Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchBeating the Odds: Zach’s Due Process Win Vs. Fairfax County Schools
Episode 72
David interviews advocate Elizabeth Zielinski and parent Jill Janson about Jill’s son Zach, a non-speaking speller, winning a due process hearing aga…
2 months, 2 weeks ago
Mary Brown and the triumphs of her Non-Speaking Son
Episode 71
David interviews Mary Brown, mother and communication partner of non-speaking autistic writer Woody Brown, whose debut novel Upward Bound (Hogarth) g…
2 months, 3 weeks ago
Dawnmarie Gaivin on Spelling, Apraxia & Building a Principled Movement
Episode 70
David welcomes Dawnmarie Gaivin, executive director of Spellers Freedom Foundation and co-author of The Spellers Guidebook, recalling how her intensi…
2 months, 3 weeks ago
Kelley Colihan Robertson on Journalism, Unreliable Speaking & Text-Based Communication
Episode 69
David welcomes guest Kelley Colihan Robertson, a former CNN journalist and documentary producer turned autism mom and communication rights advocate. …
3 months ago
Scott Sherwood on Lily’s Voice, Spelling & the Exhaustion of Being Doubted
Episode 68
David welcomes radiologist and author Scott Sherwood to discuss the exhaustion families feel when non-speaking autistic people’s intelligence, compet…
3 months ago
Autism News Update: the ‘Profound’ Label &, Communication Rights
Episode 67
David and producer/co-host David Yas recap recent autism-community developments after Autism Acceptance Month, focusing on the new Interagency Autism…
3 months, 1 week ago
Brooks Hamilton: Honoring Helen Keller’s Legacy & Communication Rights
Episode 66
David welcomes Brooks Hamilton, Helen Keller’s great-grandniece, to discuss Keller’s legacy as a lesson about access, support, belief, and a path to …
3 months, 2 weeks ago
Heather Burroughs on Presuming Competence & NY’s Communication Rights Bill
Episode 65
David interviews Heather Burroughs, a school psychologist and advocate shaped by growing up with an autistic sister and later fighting for her non-sp…
4 months ago
Lori McIlwain, founder and president of the National Autism Safety Council
Episode 64
David welcomes Lori McIlwain, founder and president of the National Autism Safety Council, to discuss autism safety with a focus on preventing harm …
4 months, 1 week ago
Looking at Late Autism Diagnoses with Dr. Claire Jack
Episode 63
David interviews Dr. Claire Jack, a psychologist, writer, and host of the Autistic Minds podcast, about identity, late diagnosis, masking, and burnou…
4 months, 2 weeks ago