Tag: transcript

Episode 48. A journey to transform special education: Catching up with Guy Stephens at Alliance Against Seclusion & Restraint

~ a4aontario
Image courtesy of the Alliance Against Seclusion & Restraint

I was honoured to speak with the amazing Guy Stephens, founder of the Alliance Against Seclusion & Restraint about what’s new in human rights advocacy for autistic &  developmentally disabled students.

AASR has a groundbreaking new program, Reframing Behaviour, in partnership with the Crisis Prevention Institute, rolling out across America–neuroscience-based training for educators to eliminate seclusion & stop the traumatization of our special ed students. 

Listen to the podcast by playing the audio file below, or on streaming sites like  Spotify,   ApplePodcasts,  Pandora, etc

Read the podcast transcript below the audio file.


Transcript: NCP_Transcript_Guy Stephens

Bio
Guy Stephens is one of the best-known parent advocates in our community. Through his work at AASR, he has been helping to inform changes in policy and practice to reduce and eliminate the use of restraint and seclusion in schools and other settings. Guy promotes trauma-informed, neuroscience-aligned, collaborative approaches to working with kids–and in just a few years he’s led AASR to become a leader in the field, presenting their work across North America with groundbreaking education for educators, as well as toolkits for parents. Guy also currently serves on the board of directors for The Arc of Maryland and PDA North America.

Links
Reframing Behaviour: Neuroscience-based Training for Educators

More about the Reframing Behaviour program 

Alliance Against Seclusion & Restraint: Parent Guide

 

 

Episode 45. Willowbrook, whistleblowers & human rights: Carl Elliott on his new book, The Occasional Human Sacrifice

~ a4aontario

Professor Carl Elliott’s new book The Occasional Human Sacrifice, is about whistleblowers in medicine. In this episode, we discuss the whistleblowers at Willowbrook, a residential institution for autistic and developmentally disabled people that was exposed for human rights abuses in 1972. We also talk about the experience of being a whistleblower and its impact on mental health, as well as strategies for reporters and whistleblowers.

Listen to the podcast by playing the audio file below, or on streaming sites like Spotify,  ApplePodcasts, Pandora, etc 

Read the transcript, below the audio.

 

Cw for institution survivors: Abuses in residential institutions discussed at 5:30-11:05 and 32:45-37:03

Transcript: Transcript_Carl Elliott_Noncompliant Podcast

Bio
Carl Elliott is a professor in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Minnesota. He’s a native of Clover, South Carolina, where his father was a family doctor and his mother was a librarian. Before moving to Minnesota, he taught at McGill University in Montreal. Among the awards he has received for his work are a Guggenheim Fellowship, a National Endowment for the Humanities Public Scholar Award, and the Maguire Chair in Ethics and American History at the US Library of Congress.

Resources
The Occasional Human Sacrifice: Medical Experimentation and the Price of Saying No, by Carl Elliott (W W Norton)

Former residents of Willowbrook recall its horrors as fight for disability rights continues. Times Union. March 27, 2023.

Willowbrook State School. Wikipedia.

Stop the Shock at Judge Rotenberg Center: Action Alerts. Autistic Self Advocacy Network (US).