Shifting the Narrative on Everything Autism

Oct 28 2024 100 ep. 54 mins 28
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”Shifting the Narrative” is a podcast that seeks to dispel the myths, misconceptions, and fears around Everything Autism. Stacy Badon is an Autism Education specialist, Sensory Enrichment Therapist, and Parent Coach, with previous experience as a Speech Therapist and Early Intervention teacher for public schools. She has 20+ years of professional experience supporting families in the Autism community, as well as global experience volunteering with nonprofit organizations. Torrin Kearns is an Autistic screenwriter, blogger, and neurodiversity advocate. Each week, they’ll deep-dive into a different autism-related topic in a quest to provide answers, skills, and strategies for parents, caregivers, teachers, and therapists.

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EP 99: Tough Decisions Autism Parents Are Forced To Make

Oct 28 2024 52 mins  
On this week's episode, Stacy and Torrin discuss some of the hard decisions autism parents have to make while trying to do what's best for their children. Stacy is a parent of two. Torrin is autistic himself but doesn't have kids. It was an interesting discussion... *** Help marginalized youth get the education they deserve. Buy VQ Library a coffee: https://ko-fi.com/vqlibrary If y

EP 98: Steve Silberman Was the G.O.A.T. w/Julia Lee Barclay-Morton

Sep 16 2024 56 mins  
On this week's episode, Stacy and Torrin were joined again by Julia Lee Barclay-Morton to talk about the life and times of the late, great Steve Silberman, author of the groundbreaking book on autism Neurotribes. We spoke about the effect Neurotribes had on Stacy's therapy practices and Julia's discovery that she was autistic. We also spoke about Sliberman's lifelong social advocac

EP 97: How to Support Autistic Teens Part 1

Sep 09 2024 64 mins  
On this week's episode, Torrin and Stacy discuss ways parents, caregivers, teachers, and therapists can help support autistic teens. *** Help marginalized youth get the education they deserve. Buy VQ Library a coffee: https://ko-fi.com/vqlibrary If you are looking for one-on-one coaching with Stacy to help your child with autism reach their full potential, click the link below.http

EP 96: What They Don't Tell You About ABA w/Julie Roberts

Sep 02 2024 67 mins  
On this week's episode, Stacy and Torrin are joined by speech therapist, author, and public speaker Julie Roberts.Julie is the founder of the Therapist Neurodiversity Collective, an international neurodiversity-affirming therapy, education, and advocacy organization. She is also the author of The Gold Standard Fallacy of ABA: A Reference Guild for Therapists, Educators, & Pare

EP 95: What is Ableism w/Ande Quercus

Aug 26 2024 59 mins  
Ande Quercus returned this week, this time, for a discussion about ableism. What exactly is ableism? How can we identify it? How can we fight it? *** Help marginalized youth get the education they deserve. Buy VQ Library a coffee: https://ko-fi.com/vqlibrary If you are looking for one-on-one coaching with Stacy to help your child with autism reach their full potential, click the l

EP 94: Keep Your Hands Off Autistic Kids w/Ande Quercus

Aug 19 2024 46 mins  
On this week's episode, Stacy and Torrin speak to autism advocate Ande Quercus about systemic physical abuse of autistic children. In schools and group homes, physical restraint and abuse is commonplace; either legal or ignored. Ande is fighting to end these practices. *** Help marginalized youth get the education they deserve. Buy VQ Library a coffee: https://ko-fi.com/vqlibrary I

EP 93: The Hard Talks About Autism

Aug 15 2024 58 mins  
On this week's (very late) episode, Stacy and Torrin talk about autism.Yes, that's what we do every episode, but today, we discussed the shame and fear people have when talking about autism. Often, parents and family members are hesitant to reveal their child's autism diagnosis, even if doing so would help everyone involved. We got to the root of the problem. Why are people ashamed

EP 92: It's Never Too Late To Come Out As Autistic w/Gloria Jackson-Nefertiti

Aug 05 2024 67 mins  
On this episode, Stacy was joined by poet, public speaker, panelist, singer, photographer, performance artist's, and long-time artist's model Gloria Jarkson-Nefertiti. Gloria was diagnosed later in life with ADHD and later, autistic. She spoke with Stacy about her experiences going through life not knowing she had either. You can find Gloria at her website: https://www.notgloria

EP 91: What Is Mental Age?

Jul 29 2024 58 mins  
You've heard the line before. So and so with autism has a mental age of 2 or 4 or 6 years old. But what is mental age? On this week's episode, Stacy and Torrin discuss mental age and why it may not be an accurate descriptor of an autistic child's support needs. Hell, it might not even exist at all... *** Help marginalized youth get the education they deserve. Buy VQ Library a coffe

EP 90: What Effects Does Autism Have On Children's Self-Esteem?

Jul 22 2024 60 mins  
On this week's episode, Stacy and Torrin discuss the effects being autistic can have on a child's self-esteem and what parents, teachers, and autism professionals can do to help. *** Help marginalized youth get the education they deserve. Buy VQ Library a coffee: https://ko-fi.com/vqlibrary If you are looking for one-on-one coaching with Stacy to help your child with autism reach t