Navigating Neurodiversity
by Arc Southern Chesapeake
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Parent Support Groups: Finding Community While Navigating Autism and…
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About this podcast
Navigating Neurodiversity helps families, caregivers and professionals better support neurodivergent individuals, including those with autism and other intellectual or developmental disabilities. Guided by host Rita Rich, every episode offers actionable advice, inspiring conversations and trusted resources to help you navigate the journey with confidence.
Episodes
The newest 20 of 92 episodes
- Parent Support Groups: Finding Community While Navigating Autism and IDD · 8 min · Episode 92When her son was diagnosed with autism, Elise Horne and her husband didn’t know other families navigating a similar experience. Today, she helps parents and caregivers find the…
- Employment and IDD: How Work Can Build Skills and Confidence · 5 min · Episode 91October is National Disability Employment Awareness Month, and we're celebrating it by sharing real stories of inclusive hiring. A job can offer more than a paycheck for someone…
- Building Independence: Setting Goals and Following Through · 6 min · Episode 90How can setting personal goals help people with intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD) build greater independence? Through the story of Larry Mills, who worked and…
- Medication Management: How DSPs and Caregivers Can Make All the Difference · 14 min · Episode 89Managing medication for someone with intellectual or developmental disabilities can be complicated. Knowing what to look for is extraordinarily important. Kristi Torres of…
- Presuming Competence: Changing How We Think About Autism and Ability · 18 min · Episode 88“My son is not a tragedy.” … For writer, journalist and autism caregiver Kelley Colihan Robertson, supporting her 24-year-old autistic son has meant challenging assumptions about…
- Education, Advocacy and Making Good Trouble · 11 min · Season 3 Episode 87Sarah and Ed Escowitz weren’t afraid to make trouble. That’s why they made history. In Part 2 of our conversation, Sarah reflects on their work building The Arc in Calvert…
- When No Was The Only Answer: Part 1 with one of the earliest Arc leaders Sarah Eskowitz · 14 min · Season 3 Episode 86Sarah Eskowitz recounts raising her son with significant disabilities in 1970s Calvert County, noticing developmental delays and rejecting institutional care in favor of…
- Food Is Medicine: Transforming Group Home Nutrition with My25 · 11 min · Season 3 Episode 85Host Rita Rich interviews Jim Vail, co-creator of My25, about using a meal-planning platform to improve nutrition and health for people with intellectual and developmental…
- Summer, Rights, and Resilience: Olmstead Under Threat · 6 min · Season 3 Episode 84The episode explains the Olmstead Supreme Court decision and a recent Department of Justice opinion that could weaken community living protections, featuring warnings from…
- Inside ARC’s Sensory Room: Serenity, Shaving Cream & a Lava Lamp · 10 min · Episode 83See Me, See My Ability presents a look inside the ARC Southern Maryland’s new sensory room in Lexington Park with Beth Wolfe, the director of nursing. In this episode Beth…
- Building Inclusion: Kayla Carter’s Day Program Revolution · 9 min · Season 3 Episode 82Kayla Carter, director of ARC Southern Maryland’s Waldorf day programs, describes how she creates community partnerships, meaningful volunteer opportunities, and a lively…
- Print It Forward-Assistive Technology and the Arc Southern Maryland · 8 min · Season 3 Episode 81Three-D printers are all the rage and The Arc Southern Maryland is teaching its clients to use them to create assistive technology. Listen as Nora Walker, with the State…
- A Conversation With One of Our Moms, Donna DePamphelis · 11 min · Season 3 Episode 80Hear this conversation with a parent, and a longtime advocate for IDD students in Charles County, Donna DePamphelis, who is being honored next month by the statewide Arc…
- It's Baseball Season in Southern Maryland! Blue Crabs and the Arc Southern MD · 4 min · Season 3 Episode 79At last! It’s Baseball Season! For the past couple of decades that meant that Arc Southern Maryland clients and personal support staff get a field day with members of the…
- From Earth Day to Earthset! 1970-2026 · 13 min · Season 3 Episode 78One of the things that happens during the podcasting classes at the Arc Southern Maryland is that our instructors and staff talk with clients about all sorts of neat things. One…
- Autism Acceptance Month Featuring Victoria Rodriguez-Roldan · 14 min · Season 3 Episode 77Our podcasting class in Prince Frederick hosted the lady in charge of the State of Maryland's Autism Strategy, Victoria Rodriguez-Roldan. She heard some of our participants'…
- St. Patty's Day Lessons for All from the Arc Southern Maryland · 7 min · Season 3 Episode 76Arc Southern Maryland students in Waldorf recently participated in a conversation with podcast host Rita Rich about St. Patrick's Day. Listen as the class talks about being proud…
- Tim Gowen: The Historic Special Olympian from Charles County · 6 min · Season 3 Episode 75Episode 75 of the See Me. See My Ability: The Podcast of The Arc Southern Maryland features a conversation that podcast host Rita Rich had with 77-year-old Tim Gowen and his…
- DD Day Preview with Love & Guyton · 6 min · Season 3 Episode 74Our DD Day preview: Throughout the day on the 18th, podcast host Rita Rich will be filing updates from our state Capital that will be available on the Arc Southern Maryland’s…
- Ronnie Hammond: Don't You Forget About Me · 13 min · Season 3 Episode 73See Me. See My Ability. The Podcast of the Arc Southern Maryland recently talked with Ronnie Hammond, the director of the Maryland office for Statewide Broadband Development. He…
