Mission Statement | Neurodivergent Paren

Our Mission

Supporting Families with Neurodivergent Children

At Neurodivergent Parenting Support Services (NDPSS), our mission is to empower families, parents, and neurodivergent adults with the knowledge, tools, and compassion needed to thrive — not just survive.

We believe that every child deserves to be understood through a strengths-based, neuro-affirming lens — and that every parent and adult deserves support that honors their lived experience, nervous system, and capacity.

Grounded in neuroscience, relationship-based practices, and real-life understanding, we walk alongside families to:

Decode behavior through connection, not compliance
Create practical strategies rooted in emotional regulation, sensory integration, and executive functioning
Support identity development and self-advocacy across the lifespan
Advocate for compassionate, PDA-affirming, and developmentally appropriate supports in all environments

At NDPSS, we meet families where they are — and help them build a path forward that feels sustainable, supportive, and true to who they are.

Welcome To Holland

by Emily Perl Kingsley

Reprinted by permission of the author.

I am often asked to describe the experience of raising a child with a disability - to try to help people who have not shared that unique experience to understand it, to imagine how it would feel. It's like this……

When you're going to have a baby, it's like planning a fabulous vacation trip - to Italy. You buy a bunch of guide books and make your wonderful plans. The Coliseum. The Michelangelo David. The gondolas in Venice. You may learn some handy phrases in Italian. It's all very exciting.

After months of eager anticipation, the day finally arrives. You pack your bags and off you go. Several hours later, the plane lands. The flight attendant comes in and says, "Welcome to Holland.”

"Holland?!?" you say. "What do you mean Holland?? I signed up for Italy! I'm supposed to be in Italy. All my life I've dreamed of going to Italy.”

But there's been a change in the flight plan. They've landed in Holland and there you must stay.

The important thing is that they haven't taken you to a horrible, disgusting, filthy place, full of pestilence, famine and disease. It's just a different place.

So you must go out and buy new guide books. And you must learn a whole new language. And you will meet a whole new group of people you would never have met.

It’s just a different place. It's slower-paced than Italy, less flashy than Italy. But after you've been there for a while and you catch your breath, you look around.... and you begin to notice that Holland has windmills....and Holland has tulips. Holland even has Rembrandts.

But everyone you know is busy coming and going from Italy... and they're all bragging about what a wonderful time they had there. And for the rest of your life, you will say "Yes, that's where I was supposed to go. That's what I had planned."

And the pain of that will never, ever, ever, ever go away... because the loss of that dream is a very very significant loss.

But... if you spend your life mourning the fact that you didn't get to Italy, you may never be free to enjoy the very special, the very lovely things ... about Holland.

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