RDI stands for Relationship Development Intervention. Subscribe with your favorite podcast player Apple Podcasts Android RSS For the past fifteen years Dr. Rachelle Sheely has been a leader in the development and logistical implementation of programs for both families and professionals working with children, adolescents and adults with developmental disabilities. She serves as the President of RDIconnect as well as the head of professional training and supervision. Dr. Sheely shares the back sto...
Jan 16, 2017•43 min
Shelley Pack is a comedic actress, writer and producer. One of her life passions is working with children who have a diagnosis of autism as well as other special needs. She uses her talents to bring attention to the possibilities and beauty of difference. Her short movie about Dash Chandler came to Lynette’s attention and impressed her with its simplicity and message. Together Shelley and Lynette discuss the joy of helping and producing film in an effort to share the beauty and possibility of th...
Jan 02, 2017•44 min
Trina Rice , is an OT which means is an Occupational Therapist . She works with autism and is the owner of Harmony Therapeutics, LLC. As a Facilitator & Coach, International Speaker & Best Selling Author, Trina has the capacity to create a space of no judgment, allowing what you may have thought of as your broken pieces to be re-experienced as your hidden jewels. Trina, like Lynette Louise our Brain Broad, has the ability to look beyond labels, limitations, disabilities, diagnoses or def...
Dec 19, 2016•46 min
Christy Goldstein , is a life, relationship, & sex coach from Columbus, Ohio. Her new book Dating While Disabled , is just as it sounds: a self help dating book focused on assisting people with an illness achieve or improve their dating lives. It will be released February 14, 2017. Subscribe with your favorite podcast player Apple Podcasts Android RSS Christy herself has an illness which is her term for disability. Christy has the inherited disorder known as Ehlers-Danlos , which is a connec...
Dec 05, 2016•38 min
Alex Lehmann was writing a movie with a character on the autism spectrum. He was uninformed and looking for a real connection when he saw a newspaper clipping about a comedy troupe composed of four members with Asperger’s. They called themselves, Asperger’s Are Us . Intrigued he decided to meet them. And the rest, as they say, is history. Subscribe with your favorite podcast player Apple Podcasts Android RSS Lynette and Alex discuss the myths that were made evident during the making of this docu...
Nov 21, 2016•44 min
Sandi Johnson has been on the show before. Sandi, a children’s author and songwriter , has been friends with Lynette since 1994. When she first met Lynette autism was a foreign word and she had no idea her life would also one day revolve around the spectrum of autism. Subscribe with your favorite podcast player Apple Podcasts Android RSS Sandi’s son was murdered several years ago, leaving Sandi to raise his autistic son. Sandi’s daughter also has an autistic child. Life is different now. The las...
Nov 07, 2016•42 min
Today’s guest never showed up so Lynette’s son Rye stepped in to answer some questions in her stead. It is a great opportunity to hear from a middle aged independent man some of the challenges and reasons behind his behavior as a child and young adult. Subscribe with your favorite podcast player Apple Podcasts Android RSS Rye and Lynette discuss his childhood and his schooling. Rye has done many jobs and run his own lawn mowing business for many years. He is also ALWAYS trying something new. In ...
Oct 24, 2016•30 min
Therese Davis is a mother, writer, and advocate for people with disabilities. She is featured in the documentary film, “ Bass Clef Bliss: Terrence’s Path ;” and is a contributor to the curriculum, “Autism Is: The Interactive Experience.” Subscribe with your favorite podcast player Apple Podcasts Android RSS Therese Davis is also a co winner of the People of Distinction Humanitarian Award. Because of their great works in the world of Autism both Lynette and Therese received the humanitarian award...
Oct 10, 2016•50 min
Ange Anderson is the head teacher at a special school and writer of several articles and children’s books. Her article on Lego ® Based Therapy and children with Autism caught Lynette Louise aka The Brain Broad’s attention and led to today’s fascinating episode. . Subscribe with your favorite podcast player Apple Podcasts Android RSS Ange Anderson shares her unstoppable creativity and wealth of knowledge on therapeutic interventions with Lynette who is – rightly- blown away. It is a show for hitt...
Sep 26, 2016•42 min
Today’s guest is the daughter every parent wants. Tamis Barron is both a supportive daughter, and a proactive one. For example in an attempt to make her father’s last years joyous she has gone above and beyond, sharing her time, attention and finances. An out of the box thinker Tamis bought her dad a car he cannot drive and that was a GREAT idea. She also created an event he couldn’t comprehend, until he did. Proving that this was also a great idea. Subscribe with your favorite podcast player Ap...
Aug 22, 2016•36 min
Today’s guest is rightly referred to as ‘ Wish Man ’. Frank Shankwitz shares the back story on the events that led to him founding The Make A Wish Foundation . Subscribe with your favorite podcast player Apple Podcasts Android RSS He was awarded an honorary Doctor of public services from Ohio State University in 2015 because his life exemplifies the term ‘being of service.” Lynette was once a wished for Make A Wish gift and the story of that child’s desires and blessings is weaved into this most...
Aug 08, 2016•40 min
Betty Perper Jarusiewicz PhD LCADC is the Founder, Principal Investigator/CEO, Program Director, A tlantic Family Wellness Center, and more. Dr. Jarusiewicz is a reputable and well-established neurofeedback professional. Subscribe with your favorite podcast player Apple Podcasts Android RSS Betty Jarusiewicz, PhD was the first doctor to investigate the use of neurofeedback with autism in a research setting. Her Pilot study was instrumental in setting the field of neurofeedback upon the path of o...
Jul 25, 2016•51 min
Ginger Taylor is the mom of a child with autism. She is the co-author and contributing editor of V accine Epidemic: How Corporate Greed Biased Science and Coercive Government Threaten Our Human Rights Our Health and Our Children and has been honored with the Health Freedom Hero Award. Subscribe with your favorite podcast player Apple Podcasts Android RSS As a Johns Hopkins graduate in Marriage and Family therapy Ginger is a font of knowledge and understanding. Hearing her child’s story of autism...
Jul 11, 2016•46 min
Nicole Humphreys Wright is the mom of several and the author of Happy Friends ! Subscribe with your favorite podcast player Apple Podcasts Android RSS She joins Lynette to discuss at some length the process of making friends by teaching kindness. Lynette and Nicole defines kindness as it refers to Nicole’s son with autism. The show shares concepts and actual teaching mechanisms for wandering, friendship and step-by-step learning on the subject of being kind. Sometimes parents are the best source...
Jun 20, 2016•39 min
This is a show for parents and especially for Dad’s. Lynette and her guest have similar outlooks and a similar approach to connecting with children. Aaron DeLand has created an online support site that shows and teaches how to help your child’s development. Aaron is perfect for today’s show because not only is he a developmental play specialist focused on helping families with children on the autism spectrum, dedicated to helping families live happier more connected lives, he is also a very prou...
Jun 06, 2016•40 min
Autistically Inclined is the name of the website run by Julie Sando the creator of NPT (Natural Play Therapy)! Subscribe with your favorite podcast player Apple Podcasts Android RSS Lynette Louise and Julie trained together in the Son-Rise method. After becoming certified they moved on to incorporate other ideas and build their own personal play therapy style. They have a mutual respect for each others approach and have remained connected through the mission of helping special needs children and...
May 23, 2016•40 min
Extra Special Teas is a Brand New Tea House created in an Extra Special Way for Extra Special People! Subscribe with your favorite podcast player Apple Podcasts Android RSS Cherri and Scott Sanes are the proprietors but this is truly a community endeavor. Inspired by the needs of their nonverbal son Jake who has grown out of the educational system they wanted to create something special that would help others embrace the special population that is so commonly overlooked. This Extra Special Tea H...
May 02, 2016•39 min
Thomas D’Eri is co-Founder of Rising Tide a Carwash that employs spectrum individuals. His brother is one of their star employees. Tom and his Gutsy Dad are dedicated to building an organization that shows the world how autism is a valuable diversity for business rather than a disability that requires sympathy. Subscribe with your favorite podcast player Apple Podcasts Android RSS Tom is an Unreasonable Fellow and that is a good thing. Lynette and Tom dig into the subject of value and business a...
Apr 18, 2016•37 min
Jeffrey Miller is known as The Hypnotic Interventionist Serving in the area of Human Needs Psychology Hypnosis, NLP, and Strategic Interventionist. After having launched an Empowering Program “ 21 Days To Change…Your Mind ” that helps people dealing With Low Self Esteem Jeff has taken the Program International. ALSO: He is the Founder and Leader in a Dynamic Group of Collaborative Experts, The Inter Active Media Network aka/ The I AM Network. Subscribe with your favorite podcast player Apple Pod...
Apr 04, 2016•54 min
Trez Ibrahim has been a high school special education teacher for the past 15 years working with teens identified as having a learning disability, emotional disability, autism or autistic like behavior and intellectual disability. She is also the founder and CEO of A+ Education Consulting and Life Mastery Solution where she works with individuals, schools and corporations to assist them in achieving high standards and accomplishing more than they ever could before. Subscribe with your favorite p...
Mar 21, 2016•53 min
Cindy Mayhew is a go getter. Mother of five she found marital love and acceptance through loving and accepting her son DJ. Author of That’s My D.J . Cindy has managed to get the attention of Hollywood simply by “showing up”. Subscribe with your favorite podcast player Apple Podcasts Android RSS D.J. is Cindy’s middle son. Minimally verbal DJ is her shining light and the subject of her book. Lynette and Cindy talk about autism yes, and the sibling benefits when raising a child with autism yes, as...
Mar 07, 2016•39 min
Today Lynette Louise and Patrick Bertagna try to solve – at least in part – the problem of falling off the cliff of services and support that is all too familiar to families of adults with autism. The Subject of safety and support is a common one especially for non to minimally verbal adults. Often they are mistaken for unable rather than differently abled so families stop asking for growth and keep them home, or in a home. However, staying indoors reduces skills and does not invite progress thr...
Feb 29, 2016•43 min
Today is one long family story from the past. Subscribe with your favorite podcast player Apple Podcasts Android RSS When Lynette was a young mom of eight children she often helped them learn using unorthodox methods that caused a stir and brought cameras to her door. As a result three different documentarians attempted to capture her family’s dynamics, recently Lynette was combing through old footage and saw, how she used to look. It is an interesting thing to recognize that how you believe you...
Feb 08, 2016•35 min
Jake Rush was diagnosed with Asperger’s at eleven years of age. He is presently a twenty-two year old senior at the University of Southern California where he is majoring in Acting in the School of Dramatic Arts and a Comedy Minor from the School of Cinematic Arts. Subscribe with your favorite podcast player Apple Podcasts Android RSS Jake’s preesent passion and future plans though revolve around Stand-up comedy. He has performed at many clubs with his favorite being The Comedy Store. Lynette Lo...
Jan 11, 2016•44 min
OMG Get ready to laugh and cry and say “What?” This show is fast paced, funny and full of ANSWERS! Howard Meehan of The Meehan Brother’s joins the share to share his experience of renting a room from Lynette Louise in a house full of Fantastic Craziness and FUN! Subscribe with your favorite podcast player Apple Podcasts Android RSS If you are looking for a reason to believe that Autism has a socially connected upside this is the show for you. Howard and Lynette have so much rapport and so much t...
Dec 28, 2015•45 min
Today Lynette spends time with Cynthia Kerson PhD of Marin Biofeedback and Brain Science International. Cynthia is a neurofeedback, biofeedback, QEEG and professor extraordinaire. She also has a brother with autism. Subscribe with your favorite podcast player Apple Podcasts Android RSS Cynthia’s brother didn’t speak until he was twelve and now speaks nonstop. Cynthia and her brother are great friends. Her love for him is evident in her tone as she shares stories of growing up dealing with the ch...
Dec 14, 2015•41 min
It is the day after Thanksgiving 2015. The world is a mess and the autism rates in the USA have skyrocketed to 1 in 45. Subscribe with your favorite podcast player Apple Podcasts Android RSS Lynette takes a minute to explain how to change the trend by embracing, including and no longer segregating. In her stories she shares examples of how segregation in each faction of our community, country and world negatively impact autism. Lynette is the only guest and she offers a limitless number of “ Mir...
Nov 30, 2015•18 min
Are meltdowns and the desire to die part of the spectrum experience? Or is it just this man’s dilemma? Or is it something created by the interplay between wants and abilities and societal demands? Subscribe with your favorite podcast player Apple Podcasts Android RSS This is not the usual positive Spin of A New Spin On Autism: ANSWERS! But it is enlightening and possibly extremely important. David Merrill Gill is a musician/recording artist with one album to his credit ‘ Water Of Life ’. David i...
Nov 16, 2015•44 min
Travis Breeding is the prolific author of 30 books: Quite an accomplishment for someone with Autism and Schizophrenia. Travis meets his challenges head on and lobbies for change by writing and speaking out on stages and via Youtube . His newest memoir ‘Voices of Self Destruction” revolves around his journey with autism and schizophrenia. Subscribe with your favorite podcast player Apple Podcasts Android RSS During the show Lynette and Travis discuss in depth the challenges he faces getting socia...
Nov 02, 2015•53 min
Chance Shelton has come a long way in his journey to success; much of that journey was guided by Lynette Louise, our show host. However, most of Chance’s success in life was due to his determination and self-driven desire to become a better man. This is a desire Lynette sees as common in special needs members of society. It is extremely common and very strong in individuals from the autism community BEFORE we teach it out of them. Subscribe with your favorite podcast player Apple Podcasts Androi...
Oct 19, 2015•44 min
