Written by Lynette Louise aka The Brain Broad! Subscribe with your favorite podcast player Apple Podcasts Android RSS I would like to say this is the only time I have done this show. But unfortunately coming home from a trip to the news that there has been another school shooting is almost becoming common place. Rye and I have spoken on the subject before. But in case you didn’t hear it or in case we have something new to say I invited him to speak with me again. How sad to be able to report tha...
Oct 05, 2015•39 min
Jason Padgett geometric artist and author of Struck By Genius: How a Brain Injury Made Me A Mathematical Marvel went from store clerk with a love of partying to almost dead at the hands of muggers. The brain injury he sustained that day changed his life for the better and the worse. He became a socially anxious OCD ridden parietal lobe dysfunctioned math genius. His parietal lobe challenges are very similar to the challenges of savant autistics with mathematical precision and synesthesia. Subscr...
Sep 21, 2015•57 min
RPM stands for Rapid Prompting Method and describes a fast becoming popular way of teaching verbally challenged children to communicate via stencils/ letter boards and independent typing. It is more recent adaption to facilitated communication originally called supported typing. Subscribe with your favorite podcast player Apple Podcasts Android RSS These methods are seen as controversial so to give it a voice from the people actually benefitting and gaining deeper connections with their children...
Sep 07, 2015•48 min
Karen Kabaki-Sisto , has been a speech language pathologist for over 20 years, primarily helping children with autism. Karen has perfected a unique teaching method and to help people globally, she has converted this method into an iPad therapy tool called “I Can Have Conversations With You!”. Subscribe with your favorite podcast player Apple Podcasts Android RSS As she explains on the show her method targets the communication needs of people with autism who are 6+, talk in sentences and read. So...
Aug 24, 2015•50 min
Tracy Freeman is an Internist specializing in Integrative medicine in Washington District of Columbia. She received her medical degree from Howard University College of Medicine and has been in practice for 17 years. Dr. Freeman is also the mother of an autistic son. (She is also the wife of our previous guest in the Hindsight episode.) Dr. Freeman shares some of her journey and a lot of her knowledge in relation to auto-immune dysfunction as it relates to autism. Get a paper and pen you will wa...
Aug 10, 2015•1 hr 3 min
Tracy Freeman is an Internist specializing in Integrative medicine in Washington DC. She received her medical degree from Howard University College of Medicine and has been in practice for 17 years. Dr. Freeman is also the mother of an autistic son. (She is also the wife of our previous guest in the Hindsight episode.) Dr. Freeman shares some of her journey and a lot of her knowledge in relation to auto-immune dysfunction as it relates to autism. Get a paper and pen you will want to take notes. ...
Aug 10, 2015•1 hr 3 min
Mike Ryan is a certified clinical hyperbaric technologist at Hope Connection in Boston, Massachusetts. He’s been working with families and children at Hope since 2007, when he and 2 other families founded the Hope Connection. And Lynette is thrilled to have him on the show. She has been seeking a professional to answer her questions on hyperbaric for over a year. So of course she has lots of good questions. Subscribe with your favorite podcast player Apple Podcasts Android RSS Fortunately Mike, ...
Jul 27, 2015•48 min
Dr. Paul Thesiger is a surgeon embracing the world of autism that his son introduced him to… Both he and his wife are medical doctors motivated to find a solution to this enigma called autism. Subscribe with your favorite podcast player Apple Podcasts Android RSS Paul explains the severe challenge of dealing with a diagnosis as a moment of grief. Letting go of the dream you had for the child you expected to raise and then falling in love with the one you actually have requires an intentional shi...
Jul 13, 2015•43 min
Reem Mouawad, today’s guest, is the director of FISTA Step Together a residential program for special needs children in Lebanon. The mission of this center is to improve the quality of life for challenged people through individualized therapy and instruction. Subscribe with your favorite podcast player Apple Podcasts Android RSS Lebanon struggles with perpetual states of war and unrest. Special needs children are not well accepted and finding adequate education is difficult. Additionally the edu...
Jun 29, 2015•44 min
Terry and Sue join Lynette for a Father’s Day story and a special gift at the end of the show. Terry and Sue are parents of two sons. One of their son’s has autism. He is a successful early twenties man. This awesome autism story is one of choices and regrets, pride and fear. Terry and Sue freely share their learnings and lay a path for success that other parents can follow. Subscribe with your favorite podcast player Apple Podcasts Android RSS Lynette also shares some science on the gender adva...
Jun 15, 2015•57 min
Wayne Gilpin , President of Future Horizons, joins Lynette Louise The Brain Broad. They discuss the creation and future of Future Horizons. Wayne kindly shares his very personal reasons for building the company and the beautiful memories that keep him going. Several years ago Wayne’s son passed unexpectedly. Since his was the reason for creating an autism focused publishing house it took great courage to continue to run the company. Wayne shares in detail the challenge of staying focused and kee...
Jun 01, 2015•42 min
Lynette’s guest, Dr. Angelica Lemke , is a Naturopathic Doctor, Homeopath and Certified CEASE practitioner who specializes in the treatment of ASD, PANDAS and other chronic childhood ailments using homeopathic medicines. She works in a modern day model using skype with families to find the best matching remedies to heal their child. Lynette, our Brain Broad, also works with whole families. Thus, much of this engagingly interactive conversation is centered around the value of the whole family, wh...
May 18, 2015•54 min
Ned T Sahin PhD is the founder of Brain Power. He has a PhD from Harvard and an MS from MIT. Dr. Sahin won teaching prizes at both and best-dissertation at Harvard. He talks with Lynette about his origins as a tech nerd and how that led to an interest in Neuroscience. His original interest in language production mixed with a technological bent and the desire to make a difference in the daily functioning of challenged individuals led him to dust off his entrepreneurial side and create Brain Power...
May 04, 2015•50 min
Joy Moeller BS RDH is a myofunctional therapist who has been in private practice since 1980. Joy reports feeling that the best treatment of myofunctional disorders happens when working in an interdisciplinary team. “We all know that toxins and epigenetics may play a role in autism, but the team approach may be the best treatment to restore a higher level of health.” Joy says. Subscribe with your favorite podcast player Apple Podcasts Android RSS Joy Moeller is a delightfully informed guest. She ...
Apr 20, 2015•40 min
Journalist Madison Hopkins asks the question “Are girls being diagnosed with autism more or are their numbers actually rising?” Subscribe with your favorite podcast player Apple Podcasts Android RSS Lynette endeavors to answer. Madison is a reporter from San Diego working on a story about the rate of Autism diagnosis in females and the different ways the condition can present itself. Through this article she hopes to provide resources for women who are seeking out credible and straightforward in...
Apr 06, 2015•50 min
Author Rupert Isaacson shares the journey from devastation to proactive choosing after his son Rowan was diagnosed with autism and showed a remarkable affinity for horses. In the documentary and the book (both of which Rupert offers during the GREAT GUEST GIVEAWAY) Rowan, mom and dad travel to Mongolia for horsemanship and Shamanism. What resulted was the remediation of some of Rowan’s more extreme symptoms of autism. Subscribe with your favorite podcast player Apple Podcasts Android RSS What fo...
Mar 23, 2015•52 min
Author of Shattered Masks, Lyman Montgomery III , shares his story. Lyman’s is a story of abuse and sensory confusion. Imagine living in a world where the words people spoke were seen written on walls as well as translated in your ear? Imagine if that world included teachers that abused you and teachers that saved you, a parent that supported you and a stepparent that frightened you? Would you have what it takes to succeed anyway? If it were your child that these things were happening to would y...
Mar 02, 2015•30 min
As Lynette mentioned last episode she is writing a new book for caregivers of people with autism. For this reason she will NOT be interviewing guests for three episodes, this is episode three of that series. Lynette believes that today’s show is the perfect note (and myth to end on) because autistic people DO love! Thus here we are for the last three-episode-time guestless while Lynette presents ideas and observations intended on making their way into her book via transcription. Subscribe with y...
Feb 16, 2015•29 min
As I mentioned last episode I am writing a new book for caregivers of people with autism. For this reason I will NOT be interviewing guests for a few episodes. Instead I will present some of my ideas and observations intended on making their way into my book via transcription. Subscribe with your favorite podcast player Apple Podcasts Android RSS This second of three episodes in my series of teachings focuses on the question “Is self abuse and/or violence inherent in autism or is it us?” I ask t...
Feb 02, 2015•34 min
Hello I am writing a new book for caregivers of people with autism. For this reason I will NOT be interviewing guests for a few episodes. Instead I will present some of my ideas and observations intended on making their way into my book via transcription. Subscribe with your favorite podcast player Apple Podcasts Android RSS In deciding what to talk about asked myself “What is the biggest confusion I repeatedly see in homes around the world related to challenges with skill acquisition and autism...
Jan 19, 2015•44 min
Joining Lynette Louise, The Brain Broad is Douglas Baker a Special Needs Advisor who understands the overwhelming needs and challenges that other families, related businesses and professionals face in the special needs world. Douglas said “I found the information and services surrounding special needs planning, strategy and management disorganized, fragmented, and poorly understood.” And Lynette agreed. Subscribe with your favorite podcast player Apple Podcasts Android RSS According to Douglas s...
Jan 05, 2015•39 min
With the holidays around the corner Lynette invited her past guest Jennifer St Jude to come back and chat about a recent health challenge. The question of how to handle her recent surgery, her and her children’s autism, the cacophony of life and still maintain a holiday spirit is raised and answered. Subscribe with your favorite podcast player Apple Podcasts Android RSS We all deal with the messiness of life while trying to gather and celebrate. But for some these challenges are greater than for...
Dec 22, 2014•53 min
For years, Romina Caruana has investigated autism, analyzing every article that discussed the subject in the hope of understanding what was hidden behind the complex, compromised, and yet deeply joyful personality of her autistic brother. She spent years trying to grasp the sense of it, embarking on spiritual journeys and various types of therapy until she eventually understood that it was not her brother who did not exist, but that it was her. Throughout this journey, a single phrase has touche...
Dec 08, 2014•48 min
Lynette Louise The Brain Broad invites participants from around the world to speak up in honor of ThanksGiving. Subscribe with your favorite podcast player Apple Podcasts Android RSS However – for many reasons – nobody calls in and what was meant to be the voices of many becomes the voice of one. Fortunately the voice is Lynette Louise’s and since she is The Brain Broad traveling around the world to help and heal having her voice speak to many ears is an opportunity to learn with love. Lynette L...
Nov 24, 2014•30 min
Stacey James Wheeler is a Family Dynamics Researcher, speaker and Author of The Stepdad’s Guide: Resolving Family Conflict . He is the founder of Stepdadding.com a site dedicated to helping Stepdads succeed. His older brother Joe is autistic. Stacy is our guest. We talk about family. Subscribe with your favorite podcast player Apple Podcasts Android RSS For a quick change of pace Lynette and Stacy have fun while sharing crazy stories of dealing with the more embarrassing aspects that both deligh...
Nov 10, 2014•47 min
Rachele writes a blog entitled My Puzzling Piece and her subject matter is both personal and relevant. She uses the pen name of Portia. She is a woman who has been struggling to stay alive for many years now. Her story is both inspiring and heart wrenching. This is part two of her two part interview. In fact we were initially only expecting to hear from her once but after the first interview both Lynette and Portia realized she had much more to say. Subscribe with your favorite podcast player Ap...
Oct 27, 2014•51 min
Rachele writes a blog entitled My Puzzling Piece and her subject matter is both personal and relevant. She uses the pen name of Portia. She is a woman who has been struggling to stay alive for many years now. Her story is both inspiring and heart wrenching. Her issues – ironically – like most families of autism despite her deathly challenges. In the end she is a typical mom trying to be there to blend and support her spouse and her son as they attempt to live with neuro difference. Subscribe wit...
Oct 13, 2014•55 min
Vince is upset because his son is being seen as an inconvenience. The neighbors want quiet and his son likes to jump and moan. This father joins the show to share his frustration and seek a community of support. Lynette is a close family friend. Vince received a note of complaint. This is a known occurrence in the world of neighboring with special needs and needs to be stopped. Together Lynette and Vince try to find a new way to deal with this type of ‘neighborly’ behavior. Subscribe with your f...
Sep 29, 2014•53 min
Today Lynette Louise aka The Brain Broad interviews her grandson and helpmate, Jory Shelton, about what it is like to assist in the care of a low functioning uncle with autism. Subscribe with your favorite podcast player Apple Podcasts Android RSS Jory Shelton grew up with his uncle ‘ Dar ’. But what makes this show fascinating is the story of how, several years ago, when he was still a teenager, he decided to relocate and become an assistant to his ‘Dramma’ Lynette Louise. The deal was that Jor...
Sep 15, 2014•45 min
Some recent developments in Lynette’s life brought renewed energy into her passion for speaking out. Some of those things are shared in this interesting episode. Lynette begins by reading some comments that a Facebook post generated. It was wonderful to see people sharing their experience of autism with such information rich candor. It was wonderful to have sparked the conversation. Subscribe with your favorite podcast player Apple Podcasts Android RSS Then Bridget DiRico who is a mother two chi...
Sep 01, 2014•59 min
