About Ally
I'm not just a specialist.
I live this every single day.
Early Intervention Specialist. Autism and parenting coach. ADHD brain. Autism parent. And a real person who has sat exactly where you're sitting right now.
Ally Wiener-Avraham, M.S.Ed
Early Intervention Specialist · Autism & Parenting Coach · Founder of Tis the Tism
I've spent over 15 years working with neurodivergent individuals and families across homes, daycares, schools, and community spaces. I've worked with kids from birth through school age, and with adults discovering themselves later in life.
But here's what my resume doesn't say: I have ADHD. I have dyslexia. I struggled in school, felt out of place, and spent years figuring out how my own brain works. And I'm raising two neurodivergent kids of my own.
That's not a footnote to my work. That's the whole reason I do it.
My Story
Why I built Tis the Tism
I didn't build Tis the Tism from a textbook. I built it from experience — the kind that keeps you up at night. I was the parent on the waitlist. I was the one being told we didn't qualify. I was sitting in IEP meetings not knowing what to ask, fighting for my kids and feeling completely alone. I know that feeling. And I never want another family to feel it.
Tis the Tism exists because every family deserves education, connection, and someone standing right beside them. Not a voicemail, not a two-year wait, not another door closing in their face. A real person, with real experience, who genuinely gets it. That's what I'm here to be for you.
What I believe
My approach is a little different.
Behavior is communication.
Before we ask a child to change their behavior, we need to understand what they're trying to say.
Regulation comes before learning.
A dysregulated child cannot learn. A dysregulated parent cannot parent. We have to start there.
Families need real strategies.
Not textbook answers. Strategies that actually fit into your real life, your real home, your real family.
Your child is a whole person.
Not a diagnosis. Not a behavior. A whole, complex, incredible human being who deserves to be seen that way.
You are not going crazy.
What you're feeling is real. What your child is going through is real. And you deserve support too.
Neurodivergent is not broken.
My goal is never to make your child look neurotypical. It's to help them thrive as exactly who they are.
Our Family
We're the Avraham family. And yes, we live this too.
When I married Emmanuel, I knew he was brilliant, creative, and saw the world in a way that was completely his own. What we didn't have yet was the language for it. It wasn't until years later, as we navigated our children's journeys, that Emmanuel received his own diagnosis. Late-diagnosed autistic and ADHD. And suddenly, so much of his story made sense. That moment is exactly why I believe it is never too late to understand yourself, and never too late to get support.
Then came Azriel. Our firstborn. Gifted, imaginative, fiercely curious, and one of the most loving humans I have ever met. And then Ashira. Sweet, hardworking, deeply feeling, trying so hard every single day to hold her world together. Between the two of them, we have autism, ADHD, anxiety, giftedness, and more love than I know what to do with.
Here's the part of our story that most people never see. Our kids mask. They walk into school, into stores, into birthday parties, and they hold it together. They work so incredibly hard to look like everything is fine. And for a while, it is. Until it isn't. Until we are in the grocery store and the lights are too bright and the cart is wrong and suddenly we are the family getting stared at. The family someone whispers about. The kids who get labeled disruptive, dramatic, or undisciplined. The parents who apparently just need to get it together.
What those people don't see is a nervous system that has been running on empty for hours. A child who gave everything they had just to get through the day. Masking is exhausting. And even the best masks crack. Our kids have high support needs, and those needs don't disappear just because you can't always see them.
We are still learning. Every single day. Because that's the truth about neurodiversity that nobody tells you. It doesn't fit into a neat box. It shifts and grows and surprises you. And the moment you think you have it figured out, something changes. So we show up anyway. Imperfect, learning, and completely committed to figuring it out together. That's our family. And that's why this work is personal.
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