Autism Mastermind

Music is such an important part of life. Music can help to improve communication, social skills, and motor skills. It can also help to reduce stress and anxiety. And it can even help to improve cognitive function.

Stephen Flinn is a true professional who has been teaching for over three decades and has given over 25,00 drum and piano lessons, and facilitated over 2,000 special needs percussion ensemble classes.

Piano and percussion lessons with an emphasis on positive communication, social skills, and academic concepts.

Piano: Teaching piano using an alternative notation system that makes it much easier for the student to read than standard notation. The lessons are designed for cognitive development, ocular motor strengthening, fine motor strengthening, and social skills. The lessons are big fun too!

Percussion: These lessons are successful in addressing cognitive, emotional, and physical goals. Through inventive multi-sensory exercises the lessons teach and enhance skills such as maintaining focus, using memory, sequencing, reading, laterality, recognition and use of numbers, spatial awareness, fine and gross motor coordination, following instructions, and positive communication.

Through a perceptual motor match: VISUAL, TACTILE, and AUDITORY combined with speech (good for not yet verbal students too), the student sees the lessons, feels it, and hears it as they say the answers out loud. It is this redundancy of information that provides positive results.

Recording Artist for the following labels: Creative Sources Recordings, Nine Winds Records, Hypermodern, Lizard Records, Soleilmoon Recordings, Pax Recordings, Experimental Music Research, Reify Recordings, pfMENTUM, Edgetone Records, Inexhaustible Recordings.
Composer, performer, and improviser who performs throughout Europe, Japan, and the United States.

www.specialneedsmusic.com 

www.drumlessonsforautism.com

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Thank you Debbie for joining us on the podcast and sharing your story. Wow, we learned so much and so will you listeners. Debbie shed’s light on the lesser known infections in our bodies that are often overlooked. 

Debbie Kimberg, is a busy mother of three boys and an executive in the financial service industry. She has spent the past seven years helping her children and herself recover from ASD, ADHD, and other psychiatric issues caused by stealth infections that were overlooked by traditional medicine. She also works with multiple Lyme foundations and is an administrator of multiple Facebook groups on Tick-borne Diseases, PANS, and autism. You can follow her son, Sammy’s, journey on Instagram and TikTok at @HijackedBrains

For more information on Debbie’s forthcoming book:

https://debbiekimberg.com/

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We chat about our summer experiences and share tips to get you started and keep you going this summer and years to come. 

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A must do workshop offered by the amazing Wendy Smith! This workshop is very important and we highly recommend it. This workshop series helps families develop a life plan for a family member with a disability. Now offered online. 

I (Malinda) will tell you from experience, this is one of the best workshops I have taken. 

Thank you Wendy for joining us. 

https://www.guidinghands.org/services/life-planning/

Wendy Smith 

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Phone:619-938-2876

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Tracy Slepcevic is an Author, Certified Integrative Health Coach, Keynote Speaker, Air Force Veteran, and the founder of Pur Health, LLC. She is educated in the field of Complementary and Alternative Medicine and has dedicated over 14 years to researching various treatments and therapies for individuals with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD). Over the years, she has worked with various doctors, scientists, advocates, and researchers, and she has made it her mission to educate families on the importance of living a healthy lifestyle.

Find out more here, plus book tour events: https://warriormom.org/

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Thank you for joining us on the podcast Andria! 

Andria is a Mom, Educational Assistant & behavioal interventionist, living in Canada. She shares her diagnosis story and journey thus far with her son on the autism spectrum. 

Link to the journal: Journal To Advocate For Autism

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What happens when our kids turn 18+? Let’s discuss our experiences.

Also... Happy Birthday Paige!

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Community Transition Academy (CTA) is a nonprofit, 501(c)3 charitable organization that focuses on providing individuals with developmental disabilities skills they need to live in a more inclusive community while leading by example, true all-ability community inclusion. The Academy is a community and classroom-based, non-public transition high school (NPS) for teens and emerging young adults with developmental disabilities. 

Community Transition Academy offers a uniquely individualized transition curriculum taught both in the classroom and in the community infused with the evidence-based principles of Applied Behavioral Analysis (ABA). CTA's school schedule is unique. CTA operates on a modified year-round school year schedule which includes an Extended School Year (ESY). 

Community Connection Project is a community-based adult transition program which focuses on providing supported, integrated, community experiences for individuals with significant communication and behavioral challenges. CCP provides natural opportunities for our program participants to discover what they want to do in their adult lives and develop and practice skills to make these choices a reality. 

More information: https://www.communitytransition.org/

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Thank you Laura for sharing your story with us!

https://oliscookiescompany.com/

My story started a little over four years ago when I got the news that my son had low functioning Autism Spectrum Disorder. 

That day, I cried and grieved over all of the plans and ideas that I had imagined for his future. 

I dove deep into trying to understand the world of Autism and how I would best raise Oliver.

Soon after his diagnosis, I left my job as a chef and began my journey as a full time caregiver to him.

Over these last few years we have made so many new friends that have loved, guided and supported us along our journey. I am incredibly grateful that my eyes have been opened to a community of so many special people with similar disabilities. I believe Oliver is thriving!

He is a very sweet and loving boy. I was told years ago to teach him to read and expose him to as much as possible. So that’s what I do. We do things like soccer, swimming, baseball, surfing, cooking, traveling, art, community gatherings and much more.

As busy as I am with Oli, I have never stopped baking. It is my outlet for stress and anxiety and it’s a way that I can express and share my love with people.

I have been baking and sharing these amazing Plant Based Chocolate Chip cookies for over 3 years. I have finally decided to start packaging and selling them. It is my goal to continue to expose Oliver to many new adventures and help him thrive in life while spreading Autism awareness and acceptance one delicious cookie at a time.

https://oliscookiescompany.com/

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Vanessa and Malinda share updates on school progress and upcoming happenings. Thank you friends! for the continued  support :) We really appreciate you listening to the podcast. 

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