Another interesting Parental accommodation that I’ve been dealing with is parents over supporting their children do their homework when they have an LD In one case that I have, the teen gets very anxious when starting some homework tasks and the parents rush in to help to accommodate the anxiety. Sometimes it is hard to identify what is a parental accommodation for anxiety vs an appropriate accommodation for their learning difficulties...
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Has anyone had experience choosing parental accommodations of device use in teens? This is coming up in several cases that I have (parents allowing excessive time on devices in general (where devices are used as avoidance of anxiety), excessive watching Netflix in bathroom, excessive social media use). Have gone route of parents implementing software with controls by time or specific to device or media/app type), or parents taking phone at specific times, parents putting in place rules and checking phone usage data, using family media plans etc. https://www.healthychildren.org/English/media/Pages/default.aspx