Understanding your child's neurotype isn't about fitting them into a label — it's about seeing how they experience and process the world.

In this episode, we explore why taking the time to understand your child's strengths, challenges, and unique ways of learning is so important. Knowing this helps you advocate for them, access the right support, and find strategies that actually work.

We talk about how early support can make a huge difference, why no one is meant to do it alone, and how asking for help is a strength — not a failure. This episode is for anyone who wants to understand their child better and help them thrive.

In this episode of OT for Two, we explore what it feels like to be a square peg in a round hole.

Many of the systems around us — school, routines, expectations, even the way we define "success" — were designed with neurotypical brains in mind. For neurodivergent kids (and adults), that can mean constantly feeling like they're the wrong shape for the spaces they're expected to fit into.

In this conversation, Trish and Jayne share insights from their professional and personal lives about what happens when we stop trying to force children to fit the mould, and instead start creating environments that work for the way their brains naturally think, learn and move through the world.

Not all brains learn the same way — so why do we expect them to?

In this episode, Trish and Jayne unpack the quiet pressure many children feel to learn in one "acceptable" way: sitting still, making eye contact, hands in lap, whole body listening. But what if that model simply doesn't fit the brain in front of us?

This episode is a gentle (but honest) nudge to move away from prescriptive learning expectations and toward something far more powerful: meeting each child in the way their brain works best.