Mother's Guide Through Autism

Send us Fan Mail In this week's episode, Brigitte interviews Terri Wible, an autism mom and founder and director of Paws 4 Autism, which provides autism service dogs and related services in the Kansas City Metro area. Terri founded Paws 4 Autism in 2010 after seeing remarkable benefits of having an autism service dog for her daughter Adriana who has what Terri calls angry autism. The transfor...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode of Mother's Guide Through Autism, Brigitte Shipman interviews Marcela Guimoye, an autism mom and founder and executive director of EndlessBrain. EndlessBrain is a not-for-profit organization that serves the special needs children and offers them musical learning opportunities to promote essential skills, self-esteem, and inclusion. Marcela created EndlessBrain...

Send us Fan Mail In this week's episode, Brigitte Shipman continues the conversation on stress management with her son Joseph Shipman. Joseph shares his perspective on how he experienced stress growing up with autism and as an adult living with autism.  Brigitte shares her memory of how easily Joseph got overly stimulated and cried constantly as a child. She recalls creating a cassette record...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode of Mother's Guide Through Autism, Brigitte Shipman offers her top three stress management tools. She takes you through these tools and teaches you how to apply them into your daily life. You will learn how to feel lighter even on your most stressful days. Brigitte shares how she used to think that self-care was a waste of time and she simply did not have the t...

Send us Fan Mail In this week’s week’s episode, Dr. Laurell Matthews, ND and Brigitte Shipman discuss the naturopathic approach to helping our kids with autism. Dr. Laurell herself was diagnosed with autism a few years ago as an adult and it gave her a greater understanding of herself and helped her to make sense of some the things she had struggled with.  She talks about how genetics, environment...

Send us Fan Mail In this powerfully moving episode, Tulika Prasad shares her journey of raising her 10-year old son Vedant who is severely speech delayed and non-verbal, and how his autism has made her a better human being and appreciate many more things in life. Tulika is a blogger at Braindroplets.com and a contributing writer for the Autism Parenting Magazine. She is a passionate advocate for i...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode of Mother’s Guide Through Autism, Brigitte Shipman and Joseph Shipman discuss together the 5 Things that Joseph was glad that his mother did raising him with autism. They reflect their journey through these 5 points that Joseph felt helped him the most throughout his childhood. They offer insight for mothers raising children with autism as well as for those on the...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode of Mother’s Guide Through Autism podcast, Brigitte Shipman discusses with her son Joseph the 5 things he wished she would have known raising him with autism. It is a discussion with a mother and her son reflecting the life lessons that they both have learned together. Life can be pretty confusing and complicated as it is for neurotypical kids growing up but it can...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode of Mother’s Guide Through Autism Podcast, Brigitte Shipman discusses the 5 things she is glad that she knew raising her son Joseph with autism.  Brigitte discusses each of the 5 life lessons that she applied in her own experience of raising Joseph. She explains how she followed her inner mother's voice to help guide her in every situation she encountered.   Br...

Send us Fan Mail In this week's powerfully inspiring episode, Brigitte Shipman interviews Stella Spanakos who is a co-founder of Spectrum Designs and The Nicholas Center. Stella tells her story of how she started a t-shirt business that employs people with autism because she didn’t see a lot of employment opportunities for adults with autism like her son and she was concerned about her son&ap...

Send us Fan Mail From her 27-year experience of raising her son with autism, Brigitte Shipman brings you the 5 most important lessons she learned in her journey. She's had her share of freaking out, being stressed out, and not knowing what to do, and by sharing her wisdom, she hopes to alleviate any fear and undue stress mothers out there might be experiencing right now.  She shares how she&a...

Send us Fan Mail Pain is universal and we all have to deal with it whether you're on the spectrum or not. Talking about pain is not an easy thing to do but we can make the most profound and deep connection with others when we open ourselves up to talk about it. Brigitte and her son Joseph talk about the pain Joseph experienced growing up with autism. Joseph talks about some of the difficultie...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode of Mother’s Guide Through Autism podcast I discuss the process of moving through the pain of getting an autism disgnosis of my son.  It was devastating news to receive as a mother. I went through shock, numbness, grief, and I thought the pain I felt in my heart was going to kill me. But I moved through it and allowed it to pull me into becoming a mother warrior. Ad...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode of Mother’s Guide Through Autism, Brigitte Shipman and her son Joseph Shipman have a discussion about what Block Therapy and Fost Forward Therapy were like for him. Joseph shares what he remembers of his experience.  Joseph also shares how deviation from a routine in his childhood felt like a computer crashing and how crucial it was to hear his mom say she was prou...

Send us Fan Mail Brigitte shares her inspiring story of how she followed her own intuition in deciding to work with a neurologist with a not-so-stellar reputation in her small town.  Though considered unconventional (and inconclusive to this day), Block Therapy with this neurologist was worth a shot to try since it wasn’t going to hurt her son Joseph. It ended up helping Joseph with understanding...

Send us Fan Mail This episode will take you through one of the early therapies that Brigitte found on her journey of becoming Joseph’s expert advocate. Although there are therapies being offered that are found to be inconclusive, they may just work. Brigitte tells her story of what she documented and how Auditory Integration Training began waking her son Joseph up. Links/Resources: Book: Learning...

Send us Fan Mail Brigitte and Joseph discuss Joseph’s personal experience of what took place during and after Auditory Integration Training Therapy. They also discuss how they have personally seen how early intervention can change a child’s life. Brigitte gives her own inspiration of why it is never too late to begin. Support the show

Send us Fan Mail This episode will enlighten mothers who are suffering as they are becoming their child’s expert advocate. Brigitte interviews her son Joseph about what his experience has been living with autism for the past 27 years of his life. He gives his own perspective of what he was actually living vs. what his mother was feeling during different periods of his life.  This mother and son ha...

Send us Fan Mail This episode is for any mother who is searching for hope and inspiration in raising her child with autism. Brigitte offers you a story of how she and her autistic son Joseph teamed up to help other mothers of children in the autistic spectrum become the expert advocates for their children. This is an inspiring introduction of how Mother’s Guide Through Autism came to be. Brigitte...