Ep. 37: Parenting an Autistic Child Ft. SLP Cari Ebert
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Who is Cari Ebert and what is her dual role as an SLP and autistic parent?
What's up everyone and welcome to Making the Shift.
We're an SLP couple from California with three boys and a passion for finding better ways to support autistic kids.
I'm Chris. You might know me as speech dude. I'm a Neurodivergent High School SLP and the creator of the Dynamic Assessment of Social Emotional Learning, and I specialize in crafting neurodiversity affirming IEPs through my online course.
And I'm Jesse, a sensory integration trained SLP, owner of a top-rated clinic in Los Angeles, and the creator of the Inside Out Sensory Communication Programs for Parents and Therapists. Join us weekly to learn neurodiversity-affirming ways to support social, emotional development, and regulation in autistic kids.
Are you ready to make the shift?
Hello everyone and welcome to Making the Shift. Today we are so fortunate to have our friend and colleague, SLP Carrie Ebert, here. You guys know her for her incredible seminars, books, products. Just that you got a lot going on. A lot to be known. Absolutely. We are just so honored to have you here today. Yeah. Have been friends with Carrie for a few years. I remember actually the first time I found you on social media and I was like shocked because I I found your page and I was like, I say these exact things. Oh my god, like I'm you. And I sent you a video. And I sent you a video, I think. I think you did. You did. You did, and it was so You did. And I was
so tickled because I was new to Instagram. I didn't even know what the heck I was doing. And you like sent me an audio, you know, like an actual message. And I was like, How do I do this? And it was you were sitting on a park bench and you were like recording yourself. And I was like, Well, this is the coolest person ever. So it was just so neat. So I started following you and I it was it was neat. So we've never met in person yet. Never met in person yet. Yeah, we're instant friends. We're Instagram. Yeah,
Sometime soon. That will
happen. Absolutely.
But um yeah, it's just been so awesome getting to know you. And we really wanted you to come on today to really be able to share your experience, not only as an incredible SLP, but also parent of an autistic child and kind of how you have integrated those two parts of your life together. So thank you so much for being here.
Thank you guys for for asking me to participate. I'm I'm honored and I'm excited to uh share a little bit of my journey and growth uh over the past um Couple decades.
Right, absolutely. Before we jump into the topic, I have a quick question. Okay. When I was growing up, my favorite T V show was called Siskel and Ebert. Uh I need to know. I need to know this answer. Are you rel were you related to I know,
I love it. People when I first got married and became an Ebert, everybody's like, Are you related to like Roger Ebert? You know the week critic. And we are not. I have checked all of my husband's like family lineage. We have no relation, but everybody remembers the name. When I say Ebert, they're like, Oh, I've heard that name before.
I I was that was my show. Like it's still till this day, you can ask Jesse like before we watch a Netflix show or a movie. I'm on Rotten Tomatoes, like finding out what the audience is saying. And yep. Um that's kind of how I got my so jumping into our tonight to to the show's topic, um, I would like, I guess, to kind of talk a little bit about You know where Um historically you come from the perspective of the role at the IEP table um in all settings, right? From the parent perspective. Where So let's start back historically where things were.
Yeah. So my son Aaron is 18 years old. He's a senior in high school, blows my mind, just got his um senior pictures back today. And I'm just reeling with emotion. Like, um, so back in 2007 when Aaron was first diagnosed, he got a provisional diagnosis of autism from his pediatrician um before he went and got that formal, you know, diagnosis. And so he was two and a half years old. And in 2007, autism was very much considered a tragedy. And so as an early intervention SLP, I was working with the birth of three population, you know, going into the families' homes.
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Chapters
4 chapters
1
Who is Cari Ebert and what is her dual role as an SLP and autistic parent?
0:08–16:06
2
How did Cari first discover her son Aaron’s autism diagnosis and what were the early challenges?
16:06–17:46
3
What were the prevailing attitudes toward autism in 2007 and how did they affect early intervention?
17:46–22:01
4
How did Cari shift from a deficit‑focused approach to neurodiversity‑affirming practices?
22:01–37:47
Speakers
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