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Supporting Regulation From the Inside Out: What Parents Should Know About Gut Health, Inflammation, and the Nervous System
Supporting Regulation From the Inside Out: What Parents Should Know About Gut Health, Inflammation, and the Nervous System

As parents, it’s natural to look for answers when your child continues to struggle with regulation, sleep, energy, or emotional balance. Learn how the gut–brain connection and nervous system regulation are interconnected — and what parents should know.

Why Community Matters: How Connection Helps Families Raising Autistic Children Thrive
Why Community Matters: How Connection Helps Families Raising Autistic Children Thrive

Community can be life-changing for families raising neurodivergent children—but many parents don’t know where to start. In this episode, Brian and autistic advocate Mandy Pinkley explore how connection reduces isolation, why online spaces matter, and how parents can build the support systems they wish existed. Whether you live in a big city or a small town, this conversation offers hope, validation, and practical encouragement.

How Peers Can Be Better Advocates for Autistic Friends
How Peers Can Be Better Advocates for Autistic Friends

Inclusion isn’t just about sharing space—it’s about feeling wanted. In this episode recap, autistic advocate Mandy shares powerful insights on friendship, peer advocacy, boundaries, and how small shifts in empathy can create truly inclusive communities for autistic individuals.

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The Autism Family Resource Podcast

If you’ve ever felt overwhelmed navigating therapy, school systems, behaviors, or sensory challenges, this podcast was created for you.

Across our episodes, we explore:

• Communication strategies, including functional AAC
• Regulation, sensory routines, and executive functioning
• Feeding, mental health, and puberty conversations
• School advocacy, IEPs, and insurance planning
• Safety topics like elopement and community supports
• Sibling support and navigating family changes
• Autistic voices sharing lived experience and advocacy
• Products, apps, and resources families can use right away

You’ll hear from autistic adults, parents, clinicians, and advocates offering real perspective, practical tools, and genuine encouragement.

Whether you’re newly navigating a diagnosis or years into the journey, you’ll leave feeling more informed, more confident, and less alone.

You’ll leave feeling more informed, more confident, and less alone

Practical, neurodiversity-affirming conversations to support families navigating autism, ADHD, sensory differences, and school systems.

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Unleash the Power of Communication: AAC Strategies and Joyful Learning

AAC doesn’t have to be overwhelming or clinical—it can be playful, powerful, and part of everyday life. In this inspiring episode of the Autism Family Resource Podcast, SLPs Stacey Dover and Lydia Mackay share how to make communication with AAC devices joyful, effective, and rooted in connection.

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Empowering Communication: The benefits of a communication device

Not all communication is verbal—and for non-speaking children, AAC devices can be life-changing. In Part 1 of our AAC podcast series, SLPs Lydia Mackay and Stacey Dover explain what AAC is, how language develops, and how families can support meaningful communication from the very beginning.

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