Everything begins with an idea. Most good ideas involve experience. HeartChild is a fabulous documentary on the forming of Askate Foundation, filmed nearly a decade ago! Rent or buy on Vudu, YouTube, Prime, or Apple today!

Askate events have a clear triad effect on those who attend. Volunteers experience a level of humbleness they rarely see, participants grow confidence, and parents experience unspeakable joy.

Dr. Stephen Porges, psychiatrist and neuroscientist who discovered the Polyvagal Theory, is a professor of Psychiatry at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Dr. Porges is also currently Director of the Kinsey Institute Traumatic Stress Research Consortium at Indiana University Bloomington, which studies trauma. Watch this informative description of what he believes is happening in the brain when a neurodiverse individual steps on a skateboard.

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