood.
You will learn:
- The possible motivations fueling your child’s behaviors
- Strategies for identifying what your child is trying to communicate via their behavior
- How to observe and interpret the “ABCs” of behavior (Antecedent/Behavior/Consequence)
Registration includes access to the live webinar, video/audio recordings, a PDF of the slide deck and links to resources.
Your Instructor
Jen Dryer is a PEP parent educator specializing in helping parents of neurodivergent children, including children with learning, behavioral and/or developmental challenges. She is also an educational consultant and advocate who works with parents, teachers, and school administrators.
A graduate of Brown University (BA) and Columbia University’s Teachers College (MA), Jen is a native New Yorker who moved to DC in January 2009. Prior to her work as a PEP parent educator, advocate and educational consultant, Jen was an educator in public, charter, and private schools. She was also a Literacy Coach/Staff Developer.
Jen is the mother of two sweet, loving, and energetic boys, the younger of whom is autistic and ADHD. Early intervention and strong parent advocacy dramatically shifted the trajectory of her son’s life. Her knowledge, experience and practical strategies have helped hundreds of parents support their child’s growth and development while meeting the needs of daily family life.
"My husband and I really enjoyed the webinar. we have some practical strategies that we can start to implement right away."
--Participant, PEP Online
"It was a hard topic and I felt like she explained the issues well in a non-judgmental way. Thank you!"
--Participant, PEP Online