Ep 102: Stories are Emotional Learning for Complex Kids

In addition to being an advocate for neurodiversity and autism acceptance, Sally J. Pla is the award-winning author of The Someday Birds and Stanley Will Probably Be Fine (HarperCollins), and the picture book Benji, The Bad Day, And Me (Lee and Low). Her next middle-grade novel, The Fire, The Water, and Maudie McGinn (HarperCollins/QuillTree), is slated for Summer 2023.

She is also co-founder and editor of A Novel Mind, a web resource on mental health and neurodiversity in children’s lit. 

Top 12 Tips To Help Your Complex Kids

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Listen to this inspiring episode of Parenting With Impact episode with Sally J. Pla about her adult diagnosis of Autism and sensory processing and how she has turned it into storytelling to help complex kids feel represented and inspired to create and tell their own stories.

Here is what to expect on this week’s show:

• Sally’s diagnosis of sensory integrative processing disorder autism at age 50
• Stories provide a neutral way to enter a conversation about emotions and feelings
• The importance of giving children the opportunity to create or tell their own stories

Related Links:

• Travel Planning with Anxious, Inflexible, Neurodiverse Kids with Dawn Barclay
• Storytelling Helps Children with ADHD 
• Sharing Your Story 
• Does Your Child Get Anxious? Tell a Social Story!

Connect with Sally, and find her books:

• https://linktr.ee/SallyJPla

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