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Supporting Students with Dyslexia :: Kerri Irvin [Ep 317]
Don't Mom Alone Podcast
03/08/21
•55m
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When it comes to learning differences and special education diagnoses, it can feel overwhelming and defeating to see your child struggle. My guest Kerri Irvin is a dyslexia specialist who has worked with countless children, teens and adults to help them thrive and embrace their learning differences.
“It amazes me the gifts that God provides for all children, alongside their challenges. For every challenge, an equally important, if not more significant, gift has been provided and their challenges, without fail, are gifts that support them with their talents and make them better learners and people.”
We talk about what dyslexia is, how students with dyslexia learn differently, ways to partner with your child’s teachers to help them succeed, and how to support friends who have children with learning differences. Kerri shares with passion and hope about how dyslexia is not just a learning challenge, but can be a strength.
Connect with KerriEmail: kdicalt123@gmail.com
Site: SK Designs for Learning
Links Mentioned:- The Yale Center for Dyslexia & Creativity
- International Dyslexia Association
- Neuhaus Education Center
- Scottish Rite for Children
- Orton-Gillingham Academy
- Kerri’s List of Resources
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Bruce Learns to Label His Feelings :: Bruce and Heather [Ep 316]
March 1, 2021
•42m
“What’s something you’ve grown in but at different speeds?”. After collecting listener questions, this question stood out to my husband Bruce. So instead of doing a general Q and A episode (in honor of our 22nd wedding anniversary), we decided to discuss Bruce’s journey in learning how to identify what he is feeling, labeling it and sharing it with others.
Listen to how we learned to process our feelings through church small group. And how we’ve grown as a couple to express those emotions in a healthy way.
“I think a common theme through all of this is just having a really constructive, clear language to talk about things. It is not like any one of these methods solves things. It's not a formula. The more precise and constructive and simple we make this language, the more effective communication can be.”
Here are the cards we reference in the show (see website show notes).
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- This is Us :: Bruce and Heather {Ep 145}
- Goals, Roles and Superpowers :: Bruce and Heather MacFadyen {Ep 112}
- When your Husband has a Demanding Job :: Bruce and Heather {Ep 38}
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- Recovery for Life :: Lynn Hoffman [Ep 129]
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True Intimacy with God :: Mo Isom Aiken [Ep 318]
March 15, 2021
•60m
I’m excited to welcome back Mo Isom Aiken to the podcast. She writes and speaks powerfully about how God has redeemed her own brokenness and set her on a path to challenge, encourage and equip other Christ followers. In this episode we talk about how each of us was made for true intimacy with God on a heart level.
“The ultimate will of the Father is to know him intimately and to be known by him and to press into an intimacy with God that is all-consuming and not based on our doing as much as our being with him -- who we are, who he is. Allowing this intimacy that really takes us to think about marital intimacy, a vulnerable exposed, honest place that draws near to us. And somehow this rhythmic, you know, coming together transforms our heart.”
Mo takes us into her own story of God peeling back the layers of shame and her own twisted view of intimacy to heal the deep places of her heart. We talk about how God wants to do the same for each of us, but it’s a process.
In this time when so many of us have lost the support that sustained us and distractions that hid our true feelings, Mo invites us to draw near to God trusting him and exposing our physical vulnerabilities to him.
“If we want to understand the deeper layers of spiritual intimacy with God, we've got to be willing to work through the very physical layers of things that have impacted our life and story because everything in the physical is ultimately served to shape our perspective of intimacy overall and especially intimacy with God.”
Connect with Mo:- Website: www.moisom.com
- Facebook: facebook.com/TheMoIsom
- Instagram: @moisom
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