by The Special Needs Companies | Jun 1, 2023
We celebrate LGBTQ+ Pride month in June each year to honor the 1969 Stonewall Uprising. Pride Month is a time to recognize the issues, challenges, and discrimination the LGBTQ+ community has faced and to celebrate the triumphs. This podcast episode features an...
by The Special Needs Companies | Mar 12, 2023
In this episode as we celebrate Women’s History Month in March, Host Annette Hines talked with Danielle Sullivan – the founder of Neurodiverging Coaching, an online, sliding scale coaching practice supporting a worldwide, diverse clientele with issues...
by The Special Needs Companies | Dec 15, 2022
Host Annette Hines and her guest, David Goldfarb who is the Director of Policy at the Arc of the United States discuss policy and advocacy issues related to housing and institutional bias in the disability community. Despite the landmark Olmstead decision of the U.S....
by The Special Needs Companies | Sep 28, 2022
When your family is faced with natural disasters or emergency situations, how do you cope? For families with children with disabilities or complex medical needs, what types of plans do you have in place to protect their access to medicines, devices or equipment, food...
by The Special Needs Companies | Sep 21, 2022
Sensitive Topic Warning: Host Annette Hines discusses child abuse and child sexual abuse in this episode with two guests. She introduces the episode by reflecting on the report of the abuse of a young man with disabilities in a group home in southern Illinois...
by The Special Needs Companies | Aug 31, 2022
What is PDA? New to the United States, Pathological Demand Avoidance (PDA) Syndrome is a small, distinct profile of autism characterized by avoiding demands and expectations due to an anxiety-based need for control. Our recent Parenting Impossible podcast guest, Diane...
