Autism Dadcast
av Gaz and Andrew
Barn og familieE · Eksplisitt
Nyeste episode
#51 | Autistic Child Emergency Plan: 72 Hours Without Power
#51 | Autistic Child Emergency Plan: 72 Hours Without Power
Om denne podkasten
An unfiltered, unflinching, and occasionally inappropriate deep dive into the world of autism parenting, from a dad's perspective.
Gaz and Andy are two dads doing this in real time, not experts with a script. Honest conversations about autism and ADHD, diagnosis and assessment, EHCPs and school, meltdowns and sensory overload, and the parts of SEN parenting nobody warns you about.
Support the show at bit.ly/dadcast-support
Episoder
De 20 nyeste av 57 episoder
- #51 | Autistic Child Emergency Plan: 72 Hours Without Power · 1 t 17 min · Episode 51The government says every household should be ready to look after itself for 72 hours. No power, no water, no shops. Easy enough, until you've got a non-verbal autistic child, a…
- #50 | EHCP & SEND Reform: Who Decides It's Overdiagnosis? · 41 minFifty episodes in, and last week we asked for one thing: a party that would put a proper plan for SEND families on the table. This week, one did. Gaz and Andy start with the…
- #49 | Autism Diagnosis: A Two-Year Wait, Unless You Can Pay · 57 min · Episode 49Some families are now facing a two-year minimum wait just to be assessed for autism. Around 295,000 people are on the waiting list in England. A private clinic can do it in…
- #48 | Autism Elopement: "He Will Not Respond To His Name" · 51 min · Episode 48Not the episode we planned to record.This week a three year old went missing from a playground in Suffolk and was found in a pond the next day. He was non-verbal, partially deaf…
- 858 Parents Told Us The Fear They Never Say Out Loud · 50 min · Episode 47Andy put a post up asking autism parents to name the one fear they have never said out loud. 858 people answered, and 103 of them said almost exactly the same thing. So we sat…
- #46 | Robbie Williams & Should Autism Be Split Into Levels? · 53 min · Episode 46Robbie Williams announced at 52 that he is autistic, and said he has "a little bit of autism". Within a day the community had split over the phrasing.Gaz and Andy use it as a way…
- #45 | "He Doesn't Look Autistic" | 685 Parents On The Words That Stuck · 52 min · Episode 45Andy put a video up asking one question: which phrase from a professional never left you? His own was a paediatrician who would not answer whether Lydia was autistic, and instead…
- #44 | Stem Cells & Autism: Hope, Science, or a Very Expensive Gamble? · 1 t 36 min · Episode 44Across the world, parents of autistic children are being offered something that sounds almost miraculous. Clinics promise better speech, better eye contact, calmer behaviour, and…
- #43 | "Where Will They Be When They're 30?" | Jolanta Lasota, Ambitious about Autism · 50 min · Episode 43This week Gaz and Andy sit down with Jolanta Lasota, Chief Executive of Ambitious about Autism, at their college in Isleworth. 16 years leading the charity and mum to a…
- #42 | "I Wouldn't Pay A Penny To Change Him" | Paul Mullin On Albi, Autism & Being A Dad · 45 min · Episode 42Paul Mullin has scored goals in front of millions and become a household name through Welcome to Wrexham. But this one is about the part of his life the cameras rarely catch…
- #41 | How One Wrong Word Can Ruin An Entire Day · 1 t 2 min · Episode 41One missed board and one wrong word at in the morning, and Thomas's whole morning falls apart. This week Gaz and Andy unpack how much detail autistic kids track, why a single…
- #40 | Toilet training, Autism & Gut Health. · 1 t 17 min · Episode 40Every parent of an autistic child has been told the same thing: just take the nappy off and sit them on the toilet. This week Gaz and Andy sit down with Charmaine, a learning…
- #39 | "He Opened The Door And Just Walked Off" · 58 min · Episode 39You can know your child inside out and still be blindsided in the space of a week. This one starts with Thomas opening the front door and wandering off down a hill in a quiet…
- #38 | "What If You Didn't Have to Fight So Hard?" · 1 t 2 min · Episode 38You sit down with the paediatrician. You've got half an hour. You know the first 20 minutes will be you trying to prove your child is different to every other child in that…
- #37 | "The Word That Broke Me in Popeye's" · 1 t 3 min · Episode 37Adam Parkinson came on this week. One of the Two Mr. Ps. Teaching assistant. Podcaster. Dad of two — a 10-year-old daughter and a 7-year-old autistic son called Max. We talked…
- #36 | "Are We Doing As Much As We Can?" · 48 min · Episode 36We ran the London Marathon. We didn't train. We finished it. And then we had a conversation we weren't expecting to have. Halfway through writing this off as a marathon recap…
- #35 | What Mums Wish We Knew · 1 t 45 min · Episode 35We put two sets of questions to the community. One for dads, one for mums. The dads sent seven. The mums sent seventeen. And most of the mums' questions were about how to get…
- #34 | When You Die, Will They Know You Didn't Leave? · 60 min · Episode 34What happens when you die and your child doesn't understand death? What if they just think you walked away? That's where this conversation ended up. It started with a story about…
- #33 | "We Have to Pay to Keep Parenting." · 1 t 0 minWhen your autistic child turns 18, you stop being their parent in the eyes of the law. You have to apply to the Court of Protection, pay £850, wait four months, and hope social…
- #32 | "I Nearly Drove Away and Never Came Back" · 1 t 7 min · Episode 32If you've ever looked at your child mid-meltdown and thought "I can't do this anymore," this one's for you.In this episode, Gaz sits down with his wife Mish for a raw, unfiltered…
