TPP 277: Respectful and Neurodiversity-Informed Parenting, With AuTeach Founder Robin Roscigno
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Full-Tilt Parenting: Strategies, Insights, and Connection for Parents Raising Neurodivergent Children
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What is the background and mission of AuTeach and its founder Robin Roscigno?
They are overused, and I can say that with great confidence because they work at on a lot of cases of routine restraint and seclusion. It happens in public schools, it happens in private schools, it happens in residential programs. It's pretty ubiquitous. And anyone who has a kid who has any type of behavior. has likely had their child at least partially restrained at some point in their school career.
Welcome to Tilt Parenting, a podcast featuring interviews and conversations aimed at inspiring, informing, and supporting parents raising differently wired kids. I'm your host, Debbie Rieber. My guest for today's episode is Robin Rossigno, a PhD candidate in education at the Rucker School of Education, who specializes in the history of autism intervention in the US. Robin's experience as a late-diagnosed autistic woman, parent of an autistic child, and educator with 10 plus years of experience inspired her to start All Teach, her community outreach project about respectful, neurodiversity-informed parenting and teaching. Alteach has already reached millions of viewers on TikTok and has helped shape a new narrative around autism.
Although I admittedly am not up on TikTok, I feel like I finally have a good reason to join just to hear Robin's advice for parents. During our conversation, you will hear us talk about Robin's work with Autteach as well as her powerful TEDx talk called Your Autistic Child Can Have a Great Life.
autism diagnosis for their child and what the autism industrial complex is. Robin also talks about her area of focus for her doctoral program, which is actively working to get rid of the use of restraint and seclusion as a tool in schools, and shares advice and action steps we can take to advocate and look out for our children in school systems that are often disrespectful to autistic children. And remember, if you want to dive deeper into my conversation with Robin, please check out the show notes page on Till Parenting. There you'll find a bullet pointed list of key takeaways, a transcript of the episode, links to all the resources mentioned, and a podcast player with the episode broken down into chapters.
So if you want to go back and re-listen to a specific piece of the conversation, you can easily find it. This week's episode can be found at TiltParenting dot com slash session two seventy seven. If you're feeling stressed and overwhelmed with changing schedules, family and in-law dynamics, big expectations, and tricky kid energy, and you could use a giant reset button so you can wipe the slate clean and start fresh, check out my new mini course, The Emergency Reset. I created this course to help you get out of a negative parent-child cycle and prevent you from getting dragged back into that cycle moving forward. It's about creating new energy, a new dynamic and new resolve to show up for ourselves and our kids in a way that feels so much better.
So if you could use some extra support right now and set yourself up for a smoother holiday season, please check out the emergency reset. You can learn more at tiltparenting.com slash emergency reset. Thanks so much. And now here is my conversation with Robin. Hey Robin, welcome to the podcast. Hey Debbie, how are you? I'm doing okay. So um I've read your formal bio and shared with listeners kind of the top line items of what you do in the world, but could you give us a little bit more of your story and and who you are? Sure.
Um, so um I'm Robin. I think that's we got that far. Um, and I am uh an autistic parent of an autistic child, but I did not find that out until I was like an adult. So I was diagnosed after my child, which seems to be a fairly common story of women, um, especially our age. Um, so you know, I was not diagnosed as a child. brother was. Um and then I went into teaching. And so before I even had my daughter, I was a special education teacher. Um and I taught um autistic students my whole teaching career. And then I left to do my PhD and I um I do research about autism, um, disability studies kind of research.
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Chapters
8 chapters
1
What is the background and mission of AuTeach and its founder Robin Roscigno?
0:00–4:44
2
How did Robin’s personal experience as a late‑diagnosed autistic parent shape AuTeach?
4:44–9:57
3
What key messages does Robin’s TEDx talk “Your Autistic Child Can Have a Great Life” convey?
9:57–11:19
4
What is the “autism industrial complex” and how does it affect families?
11:19–14:33
5
Why are restraint and seclusion practices overused in schools, and what are the risks?
14:33–15:16
6
What legislative actions (e.g., CASA Keeping All Students Safe Act) can reduce restraint and seclusion?
15:16–17:04
7
What practical steps can parents take to advocate for respectful, neurodiversity‑informed interventions?
17:04–19:24
8
How can families access Robin’s resources, courses, and community support?
19:24–39:02
Speakers
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