Ep. 2: Three in-the-Trenches Lessons Learned in 2022 About Autism and Acceptance
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How can SLPs help parents accept and love their autistic child?
What's up everyone? Welcome to Making the Shift.
Where we listen to autistic voices,
explore new therapy ideas,
and share neurodiversity affirming methods and strengths-based approaches to support autistic kids.
Because we're not here to try and quote fix kids.
We are here to love them, embrace them, and celebrate them for who they are. I'm Jesse Ginsburg, sensory integration trained SLP, founder of a top-rated speech therapy clinic in Los Angeles, and creator of the Inside Out Sensory Certificate for SLPs.
And I'm Chris Winger, also known as Speech Dude, high school SLP and creator of the Dynamic Assessment for Social Emotional Learning. Are you ready to make the shift?
Let's do it. Hello! Hi everyone, we're so excited to get started. Welcome to episode two of Making the Shift. I'm Jesse Ginsberg.
Oh, and then my name is Chris Winger.
But we are here coming to you from Home. home this time.
Not Australia. Yeah, that's fun.
We got to do our live last week. Hopefully you guys caught it when we are in Australia. And now we are home. But honestly glad to be home, right?
Yeah, it's nice to be back and to have our own bed, which I love, and to um see the children and hang out with the children and you know, back to life. Uh as usual.
Yeah, that's true. It was a long time, I felt like a long time.
Exactly. And
that plane ride home. It's hard because when you're a parent, you totally try to give grace to other parents traveling with kids. It was just like a really long flight.
Yeah. And I think we were
sitting next to every child on the plane.
Well, it wasn't even that. It wasn't like we were just sitting next to um the entire back of the airplane with you know an entire preschool's worth of children, it was that they weren't On their best behaviour. We're like, hey, we know that guy. We know that Chris is gonna have a hard time sleeping if we make noise. So it's like all the children got together and they said, Hey, let's see how loud we can be for 15 hours. So that way Chris doesn't sleep. That's exactly what happened. So aside from my back being a little sore, my neck having a few aches, it wasn't even that, it was the part where I couldn't sit there and it was the noise.
But I got to watch seven movies, so can't complain because like when do I have time to do that?
Yeah, absolutely. Yeah,
good. But we had an awesome time. It was so awesome getting to meet everyone in Australia and It was just so cool. We had people, oh my gosh, I was just thinking about that woman. One SLP drove six and a half hours with her two teenagers in like the biggest storm that Australia's had in How long?
I think they said five centuries.
So something like really longer
than it's been a country.
And the best part was that at the end of the seminar she said, Hey, my kids have been following you. Chris on social media for so long. Is it okay if I bring them up? Those they were like in tears almost to meet you. It was the best. So
we got to hang out, we got to say our hellos and all that good stuff.
Yeah. So so fun, but we're so excited. And it was really the the reason we wanted to talk about what we were talking about today is because of a lot of the stories and things like that that we heard from the people we talk to and I was just thinking because this is our joke, is that our pillow talk is actually this. Type of conversation. all the time, but there's just We've learned so much already this year. And we were like, let's figure out what the three best things are that we've learned this year so we could share them.
What did the Australia conference trip teach the hosts about family dynamics?
Yeah, absolutely. So this will be very beneficial. I promise you're going to get some information and knowledge that will be useful in all aspects of your life, especially with work-related stuff and working with our autistic students.
Yeah, so you start.
Gosh, well let's transition into um the idea that when we were presenting in Australia, we um had an opportunity to talk to several people at the end of each of our presentations, right? And we had people coming up as Jesse said. And one of those things that resonated with me um was why we do what we do.
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Chapters
6 chapters
1
How can SLPs help parents accept and love their autistic child?
0:08–4:04
2
What did the Australia conference trip teach the hosts about family dynamics?
4:04–9:29
3
What is the first hard‑fought lesson they learned in 2022 about autism acceptance?
9:29–14:33
4
Why is meeting families where they are essential for neurodiversity‑affirming therapy?
14:33–20:17
5
How can clinicians plant a ‘seed of learning’ without forcing ideas on parents?
20:17–23:00
6
What does the ‘rippling effect’ metaphor illustrate about family involvement?
23:00–24:34
Speakers
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