Day 2
October 28, 2025
Comprehend
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The Sensory-Emotion Link:
Why Your Child’s Big Feelings Aren’t Just About Behavior
Tarryn Poulton
Occupational Therapist and Founder of Nurture ADHD
What sensory processing has to do with big emotions (and why it’s not “just behavior”).
How to spot sensory triggers before things boil over.
Simple ways to help your child feel more calm and in control.
ADHD Routine Checklist
Visual routines that actually work for ADHD brains – Break down mornings and evenings into manageable, predictable steps that reduce stress and boost independence.
Customizable checklists for real families – Includes editable templates, icons, and visuals so you can tailor routines to your child’s specific needs and age.
Created by an OT (and ADHD mom) – These are the exact checklists I used with my own kids to calm the chaos and create smoother, more connected days.
Tarryn Poulton is an Occupational Therapist, ADHD parent, and founder of Nurture ADHD.
She supports overwhelmed parents with real-life tools to help their kids thrive—without shame, yelling, or burnout. With over a decade of clinical experience and a personal journey raising a child with ADHD, Tarryn brings both expertise and empathy to her work. Through practical strategies, routines that actually work, and a deep understanding of sensory and emotional needs, she helps families build calmer days and stronger connections.
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SIGNAL Parenting™:
What Your Child’s Stress Responses Are Really Telling You
Penny Williams
Parent Coach & Creator of SIGNAL Parenting
Behavior isn’t the problem — it’s the signal. Stress responses are messages from your child’s nervous system.
Every signal has a need. When you match support to the state, your child feels safe and understood.
Following the signal builds trust and resilience. Over time, you and your child become partners in regulation.
Animal Instincts Quiz & Personalized Guide
Identify how your kid's nervous system responds to stress to understand their big emotions and big behaviors
Transform chaos into connection with personalized strategies that work with your child's natural instincts
Help your child learn how their body and emotions work together by speaking their emotional language
Penny Williams is a parenting coach, author, and educator helping families of neurodivergent kids—those with ADHD, autism, and anxiety—move from frustration to confidence. She provides science-backed strategies to support kids while honoring their unique needs.
An award-winning author of four ADHD books, including Boy Without Instructions, Penny also hosts the Beautifully Complex Podcast (5M+ downloads) and founded the Regulated Kids Project, a membership for emotional regulation tools. She co-created the Survival to Success Accelerator™, a neuroscience-based parent training program.
Featured in ADDitude, Autism Parenting, and CHADD, Penny has helped thousands of families thrive.
Learn more at ParentingADHDandAutism.com.
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Neurodivergence, Advocacy & Supporting Autistics
Dr. Destiny Huff, LPC
Mental Health Therapist and Non-Attorney Special Education Advocate
What does it mean to advocate?
What does Neuroaffirming mean?
How to support Autistics in an emotionally healthy way?
Supporting Autistics in a Neuroaffirming Way
What does it mean to be neuroaffirming?
What support looks like at home?
What support looks like at school?
Dr. Destiny Huff, LPC (she/her), is a late-diagnosed Black Autistic and ADHD mental health therapist, parent of two neurodivergent children, and non-attorney special education advocate. She is the owner of HRG Counseling & Supervision, LLC and Destiny Huff Consulting, LLC. Through her counseling practice, Dr. Huff provides therapy for children, adolescents, and adults. Through her advocacy and consulting work, she supports parents of neurodivergent learners at the IEP table and trains schools, organizations, and families on neuroaffirming practices and supporting the mental health of neurodivergent learners.
She is the author of Neuroaffirming Advocacy: A Neuroaffirming Guide to Special Education and co-host of The Affirming Village podcast with Lisa Baskin Wright.
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Defiance & Aggression in Strong-Willed Children
Mona Delahooke, Ph. D.
Clinical Psychologist
(Replay)
What causes defiance, disrespect, and strong wills in children
When children are annoying or physically violent to each other
Effective repair for when we lose it (and scream at our kids)
The importance of sleep for handling challenging behaviors
Dr Mona Delahooke is the author of the award winning book Beyond Behaviors: Using Brain Science and Compassion to Understand and Solve Children’s Behavioral Challenges (PESI, 2019), and the best-selling Brain-Body Parenting: How to Stop Managing Behaviors and start Raising Joyful, Resilient kids. She founded the Brain-body Parenting Collective, a supportive Community for parents and providers.
This interview was originally recorded for our 2023 summit, just weeks before Dr. Mona suffered a severe brain aneurysm. We’re deeply grateful to share it again—not only to celebrate her groundbreaking work, but to honor her ongoing recovery and the incredible impact she continues to have on families around the world.
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Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/DrMonaDelahooke
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/monadelahooke
Website: https://monadelahooke.com
ADHD & RSD
Kristina Manning
Founder of Calm Minds
Understand how RSD shows up in elementary-aged children and how to tell it apart from typical emotional responses.
Learn in-the-moment strategies to help kids cope with rejection or criticism and build resilience after setbacks.
Equip teachers with the understanding and tools to respond with empathy and support in the classroom.
A Parent’s Guide to Understanding ADHD & Rejection Sensitive Dysphoria (RSD)
Recognize the Signs: How to identify common signs of Rejection Sensitive Dysphoria (RSD) in kids.
Practical Parent Tools: Simple ways parents can support and guide children struggling with RSD.
Stronger School Partnerships: Tips for collaborating effectively with teachers to create a supportive environment.
Kristina is a seasoned ADHD Parenting Coach with a wealth of experience in fostering harmonious family dynamics. With a background spanning 15 years in the education sector as both a classroom teacher and school counselor, Kristina founded Calm Minds Parent Coaching to address the critical need for parental support. She helps parents create peaceful and thriving home environments. Her passion lies in empowering parents of kids with ADHD to embody the principles of peaceful parenting and nurturing healthier relationships within the family unit.
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