Home Educating a child with Pathological Demand Avoidance

About this episode

Emily discusses home educating children with Pathological Demand Avoidance with guests Jenni and Martha from AuDHDacious Humans.

In today's episode, Emily chats with the wonderful AuDHDacious Humans about the whirlwind that is home educating a child with PDA (Pathological Demand Avoidance). If your child has PDA or suspected PDA, this is a must listen episode where all three parents talk of their experiences of parenting and home educating this unique condition. Jenni Angas-Hi, we’re Martha and Jenni. We are both AuDHDers, ex-teachers, and parent carers to our AuDHD/PDA kids, who we now home educate and unschool, since leaving the education system and our jobs as teachers, over 3 years ago. After struggling to find home ed clubs that could accommodate our kids, we started our own: Make and Create Club, where we offer community, advocacy and sensory support in a flexible low-demand environment where pressure-sensitive kids can thrive, especially those who flourish when they carve their own path. Our motto is connection over conforming, always. As AuDHDacious Humans, we offer online support for discombobulated parents, carers, families, and educators looking for an alternative outside the education system to help them find their inner rebel so that all neurodivergent humans can heal and thrive away from the…

People in this episode

Host: Emily

Guests: Jenni Angas-Hi, Martha

Topics covered

• home education
• Pathological Demand Avoidance
• neurodiversity
• parenting
• support networks

Keywords

• PDA
• home education
• neurodivergent
• parenting
• support
• AuDHD
• unschooling

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: AuDHDacious Humans, Make and Create Club, Finch Care

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