Hi, I’m Shannon and I’m the mama to the sweetest, funniest little boy there ever was—Revv Autuori! Revv is a very bright kid but is struggling immensely in school this year. Revv has level 1 (high functioning) autism, ADHD, central auditory processing disorder, and transient alteration of awareness. His psychiatrist says that kids with delayed executive functioning skills, almost always found in autism/ADHD, find the school day to be extremely exhausting, long, and overwhelming, and this is exactly what Revv is going through. He puts on a poker face when he’s there but begs me all night and morning not to go to school, crying, “But mom... the day is so long.” He’s miserable all day and it’s literally killing his beautiful spirit. He goes to therapy, but it isn’t helping. I was at a loss of what to do until I found Tapouts.com.
Tapouts offers weekly 30-minute Zoom sessions where your child interacts with a “mentor” or “coach” (licensed professional therapist) and 3-4 other children in their “pod” with games, open sessions, and mentoring mixed in that foster an impactful, empathetic learning experience with serious fun along the way. They do activities and games that all encourage and build the following skills that are not taught in school: well-being, emotional understanding, expressing emotions, identifying unhelpful thoughts, how to be more resilient, how to express feelings, make new friends, optimize joy even when life gets heavy, manage thoughts, growth mindset, and stress mindset, making your child more resilient to whatever life brings. Tapouts.com has a 90% success rate! They cost $37 per week/session.
As a single mom on one income, unable to work a second job because I am going to graduate school to get a second Master’s Degree in Early Childhood Special Education, so that I can get a special ed teaching job in the public schools one day, I need help from the community to fund these sessions. Please help Revv receive Tapouts sessions so that school can not only become more bearable but enjoyable! He will be going to middle school next year, so he needs these sessions desperately and he needs them ASAP! That transition to middle school is going to be tough and school is only going to get harder.
