Mother's Guide Through Autism

Send us Fan Mail In this week's informative and insightful episode, Brigitte interviews Joye Newman, author of Growing an In-Sync Child, about the importance of movement for children to become more confident and competent in everything they do. Joye Newman is the co-author (with Carol Kranowitz) of the best-selling book, Growing an In-Sync Child: Simple, Fun Activities to Help Every Child Dev...

Send us Fan Mail In this week's highly informative and powerfully enlightening episode, Brigitte speaks to Patricia Lemer, author of Outsmarting Autism, about the power of vision, which might be the missing link for the structural issues many children and adults with autism have.  Patricia Lemer is a Licensed Professional Counselor, and practiced as an educational diagnostician in the Washing...

Send us Fan Mail In this week's information-packed episode, Brigitte interviews Dr. Will Cole about the functional medicine approach to autism. Dr. Will Cole, IFMCP, DNM, DC, is a leading functional medicine expert who consults people around the world via webcam and locally in Pittsburgh. Named one of the top 50 functional medicine and integrative doctors in the nation, Dr. Cole specializes i...

Send us Fan Mail In this week's highly informative episode, Brigitte interviews Carol Stock Kranowitz who is an author of a groundbreaking book The Out-of-Sync Child about Sensory Processing Disorder. They discuss what Sensory Processing Disorder is, how it affects children in different ways, and which therapies can help them manage their sensory issues. Carol, a former teacher, introduced Se...

Send us Fan Mail In this week's episode, Brigitte Shipman interviews Dr. Michelle Trias to talk about the importance of self-care for all mothers but especially for autism moms. Dr. Michelle Trias is a graduate from the University of Central Florida and completed her Doctorate in traditional naturopathy from the New Eden School of Natural Health and Herbal studies. She is passionate about hel...

Send us Fan Mail Brigitte Shipman and her son Joseph continue the conversation on Joseph's postsecondary life and share their lessons and insight they gained from the experience. Joseph is a 28-year old who is an adult on the autism spectrum and offers his perspective on what the transition into adulthood was like. He talks about "Indecision Paralysis" that he often found himself in...

Send us Fan Mail In this week's episode, Brigitte Shipman and her son Joseph candidly talk about the life after postsecondary education. Joseph who is a 28-year old living with autism shares his experience of going through a period of trial and error trying to figure out what he wanted to do with his life. He talks about being put on academic probation at a community college from failing clas...

Send us Fan Mail In this week's informative episode, Brigitte interviews Sarah Kennedy who is a certified life coach for parents and supporters of LGBTQIA+ youth as well as an occupational therapist specializing in sensory integration. In addition to having two children on the autism spectrum, Sarah herself was diagnosed with autism as an adult and has sensory processing challenges and brings...

Send us Fan Mail In this special episode of Mother's Guide Through Autism, Brigitte Shipman and her son Joseph Shipman celebrate the one year anniversary of the podcast. They share their reflection and insight they gained in the last year from creating and producing this podcast together as well as their hope for the future. Make sure to tune in till the end to learn how to enter the FREE giv...

Send us Fan Mail In this week's insightful episode, Brigitte Shipman interviews Lorraine Murray, the founder of the Connected Kids program, who has been practicing meditation for over 30 years and has been teaching it since 2003. She started teaching meditation to kids and teens to give young people skills to reduce stress, anxiety, and to build their self-esteem. She is the author of two bes...

Send us Fan Mail In this week's informative episode, Brigitte Shipman interviews Nancy Kling, the founder and director of Behavior Plus who has worked with children with challenging behavior since 1992. Nancy has extensive training and experience with autism spectrum disorders and a wide variety of behavior issues. She is an author of the book The Cup Kid: Parenting a Child with Meltdowns. Sh...

Send us Fan Mail In this week's episode of Mother's Guide Through Autism, Brigitte Shipman interviews Alicia Trautwein who is the creator of The Mom Kind, writer, advocate, motivational speaker, and mom of three autistic children. On her blog The Mom Kind, she shares the ups and downs of raising three autistic children while being on the autism spectrum herself, along with providing valu...

Send us Fan Mail In this week's informative episode, Brigitte interviews Victoria Boone, a Board Certified Behavior Analyst, best selling author, and behavior consultant for families of children with various special needs including autism. Victoria is also the founder and Executive Director of The Hamilton Center, an ABA agency dedicated to helping individuals improve the quality of their liv...

Send us Fan Mail In this week's wonderfully enlightening episode, Brigitte interviews Madeleine Woolgar, a speaker and coach, who helps moms go from burned-out to energized and clear. Madeleine began to work with families over ten years ago and has worked internationally in home-based play therapy programs. While having the honor of living with these tenacious, loving families, she saw that t...

Send us Fan Mail In this week's episode, Brigitte Shipman had the pleasure of speaking with Marissa Scott who is a Board Certified Music Therapist, Certified Labor Doula, Owner & Executive Director at The Sonatina Center for Creative Arts Therapy in New Hampshire.  Marissa shares her journey of becoming a music therapist after realizing that she could combine her love of music with workin...

Send us Fan Mail 2In this week's episode, Brigitte interviews Kate Wilde, the Director of Global Outreach for The Autism Treatment Center of America who has spent the last 28 years working with children and adults on the autism spectrum and their families as well as therapists, educators, and schools. She is the author of Autistic Logistics and The Autism Language Launcher and she shares some...

Send us Fan Mail In this week's episode, Brigitte Shipman talks about the difficulty of dealing with judgment from others and how to use self-compassion to work through it. Brigitte knows from her own experience and hearing from other mother guides that judgment is something you deal with on a regular basis. You might feel it at the supermarket when your child is having a tantrum or from a fr...

Send us Fan Mail In this week's inspiring episode, Brigitte Shimpan interviews Kristy Newstrom who offers therapeutic riding for children and adults with special needs (or functional diversity) and is a founder of Divine Equine Assisted Therapy Center and PATH certified instructor. Kristy shares her deep passion for working with horses and children with functional diversity. She has worked pr...

Send us Fan Mail In this week's highly informative episode, Brigitte Shipman interviews Dr. Jed Baker who is a clinical psychologist and director of the Social Skills Training Project, a private organization serving individuals with autism and social communication problems. Dr. Baker is an award-winning author of eight books including The Social Skills Picture Book, The Social Skills Picture...

Send us Fan Mail In this week's episode, Brigitte Shipman offers you 3 powerful practices you can do for self-connection and social connection so that you can start to feel lighter, inspired, and be more present for your child with autism. When there's a lot of stress going on with the challenges and reality of being an autism mom along with what's going on with COVID19, it's e...

Send us Fan Mail In this week's episode, Brigitte Shipman gives you tools to move through the resistance that you may be having to exercise so that you can have better moods, better focus, better attention span, and better care for your child during this uncertain time. We all know exercise is good for us but it's so easy for us to sit on a couch, eat potato chips, and binge-watch Netfli...

Send us Fan Mail In this week's episode, Brigitte Shipman shares 3 simple but powerful tools to help you stay calm and release anxiety during these uncertain times of Coronavirus. Living through this time of Coronavirus pandemic is challenging for all of us but it is even more difficult and challenging for mothers raising children with autism. Life was already pretty challenging for autism mo...

Send us Fan Mail In this week's episode, Brigitte Shipman shares 3 tools she used to help her son Joseph on the spectrum when he was younger so that you can apply and benefit from these tools as you are adjusting to the new reality and creating a new routine for your child with autism and for your whole family. We are all struggling right now and even more so for families living with autism....

Send us Fan Mail In this week's heartwarming episode, Brigitte Shipman interviews Lisa Joyce Goes who is an autism mom, editor, and writer for The Thinking Moms' Revolution and The Age of Autism. Lisa Joyce Goes is the mom of three wildly gifted children Mads, Noah, and Liam. Noah was diagnosed with autism in 2008. Noah was nonverbal for quite a while and didn’t potty train until he was...

Send us Fan Mail In this powerfully inspiring episode of hope, Brigitte interviews Ilana Gerschlowitz, autism mom and Founding Director of The Star Academy which provides educational instruction to children with autism in South Africa. In 2004, her oldest son David was diagnosed with autism at the age of 20 months and ten years later, her youngest son Aaron was also diagnosed with autism. Ilana te...