11 MY CHILD HAS SYNESTHESIA. NOW WHAT? Wellbeing differences in child synesthetes with Nina Slottke

In today's episode Maike meets Nina Slottke. Nina is a psychotherapist for children and young people based in Germany. Together they discuss a paper on wellbeing differences in child synesthetes and what those findings mean for the psychological practice. They also brainstorm ideas on how to speak to kids about synesthesia and give advice to care givers on how to support child synesthetes and children with sensory processing difficulties. link to the paper discussed: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33048782/ Submit your "Synnie of the month" story over Instagram or through the Spotify question field. And don't forget to follow and give a review - this helps Maike & the podcast A TON! Connect with Maike Instagram/ TikTok: @synesthes_a www.synesthesia.at synesthes_a@outlook.com

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What is it like to live with different forms of synaesthesia? What do we know about synaesthesia from a scientific point of view? For this podcast Maike Preissing, psychologist & synaesthesia artist, invited synaesthetes from all around the world to tell their story. In season one we will hear from world-leading scientists, artists, musicians, book authors and neurodivergent people to learn about the beauty and burden of having a uniquely wired brain. If you want to connect, please reach out Instagram: @maikepreissing @synaesthes_a www.maikepreissing.com www.synesthesia.at