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Friday's training has happened. The recording hasn't gone anywhere.Dr. Liz Angoff's 'Explaining a Diagnosis to Kids in a...
09/14/2026

Friday's training has happened. The recording hasn't gone anywhere.

Dr. Liz Angoff's 'Explaining a Diagnosis to Kids in a Neurodiversity Affirming Way' is available as a recorded version with self-study CEs: 1.5 hours, same $67, APA sponsored and NBCC approved (ACEP #7510).

One question from the episode that tells you whether an evaluator already works this way — ask them how they involve your child in the process. If the answer is only that the child has a nice time and gets prizes, that isn't it.

👉 https://neurodiversityuniversity.thrivecart.com/explaining-diagnosis-sept-2026/

09/13/2026

The fix wasn't a better explanation. It was bringing him along the whole way, so that by the time there was a name for it, the name was describing something he had already told her about himself.

Liz taught the full method in a live CE training today. The recording and self-study CEs are still available: https://neurodiversityuniversity.thrivecart.com/explaining-diagnosis-sept-2026/

Full episode 331 🎧https://neurodiversitypodcast.com/home/2026/9/9/episode-331-understanding-yourself-a-process-to-finding-the-person-inside-reprise

09/11/2026

Dr. Liz Angoff had to explain dyslexia to a kid she was working with. She had a gentle metaphor ready, but the boy crumbled, started crying, and ran out of the room.

What she learned that he had gone through the whole assessment thinking they were playing games. And he already had a story about why things were hard. It went: I'm stupid, there's something broken in my brain, there's something wrong with me.

No metaphor lands on top of that. It just confirms it. Watch part 2 for more 😉

Liz taught the full method in a live CE training today. The recording and self-study CEs are still available: https://neurodiversityuniversity.thrivecart.com/explaining-diagnosis-sept-2026/

Full episode 331 👉 https://neurodiversitypodcast.com/home/2026/9/9/episode-331-understanding-yourself-a-process-to-finding-the-person-inside-reprise

Dr. Liz Angoff's metaphor is a road map, and it does something most explanations don't: it gives the child a way to desc...
09/10/2026

Dr. Liz Angoff's metaphor is a road map, and it does something most explanations don't: it gives the child a way to describe their own experience before anyone hands them a label. Highways are the roads the messages travel on, what you're good at, what you get excited about. Construction projects are what's being built. Every kid has both. So does every adult.

What makes it work isn't the metaphor. It's that once a child has named their own highways and their own construction projects, you can define the diagnosis in their words instead of yours. 'For you, being dyslexic means you make big-picture connections and have an amazing imagination, and it can be hard to get ideas into words on paper.'

Liz teaches the four-step framework live this Friday, 11 Sept, 2:00-3:30 pm ET. 1.5 CE hours. APA sponsored, NBCC approved #7510. $60, recording included.

CE Training link: https://neurodiversityuniversity.thrivecart.com/explaining-diagnosis-sept-2026/
Full episode link: https://neurodiversitypodcast.com/home/2026/9/9/episode-331-understanding-yourself-a-process-to-finding-the-person-inside-reprise

09/10/2026

A kid will almost never describe it the way the report does. You say attention. They say boring. And the instinct is to correct them, because the clinical word is the accurate one.

Dr. Liz Angoff makes the case for going the other way: take the boring problem seriously, because that is the child's actual experience, and it's the only version they can do anything with. Build the road for what to do when something feels boring, and you've built self-advocacy at the same time.

Liz teaches the full method live this Friday, 11 Sept. 1.5 CE hours, APA sponsored, NBCC approved #7510. Register here: https://neurodiversityuniversity.thrivecart.com/explaining-diagnosis-sept-2026/

Full episode 331 - https://neurodiversitypodcast.com/home/2026/9/9/episode-331-understanding-yourself-a-process-to-finding-the-person-inside-reprise

An encore we picked on purpose. This Friday, Dr. Liz Angoff teaches the live CE training on exactly what she and Emily t...
09/09/2026

An encore we picked on purpose. This Friday, Dr. Liz Angoff teaches the live CE training on exactly what she and Emily talk about in this episode: how to explain a diagnosis to a child in a way that leaves them feeling more like themselves, not less.

Liz is a licensed educational psychologist and a diplomate in school neuropsychology. She wrote the Brain Building Books and the Our Brains series. In this episode she and Emily get into why kids already know something is different long before anyone names it, what happens when we wait to tell them, and what to say instead.

Episode 331 👉 https://neurodiversitypodcast.com/home/2026/9/9/episode-331-understanding-yourself-a-process-to-finding-the-person-inside-reprise

CE Training link: https://neurodiversityuniversity.thrivecart.com/explaining-diagnosis-sept-2026/

09/07/2026

"You're allowed to have a Wall of Awful. Let me be the first person to give you permission, if no one else has." When we don't give ourselves permission to struggle, we suffer unnecessarily, and everything gets harder. It doesn't mean you don't have to do the thing. You still have to do the thing. You're just allowed to find it hard.

ADHD Essentials, Brendan Mahan, closing out episode 330 🎧 https://neurodiversitypodcast.com/home/2026/9/2/episode-330-the-wall-of-awful-why-starting-feels-impossible

Four days left — Explaining a Diagnosis to Kids in a Neurodiversity Affirming Way. A four-step clinical framework for di...
09/07/2026

Four days left — Explaining a Diagnosis to Kids in a Neurodiversity Affirming Way. A four-step clinical framework for diagnostic disclosure, plus strength-based language for describing a child's profile in words they can actually use about themselves.

Liz Angoff, PhD, LEP
Friday 11 September, 2:00–3:30 pm ET
1.5 CE hours · APA and NBCC approved ( #7510)
$60 · recording included

Register here: https://neurodiversityuniversity.thrivecart.com/explaining-diagnosis-sept-2026/

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