Day 4
September 4, 2026
Becoming
Scaffolding vs Independence
Debbie Reber, MA
CEO & Founder, Tilt Parenting
Determining your child's unique level and timeline of growth
How to know if your asking too much vs too little of your child
What to do with your own discomfort around tricky situations
✨ Differently Wired Family Hub
The Differently Wired Family Hub is a free collection of Tilt’s best starter resources, including:
10 Things You Need to Know & 7 Day Challenge video series
Downloadable PDFs of workbooks, templates & tools
Crowdsourced list of neurodivergent-friendly schools
Meet Our Speaker
Debbie Reber, MA, is a parenting activist, bestselling author, speaker, and the founder of Tilt Parenting, which provides tools, coaching, and community for parents raising neurodivergent kids. Since launching Tilt in 2016, Debbie has championed a strengths-based approach that reframes how society supports differently wired kids. Her groundbreaking book, Differently Wired, is widely recommended by professionals in education and mental health, and her Full-Tilt Parenting Podcast has 10+ million downloads, featuring leading voices in the intersection of parenting and neurodivergence. A parent coach and Positive Discipline trainer, Debbie has been featured in The Washington Post, The New York Times, and on NewsNation, is a three-time TEDx speaker, and is a founding expert and advisor for HumanUp.
Before founding Tilt, Debbie Reber spent over 15 years writing books for women and teens, consulting for organizations like Aetna, Disney, and the Girl Scouts, and producing content for CARE, UNICEF, and Nickelodeon’s Blue’s Clues. She authored titles including Doable, Chill, and the Louder Than Words teen memoir series, and holds an MA in Media Studies from the New School for Social Research. Now based in the Netherlands, Debbie lives with her husband Derin (the Head of Operations for Tilt) and two cats, while their neurodivergent young adult attends university in Scotland.
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Facebook: https://facebook.com/tiltparenting
Instagram: https://instagram.com/tiltparenting
Website: https://tiltparenting.com
Podcast: https://tiltparenting.com/podcast
Other: https://debbiereber.substack.com/
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Screens, Dysregulation & Executive Function
Michael McLeod
GrowNOW ADHD
What are executive functions
What are the four pillars
How to strengthen them
✨ EF-Tech Plan
Create screentime structure in your home
Free worksheets
Evidence based info
Meet Our Speaker
In 2016, Michael created the Internal Skills Executive Function Strengthening Model and founded GrowNOW ADHD.
His mission is simple: improve quality of life for youth and families navigating ADHD and executive function challenges.
For more than 20 years, Mike has provided specialized support in:
ADHD
Executive Functioning
Social Executive Functioning
Parent Coaching
He has presented his model to audiences across the U.S. and internationally, combining practical, strength-based strategies with deep clinical expertise.
Mike holds a Master’s degree from Lehman College and has collaborated with leading doctors, neuropsychologists, and nonprofit organizations.
Also:
Award-Winning Keynote Speaker
Award-Winning Professional Development Trainer
Co-Host of the ADHD Parenting Podcast
Author of The Executive Function Playbook and The Executive Function Playbook in Action
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Website: https://www.grownowadhd.com/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/grownowadhd
Podcast: ADHD Parenting Podcast
Preventing (Homeschool) Burnout While Supporting
High-Needs Kids
Cynthia Heren
Inside Our Normal
You are part of the system you're trying to support, not separate from it.
Caring for yourself is not selfish—it helps create stability, connection, and resilience for everyone around you.
The goal isn't doing more or doing it perfectly; it's building a life and family culture that can be sustained over the long term.
✨ On the Go Sensory Toolkit
Sensory toolkit packing list with practical items for real-life outings
Easy-to-implement sensory support ideas you can use anywhere
10 movement break activities to get the wiggles out and help kids refocus
Meet Our Speaker
Seth wears a lot of hats in the Executive Function, Neurodiversity, ADHD, 2e, and Education worlds; coach, speaker, educator, vlogger, and guy who cares about seeing outside-the-box kids succeed.
At the heart of it, Seth helps struggling learners navigate a baffling system, so they can launch a successful future. And it all has to do with Executive Function. His weekly vlog at SethPerler.com gives game-changing answers in a sea of misguided educational fluff.
Seth runs The Executive Function Online Summit, or TEFOS, an incredible, free event that serves 100,000+ parents and teachers in over 130 countries worldwide. It’s packed with practical expert strategies to support children of all ages. ExecutiveFunctionSummit.com
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Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/insideournormal
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/insideournormal/
Website: https://insideournormal.com/
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Accommodations for School and Life Success
Dr. Norrine Russell
Russell Coaching for Students
The Accommodations Paradox: Giving students what they are entitled to but not what they need
The Relationship Readiness Gap: Focusing on social and emotional skills but not real life relationships
The Independence Test: Talking about adulthood without doing adulthood
Meet Our Speaker
Dr. Russell has a Ph.D. in psychology, with a focus on developmental psychology and education. She is an executive functioning and ADHD expert and the founded Russell Coaching in 2009, now the largest student coaching practice in the U.S. She works with students and families to build skills in time management, organization, emotional regulation, and independence—helping them navigate the real challenges of school and daily life. Through her Connected Coaching approach, she focuses on strengthening relationships while building the executive functioning skills students need to succeed on their own.
Dr. Russell is also the author of Asking the Right Questions About ADHD, a guide for parents navigating the complexities of ADHD before, during, and after diagnosis. Her work helps families better understand their child’s behavior, ask more informed questions, and take meaningful next steps with greater confidence and clarity.
She’s also the host of Breaking Out of the Box: ADHD, Autism, and Anxiety, where she shares practical, real-world strategies for parents raising teens and young adults. Through her podcast, she helps families better understand ADHD, anxiety, and executive functioning challenges, while offering tools that are realistic, actionable, and grounded in everyday life.
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The ABCs and 123s of Co-Regulation: What to Do When Big Emotions Take Over
Elizabeth Sautter, M.A., CCC-SLP
Author, Presenter, Social Emotional Coach
Learn the ABC framework for responding to big emotions in real time: Assess the situation, Balance the brain through co-regulation, and Connect before moving into collaboration.
Understand why meltdowns and shutdowns are stress responses, not defiance, and how shifting from judgment to curiosity helps parents respond with more calm, clarity, and compassion.
Walk away with practical do’s and don’ts for challenging moments, including how to regulate yourself first, reduce escalation, validate your child’s experience, and repair after the storm has passed..
✨ Regulation in Real Time Toolkit
Daily Regulation Check-In A visual tool to help identify signals, sensations, and energy in the body and brain, and build emotional awareness and regulation.
Mindful Body Scan A gentle guided exercise to tune into body sensations and energy. This increases interoception awareness.
The ABCs of Co-Regulation Poster Simple activities to support regulation in the brain and body.
Meet Our Speaker
Elizabeth Sautter, MA, CCC-SLP, is a speech-language pathologist, author, trainer, and social-emotional learning coach with 30 years of experience supporting neurodivergent individuals and their families. She is the author of Make Social and Emotional Learning Stick, co-founder of The Connected Family Community, and a collaborator with The Zones of Regulation® and Everyday Regulation. As a neurodivergent adult and parent of two neurodivergent boys, Elizabeth combines professional expertise with lived experience to offer practical, neurodiversity-affirming strategies that support emotional regulation, executive functioning, and communication through everyday routines.
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Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ElizabethSautterMACCCSLP/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/elizabeth.sautter/
Website: https://elizabethsautter.com/
Pinterest: https://www.pinterest.com/elizasautter/
Eating Better for Emotional Regulation
Dr. Uma Naidoo
Director
Understand how nutrition affects emotional regulation through the gut-brain connection, including how food can influence mood, energy, inflammation, and stress responses.
Learn simple ways to build more balanced meals with vegetables, protein, healthy fats, and whole foods, while still working with sensory needs, food preferences, and busy family life.
Discover how to help kids develop “body intelligence” by noticing how different foods make them feel, making healthier choices without shame or restriction, and using food to support regulation rather than as an emotional crutch.
✨ C.A.L.M.S Guide to help your eat to lower stress
The list of foods to help lower stress, anxiety and uplift mood. E.g. C is for vitamin C, choline rich foods and extra dark chocolate.
Meet Our Speaker
Dr. Uma Naidoo is a Harvard trained nutritional psychiatrist, professional chef, and nutritional biologist & author of the national & international bestseller: “This is Your Brain on Food.” Her most recent best-selling book is “Calm Your Mind with Food.”
The late Michelin-starred chef David Bouley described Dr. Uma Naidoo as the world’s first “triple threat” in the food and medicine space as the nexus of her interests have found their niche in Nutritional Psychiatry. US News and World Report calls her “America’s Nutritional Psychiatrist.” She is also pioneering a new area of mental fitness called Culinary Psychiatry where she teaches how to integrate the science backed principles of nutritional psychiatry into cooking. Dr. Naidoo founded the first and hospital-based Nutritional Psychiatry Service in the USA. at Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School. She is now building the education and training programs in this specialty area of psychiatry.
She was awarded the international honor of being the 2024 Rundle-Lister Lectureship in Transformative Nutritional Medical Education by the University of Toronto. She is also the 2026 awardee of the APA Visvanathan Lectureship in Lifestyle Psychiatry recognizing her pioneering work. She serves as a regular media contributor at CNBC, works at the World Economic Forum (New Frontiers of Nutrition) and is on a United Nations task force for mental health.
She is an Instructor on brain health @MasterClass.
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Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/DrUmaNaidoo
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/drumanaidoo/
Website: https://umanaidoomd.com/
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