Minds of All Kinds Podcast
Join us for Minds of All Kinds, a podcast celebrating the diverse ways people think, learn, and experience the world.
Launching during Neurodiversity Week, this series explores the importance of understanding and embracing neurodiversity. With insights from experts, educators, and real stories from neurodivergent individuals, we’ll break down myths, share practical tips, and dive into empowering conversations that foster inclusion.
Whether you're a parent, teacher, student, or simply curious, Minds of All Kinds podcast offers valuable knowledge to support and celebrate the unique strengths of all minds. Tune in and join the movement toward true acceptance and understanding!
This podcast was created with the support of NotebookLM.com
Episodes
35 episodes
Ep.34 Adaption - Harnessing the benefit of Neurodiversity
This episode calls for a shift in perspective - adapting societal structures to be more inclusive instead of forcing neurodivergent individuals to conform to one single set of standards. Key strategies discussed include creating inc...
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Ep.33 Understanding Evaluations: Empowering Children's Unique Brains
This episode emphasizes the importance of framing evaluations positively for children, particularly those who are gifted or twice-exceptional, to reduce anxiety and foster self-understanding. It suggests explaining evaluations as a way to under...
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Ep.32 Parent Advocacy in Education - A Comprehensive Guide
This episode underscores the pivotal role of parent advocacy in a child's education, especially for neurodivergent learners. It highlights the unique insights parents possess regarding their child's strengths and needs, advocating for effective...
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Ep.31 Communication, Connection, and Support for Children
This episode from Neurodiversity Week 2025 emphasizes the critical role of communication in supporting neurodivergent children's emotional well-being and development. It highlights common communication challenges faced by these children, such a...
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Ep.30 Energy Regulation in Neurodivergent Students: A Practical Guide
This episode on "Understanding Energy Regulation in Neurodivergent Students" explores how neurodivergent individuals often experience dramatic energy fluctuations, impacting their ability to focus and function. It discusses the scie...
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Ep.29 Neurodiversity: The Power of the Big Picture
This episode focuses on the importance of having a big picture for neurodivergent students, highlighting how understanding the context and relevance of information can significantly improve their learning experience. It explores the science beh...
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Ep.28 Supporting Neurodivergent Students: Easing Transitions at Home and School
This episode focuses on the challenges neurodivergent students face during transitions between activities. It highlights the science behind these difficulties, linking them to executive dysfunction, sensory processing, and dopamine regulation.&...
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Ep.27 Routines: Supporting Neurodivergent Students' Success
This episode explores the crucial role of routines in supporting neurodivergent students. Consistent structures are presented as essential tools for reducing anxiety, enhancing self-regulation, and fostering independence. Strategies for creatin...
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Ep.26 Understanding Neurodivergent Learners: A Whole-Student Approach
This episode emphasizes understanding and supporting neurodivergent learners by recognizing their unique strengths and needs. It encourages educators to observe students, listen actively, and consider personality, passions, and anxieties in the...
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Ep.25 Growth Mindset: Unlocking Potential in Every Student
This episode focuses on cultivating a growth mindset in all students, including neurodivergent learners. It contrasts a growth mindset, which embraces challenges, with a fixed mindset, which avoids them. The episode highlights...
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Ep.24 Sleep and Brain Health: The Essential Link
This episode highlights the critical link between sleep and optimal brain function, including memory consolidation and emotional regulation. It explains how sleep allows the brain to detoxify, solve problems, and execute tasks efficiently. The ...
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Ep.23 Understanding and Supporting Neurodivergent Children and Their Families
This episode focuses on understanding and supporting parents of neurodivergent children. It challenges common myths surrounding neurodivergence, such as ADHD being an excuse for bad parenting or that children will simply outgrow it.
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Ep.22 The Power of Inclusion: More Than Just a Space
This episode, "The Power of Inclusion: More Than Just a Space," advocates for a shift in perspective regarding neurodiversity. It argues against simply integrating neurodivergent individuals into existing structures, instead promoting the celeb...
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Ep.21 Neurodiversity: Fluctuating Capacity and Redefining Consistency
This episode explores the concept of fluctuating capacity in neurodivergent individuals, challenging the traditional expectation of consistent performance. The episode highlights how sensory input, emotional energy, and cognitive lo...
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Ep.20 The Power of Quiet Spaces: Recharging for Self-Regulation
This episode highlights the critical role of quiet spaces in promoting self-regulation, particularly for neurodivergent individuals who often experience heightened sensory and cognitive loads. It explores the science behind how low-stimul...
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Ep.19 Stimming and Movement: The Science of Self-Regulation
This episode focuses on stimming and movement as crucial self-regulation tools for neurodivergent individuals. It highlights how stimming, involving repetitive actions, aids in focus, anxiety reduction, and emotional expression. The...
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Ep.18 Sensory Load and Inclusive Learning: A Neurodiversity Perspective
This episode emphasizes the importance of sensory load and regulation in creating inclusive education for neurodivergent students. Traditional classroom norms can unintentionally create barriers by not accommodating varied sensory needs. Priori...
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Ep.17 Neurodiversity: From Coping to Thriving
This episode "Beyond Coping: Helping Neurodivergent Minds Thrive" advocates for a shift in perspective, moving from simply helping neurodivergent individuals cope with existing systems to creating environments where they can flourish. It emphas...
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Ep.16 Understanding and Navigating Anxiety: Strengths, Strategies, and Support
This episode aims to reframe anxiety as a manageable neurological state, not a personal failing. The podcast highlights the biological and neurological aspects of anxiety, including hyperactivity in the amygdala and neurotransmitter imbalances....
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Ep.15 Understanding & Supporting Slow Processing Speed
This episode explains slow processing speed, defining it as the time it takes to take in and respond to information, and emphasizing that it is unrelated to intelligence. The podcast explores the challenges that individuals with slo...
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Ep.14 Tourette Syndrome: Strengths, Understanding, and Neurodiversity
This episode focuses on Tourette Syndrome (TS), clarifying that it's a neurological condition characterized by varied motor and vocal tics stemming from differences in brain function. It highlights strengths associated with TS, like creativity,...
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Ep.13 Understanding Pathological Demand Avoidance: Autonomy, Strengths, and Support
This episode addresses Pathological Demand Avoidance (PDA), a profile of autism characterized by a high need for autonomy and anxiety related to demands. It highlights that PDA is not defiance, but an anxiety-driven response. The po...
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Ep.12 Understanding Sensory Processing Differences
This episode explains sensory processing and how differences in sensory processing can impact daily life. It describes how some individuals may be hypersensitive or hyposensitive to sensory input, leading to challenges in school, social sit...
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Ep.11 Nonverbal Learning Challenges: Understanding and Supporting Unique Minds
This episode highlights Nonverbal Learning Challenges (NVLD) as a neurodivergent cognitive profile characterized by strong verbal skills alongside difficulties in visual-spatial reasoning, social interpretation, and motor coordination. It empha...
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Ep.10 Dyspraxia: Understanding Strengths and Supporting Neurodiversity
This episode highlights dyspraxia, a neurological condition affecting movement and coordination, often overlooked despite its impact. It explores the science behind dyspraxia, detailing how it impacts the cerebellum, sensory-motor integration, ...
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