The Pivot for Parents and Educators Looking at Autism and ADHD Through a Different Lens

How Understanding the Neurodivergent Mind Can Change Our Thoughts and Feelings about a Diagnosis

By: Kim Gallo

Narrated by: Adrian Newcastle

Length: 4 hrs and 11 mins

Publisher's summary

Are you the parent of a child with Autism or ADHD?

Are you an educator looking to gain a new perspective on neurodivergence?

This book can help!

Terms like neurotypical and neurodivergence are being used more frequently than before; what do they mean?

And what are the implications of an ADHD or autism diagnosis?

Seeking clear-cut answers to all your questions takes a lot of work. It can be easy to feel overwhelmed and even need clarification as you try to sort through all available information.

If you are ready to navigate the challenging yet rewarding journey of parenting or educating a child with a diagnosis, this book is for you.

Combining years of professional and personal experience with general best practices, author Kim Gallo wrote this book as a comprehensive guide to help you shift your thinking.

By breaking down complex ideas and terminology, she takes the mystery and confusion out of neurodivergence. She also stresses the importance of pivoting your thinking patterns to create a healthier, positive environment.

Inside The Pivot for Parents and Educators of Autism & ADHD you will discover:

• How a neurotypical brain differs from a neurodivergent brain
• The different types of neurodivergence
• Teaching a child self-regulation
• Sensory input and processing
• Unnecessary stressors
• The new language of autism & ADHD
• The importance of mindset
• How to pivot from a stuck mindset to a growth mindset.
• And many other invaluable tools.

Instead of being worried or disappointed about your child’s diagnosis, you can reframe your thoughts and find hope and excitement for the future.

Acquiring new information about ADHD and autism will help you empower your children with neurodivergent brains to be more confident and peaceful adults. It will also help you be a more content and confident educator.

Pick up a copy of The Pivot for Parents and Educators, change your mindset, and reduce stress.

©2023 Kim Gallo (P)2023 Kim Gallo

Very Informative

This is a must-have for the autism community! Adults with autism and parents of autistic children will benefit from listening to this audiobook. As a parent of an autistic son, I found tools in this book to help me better understand my son and help him adjust correctly to adulthood.

Upping my parental understanding

As a parent of a diagnosed child, I am always searching for resources that can increase my parental skills via a deeper understanding of behavior and the neurological elements involved. Gallo presents a comprehensive guide that I would recommended for any parent on the same path. This book helped me develop a positivity for the future because I am equipped with a new-found powerful understanding. Thank you to the author for this excellent work.

Helpful for better understanding my son

I really appreciate the author's positive perspective. My son is eight and has autism. A lot of material I've read about autism gives me information but also leaves me feeling sad about this problem that my son has. This book didn't do that. This book looks at these children with a positive perspective and acknowledges their positive attributes and I think that is incredibly valuable. Thanks, Kim Gallo.

Lots of positive information

The main thing I see about this book is the care and concern from the author in sharing their extensive experience and knowledge about this subject. They obviously understand that proper handling can bring about benefits for the children.

Parents and Teachers! Must Read!

So grateful for such an up to date, down to earth, encouraging book for us all to do better accepting each other’s differences!

Essential listening

Wonderful audiobook that should be essential listening for all parents, caregivers, and educators of neurodivergent individuals. It’s overdue time to better understand neurodivergent and neurotypical brains, behaviors, and how we can support them to create a healthy and safe environment

Super interesting listen!

Very insightful! This audiobook gives an in-depth explanation of what exactly being neurodivergent means, and gives you pretty good advice on different ways to interact with others who might process things in a different way than you might be used to. Helps break through the stereotypes to get down to the truth to better help understand things that neurotypicals often have a much harder time comprehending and accommodating.

A Parent’s must read!

Being an Occupational therapist working with children with Autism and a mother of a child with ADHD, I have to say that you never sto learning from this two diagnosis. I try
to keep up with new strategies and new treatment options for both. This book help me understand a new language on autism and different ways children can use sensory stimulation and self regulation in a new and improved way of doing it than before. highly recommend it.

Expansive Perspective

Found this to be a foundational resource for reframing cultural definitions and expectations about ADHD. The author synthesizes different disciplinary commentaries on the topic, and offers a more empowering perspective that frames ADHD as a unique set of traits that can be learned from, and platformed instead of being overrated and suppressed. The narrator was easy to understand and follow, content was reassuring and inspirational :)

So very helpful!

If your child happens to be Neurodiverse or Neuroatypical, you'll understand these terms.. As a grandmother to a grandson who is ADHD, this information clearly explained the main points of what I had previously misunderstood. I'm happy to discover my grandson is not "Special Needs", he simply has a different way of looking at the world. Thanks for the detailed insight!