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Parenting Neurodivergent Teens and Young Adults

Notes from Dr. Ed Callahan on raising a neurodivergent 14-to-25-year-old toward a successful, independent adulthood — with less conflict, distress, and resistance.

Most of what you will read here started in a room full of parents. Twice a week I sit with families working through exactly what you are working through, and these posts are what comes out of those conversations.

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There is a particular phone call that parents of neurodivergent teens learn to dread. You call the school about something routine, and somewhere in the conversation you discover that the coursework your child assured you was finished has not been touched in three weeks.

The floor drops out. And und...

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