Your Kid Belongs Here: An Insider's Guide to Parenting Neurodiverse Children

by Katie Rose Guest Pryal, Leanne Woodward (Read by)

Overview

Your Kid Belongs Here is a heartfelt, practical guide to parenting children in a world not designed for them—or their parents. Combining personal stories, research, and helpful strategies, Katie Rose Guest Pryal shares her journey as a neurodivergent mother raising neurodivergent children and offers a powerful narrative of advocacy, empathy, and resilience.

With a focus on building trust, fostering self-advocacy, and embracing neurodiversity, this guide:

● Offers strategies for supporting emotional regulation and managing children's meltdowns, anxiety, and other emotional challenges.

● Guides parents on navigating schools and advocating for their child's rights in educational settings.

● Encourages parents to support and engage with their children's special interests and passions as a pathway to growth and confidence.

● Highlights the importance of parents' self-care and well-being, with practical tips for managing stress and maintaining resilience.

An empowering, empathetic resource for parents, educators, and advocates, this guide invites listeners to reimagine how inclusive and supportive parenting can contribute to a more compassionate world.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9798228660670
Publisher:	Tantor
Publication date:	11/11/2025
Product dimensions:	5.30(w) x 7.50(h) x (d)
Age Range:	18 Years

About the Author

Katie Rose Guest Pryal is an author, neurodiversity expert, and adjunct professor of law at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She is the author of Life of the Mind Interrupted: Essays on Mental Health and Disability in Higher Education and the award-winning Even If You're Broken: Bodies, Boundaries, and Mental Health.


Leanne Woodward has always wondered what was happening elsewhere. In someone else's story, in some other universe. Now she spends her days immersed in fantastical, dark, and thrilling tales. She's been behind the microphone for more than thirty years, working in radio as well as on commercial voice-over projects. Her theater and improv experience bring risk-taking, emotion, and depth to her performances. She loves learning accents and languages-currently, French!

When not narrating, Leanne explores the "real" world with hikes into the wild and dangerous culinary experiments.

Table of Contents

Preface
Introduction
1. The Exclusion of Neurodivergent Kids from Public Life
2. Previewing, Meltdowns, and Social Policing
3. Masking, Treatments, and Affirming Neurodiversity
4. The Medication Double Bind
5. School Accommodations
6. Bullying, Vulnerability, and Trauma
Acknowledgments
Notes
Index

What People are Saying About This

From the Publisher

As an autistic mother, Pryal provides lots of practical advice from raising her neurodivergent kids. It is essential reading for parents, teachers, and professionals. I really liked her recommendations on social media use and on navigating difficult meetings with a school about an individualized education program. Her commonsense views on the use of medication were refreshing.
—Temple Grandin, author, Thinking in Pictures: My Life with Autism