Autism Live 5.13.24: Parent To Parent- Finishing the School Year Strong
Release Date: 05/13/2024
Autism Live 6.12.24: Cassie Gonzales and Jim Lange
Autism Live
On today’s Autism Live Cassie Gonzales visits to give an update on STAND, a research initiative designed to help parents of newly diagnosed children to access appropriate services and make decisions about how best to support their children on the spectrum. Cassie provides information on who is eligible to participate in the study and what benefits they may receive from participating. Today’s jargon is: Visual Schedule
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Autism Live 6.5.24: Parent to Parent- Autism Diets
Autism Live
On todays show Shannon shares an overview of some diets that might be of interest to parents of individuals on the spectrum, including GFCF, Keto, Finegold, Specific Carbohydrate, Reduced Pesticides, and Low Oxyalate.
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Autism Live 6.3.24: Dr. Marlo Payne Thurman
Autism Live
Dr. Marlo Thurman visits to share information about benefits of naturopathy to support the physiological challenges that can affect those on the autism spectrum. Dr. Thurmam’s new book Naturopathic Wisdom: A Common Sense Mind-Body Approach for Struggling Children and Teens, from Future Horizons will be available on June 4th at all major book sellers. Dr. Thurman has been working with and supporting the needs of Nuero-Diverse learners for over 25 years. Her website is Her book is available for preorder on amazon:
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Autism Live 5.29.24: Shain Neumeier
Autism Live
Advocate and Attorney Shain Neumeier joins Shannon to talk about the ongoing effort to close the Judge Rotenburg Center, the transgender community overlap with the autism community and the ways that individuals on the spectrum experience trauma.
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Autism Live 5.27.24: Lisa Gomez
Autism Live
On this very important show Shannon welcomes Lisa Gomez the Assistant Secretary of Employee Benefits for the Social Security Administration to talk about the importance of early intervention when treating autism. Assistant Secretary Gomez will talk about different types of autism treatments and therapies as well as discull EBSA and how it is helping to improve insurance coverage and access to treatment. Also discusses will be free resources to help families get access to benefit advisors and real stories of families getting better coverage and support through EBSA.
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Autism Live 5.22.24: Amy Gravino
Autism Live
Amy Gravino joins Shannon today to talk about her new sex educations curriculum she has designed for autistic individuals as well as what it is like presenting on receiving a genetic result for her autism and what that has meant to her and may mean for other individuals on the spectrum. Jargon of the Day: Executive Functioning
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Ask Evelyn Kung 5.21.24: Cognition Skills and Executive Functioning
Autism Live
Autism expert Evelyn Kung answers questions from around the world. Today's topics are Cognition Skills and Executive Functioning.
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Autism Live 5.20.24- Kelly Bermingham
Autism Live
On this episode Shannon welcomes Kelly Bermingham to talk about her new book, “The Group Experience: How to support children on the autism spectrum moving from individualized learning to a group learning experience.” Kelly shares vital resources and checklists to help determine a child’s current strengths and weaknesses and how to teach effectively to create progress for the individual. Listen to Kelly’s podcast A 25 Year Look Across the Spectrum here: https://youtu.be/WqOd014sL8A?si=y2FYuxnTMej4qCdT
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Autism Live 5.15.24: Matt Asner
Autism Live
On today’s show Shannon welcomes Matt Asner to talk about current events at the Ed Asner Family center including, The Academy and the 12th Annual Ed Asner & Friends Celebrity Poker Night. We will get the full 411 on what celebs will be present and how viewers can participate! For more information visit: https://edasnerfamilycenter.org/
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Ask Dr. Evelyn Kung 5.14.24: Topic- Motor Skills
Autism Live
Autism expert Evelyn Kung joins for a special edition of Ask Evelyn Kung. Today’s topic is: Motor Skills. Tune is as Evelyn answers questions from viewers around the world.
info_outlineOn today’s show Shannon gives her top tips for finishing the school year strong, including her top tip for the perfect teacher gift, and you won’t believe it is FREE!!!