a podcast about neurodiversity and human rights
I had such a great conversation with artist and teacher Stephane Hartl about parenting autistic children in a world that wasn’t built for them. How do parents manage a new diagnosis, advocate at school and navigate the transition to adulthood? What needs to shift in our society—and how can we help to shift it?
Listen by playing the audio file below, or on streaming sites like Spotify, Stitcher or ApplePodcasts.
Read the transcript, below the audio.
Transcript coming soon!
While the podcast is on a brief hiatus as I finish my book (yay!), I’m sharing this interview that Shawn Pickard hosted with me for Voices for Abilities radio. We discussed how Canadian autism policy needs to move from a charity perspective to a rights perspective and how the inclusion and neurodiversity movements are working for the changes that autistic people & families need.
Listen to the podcast by playing the audio file below, or on streaming sites like Spotify, Stitcher or ApplePodcasts.
Bio
Anne Borden King is a Toronto-based podcaster, writer and human rights advocate. Her work has appeared in the New York Times, Healthy Debate, FactKeepers and Thinking Person’s Guide to Autism, among other publications. She is the host of Noncompliant, a popular podcast about neurodiversity. A co-founder of Autistics for Autistics, the Canadian autistic self-advocacy organization, she has presented before the United Nations and the Canadian Senate among others, on autism policy.
Her upcoming book, The Children Do Not Consent: The search for autism’s “cure”—and the kids who pay the cost will be published in 2023.
Today’s guest is Oswin Latimer, co-founder of Foundations for Divergent Minds, a framework designed by autistic and neurodivergent people for use by families and professionals. FDM works on the principle that when a child struggles it is because their surroundings need to be adjusted–and assessment should find what is missing from their environment. FDM is a portable, affordable approach that is based on equity and access –and in the short time since its launch, it has disrupted the autism services market in a brilliant way, as we discuss in the podcast!
Listen to the full podcast at the audio link below or on Stitcher here or on iTunes here
Read the transcript, below the audio link.
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Transcript by Julie Ann Lee: Transcribed_Noncompliant_Oswin_Latimer
Bio
Oswin Latimer is an indigenous, non-binary, Autistic adult, parent to 3 neurodivergent children and a disability advocate. Oswin is a founder of Foundations For Divergent Minds, which we will focus on in this episode. Prior to founding Foundations for Divergent Minds, Oswin was Director of Community Engagement with the Autistic Self Advocacy Network (ASAN) and in addition to activist and education projects there, they represented the autistic community to policymakers in the US Departments of Labor, Education, Personnel Management and others.
After leaving ASAN, Oswin spent several years as a disability consultant, advising parents on ways to set up their homes and create individualized education plans that better met their child’s needs. They also compiled and edited Navigating College: A Handbook on Self Advocacy Written for Autistic Students from Autistic Adults, among other projects.