Get ready to learn as our totally knowlegable guest Martha Herbert MD PhD author of The Autism Revolution shares epigenetic information and the following ten tips for helping your loved one with autism (reprinted with permission).

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1. Go for the extraordinary. Rejoice in your child’s often remarkable strengths and shore up their vulnerable spots; don’t try to “fix” them.

2. Know what you can’t control—and what you can. 
You can’t change your child’s genes, but through lots of small choices you make each day—about food, products, and activities—you can build resilience and lower your child’s Total Load of stressors. Make their genes sing, not cry.

3. Repair and support cells and cycles. The health of your child’s cells is the solid foundation for your child’s whole body and brain health. Nourish them well and protect them from injury so they become more energetic and efficient.

4. Get gut and immune systems on your side. Our digestive and immune systems connect the insides of our bodies with the outside world. Cultivate their health for your child and your whole family and enjoy how much better life becomes for all of you.

5. Build better brain health. Healthy bodies give the brain the energy and nutrition supplies it needs to be all it can be. An irritated brain retreats from the world. Through better food, fewer toxins, and reduced stress, your child’s healthier brain will give zest for new experiences.

6. Calm brain chaos. Problems with sensory integration, sleep, seizures, speech, language, and other brain-based issues increase stress. Reduce overload by understanding the challenges to your child’s brain. Your child will feel safer, calmer, and more curious, and will learn better.

7. Join your child’s world. Look for hidden reasons behind your child’s most challenging or bizarre behaviors. See them as signals of problems inside their bodies or in the world around them. Learn the code and find solutions. To fix their behavior, fix their environment.

8. Love, rejoice, and make breakthroughs. Enrich their experience. Teach them simple things step by step without judgment. Help them channel their special interests into skills. Build bridges between your ways of experiencing and theirs. Help them expand their comfort zone.

9. Lead the revolution! Keep track of what you learn, and share it to help others, too. Advocate for research that helps support better treatment. Your thoughtful observations and insights can help us all take a revolutionary new look at autism.

10. Do it for yourself, your next baby, your family,
and your world. Learn to look at autism as something that develops, not something that is destined. This frees you to find ways to make it milder—or even dial it back. Your autism challenge can teach you how to better support the health of your whole family, your future children and the world.

And the above tips combined with Dr. Herbert’s wonderful words of wisdom and science are The Great Guest Giveaway.

Lynette originally found Dr. Herbert after visiting the Autism Society’s website and reading her 2009 article on chemicals and autism. Given some of the recent information she couldn’t wait to interview her. You will NOT be disappointed.

In Stories From the Road we meander through the idea of chemicals and behavior only to rediscover how connected they are to each other.

Today’s question: Created more even more questions worth pondering.

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What an uplifting and tangibly useful show. Emily Ladau author of the informative, funny, touching and, finger on the pulse of what really matters, blog Words I Wheel By talks with Lynette on the possibility of bullying from within the disabled community. She is open and intelligent as she shares the issues of her disability and the worries that being genetically predisposed to pass on a disability bring to the concept of motherhood.

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The Great Guest Giveaway portion of the show follows up on the subject of parenting as step-parenting steps into the limelight. Michele Sfkianos shares a nurse/author/mom’s hands on wisdom. She is the author of the 411 series of books filled to overflowing with tangible tips on how to handle a variety of issues. Today we discuss being the moms and dads of other people’s ‘special’ kids whom we are trying to raise as our own.

In Stories From the Road Lynette shakes up the concept of acceptance and confesses coming face to face with her own judgments toward the disabled.

Today’s question: Can we ask others to accept us if we don’t accept ourselves?

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One of Lynette’s clients revisits the show in a time of crisis to just let it all hang out. Spilling the ‘what’s crap about professionals working with autism beans’ is a great stress reliever for Jody and possibly for any parents listening at home.

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For you professionals: Listen Up and Learn what Not to do and how Not to be!

It’s a fun and feisty show with a language warning sooooo send the kiddos out of the room while Jody clears her mind and finds her solution: If it ain’t broke don’t fix it! and Neurofeedback!

During Stories From The Road Lynette shares the pain of dealing with raising so many autistic children by taking us back to when her kids were young and the neighbors were trying to get them to leave the neighborhood.

Today’s question: Does kvetching ever bring you to a place of clarity?

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Paul Louden of Understanding Autism a radio show about people on the spectrum jumps on today’s show to discuss Google Glass. Linda Della Donna of the book A Gift Of Love and the blogging website Griefcase runs to her phone to support Lynette in a moment of need.

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Lynette had a trip take, no time left to seek guests and barely enough time to record. It occurred to her that this was the perfect scenario to discuss the manner in which not knowing what is coming can change the open one’s eyes for clearer seeing.

With this idea in mind she reached for someone to talk to that could share something she knew nothing about. In fact unknowing was she that she thought her second guests name was Belladonna because at least this she had heard connected to autism.

Listen in a see what wonders innocence can bring:

During Stories From The Road Lynette brings it together by underscoring the problems inherent in thinking you know and so not learning to see.

Today’s question: Changes.

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Kelley Dawson, Brandessa Hale and Lynette share tales of intervening and succeeding. It is an intimate show full of family and friends who changed the trajectory of their children’s lives. The question then becomes “Would it have gotten better on its own or did we really change the story into No Story To Tell?”

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From TV trauma to Vaccine injury to Infant Thyroid Dysfunction over and over we learn about the children that got away. Bless them.

During Stories From The Road Lynette brings it together with the child the doctors saved.

Today’s question: Did we really save them?

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Jerry Trowbridge of The Autism Channel discusses their Indiegogo campaign. Lynette pretty much just sits back and lets him roll with it because Jerry is a long time radio pro, and it shows. He tells the story of how the station and the channel became a reality and why.

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If you have ever wondered whether or not our population would be better served by a more ‘old fashioned, less plugged in’ approach to therapy this is the show for you. The Autism Channel is about being plugged but Lynette has lived long enough to share a perspective from both, before and after the internet made us a community.

During Stories From The Road Lynette tells the story of eating ants off the ground (trust me there is a connection to the theme).

Today’s question: Are we better off with all this information access through the internet?

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Marilyn Ann Francis is the talk show host for POSITIVELY AUTISTIC as well as the owner of LONGFELLOW POETRY CORNER ON FACEBOOK.

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However today’s show is about Marilyn’s personal life more than her work. Today’s show is about making something beautiful out of something challenging. Today’s show is about a willingness to share so that others might learn. Today’s show is about mundane tasks that become feats of awe inspiring achievements. Today’s show is about Inspiration Porn.

Lynette shared her new book The WingMaker with Marilyn only to discover that Marilyn had just lived the story herself. Marilyn’s daughter Leslie died. Marilyn is brave enough to try and talk about it with us so that we might bring in the New Year with a lighter, more connected, heart. Marilyn is brave.

During Stories From The Road Lynette confesses her own foray into the world of ‘sorta’ porn.

Today’s question: Why do human’s put negative terms on beautiful things like Inspirational pictures?

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Professor emeritus at the University of California San Francisco, Dr. Michael Merzenich, is a world authority on neuroscience and brain plasticity. He is the co-founder of Posit Science and Scientific Learning, and has recently released a new book called Soft-Wired. Dr Merzenich has done several Ted Talks and a truly understandable brainiac.

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Even more interesting to hear is that, because he helped her comprehend the brain and become excellent in neurofeedback, Lynette is his science groupie!

Dr. Merzenich is Lynette’s one and only guest today because she just couldn’t get enough of his take on auditory processing and its relationship with brain development.

As Lynette explains later in the show, she believes that her new book The WingMaker brings the reason and motivation for learning about brain plasticity but that Dr Merzenich’s book Soft-Wired brings the know how.

During Stories From The Road a personal story of abuse and achievement are weaved into the theme of ‘Nature versus Nurture’ and the answer to that age old dilemma is shared.

Today’s question: Are We Stuck With What We Got?

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Our guest today gives a testimonial for Lynette’s new book The WingMaker and then shakes things up with his remarkable story. Born with cerebral palsy, and partially paralyzed on his left side, John Quinn kept his condition a secret to join the United States Navy – in fact he maintained that secret during his entire 20-year military career. No one knew John had cerebral palsy as he sailed around the world on aircraft carriers, battleships and destroyers. Mr. Quinn retired in 2002 as a Senior Chief Petty Officer – the second highest enlisted rank you can hold in the Navy. He is the author of the powerful memoir titled Someone Like Me – An Unlikely Story of Challenge and Triumph Over Cerebral Palsy. Lynette and John discuss the concept of ‘hiding’ a disability.

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Mr. Quinn is both the main guest AND the Great Guest Giveaway Guest because Lynette just loves to do it different, every single episode. Besides TK Matteson, friend and comic colleague was late calling in . TK is a consummate performer and can take an audience anywhere, literally. His quick delivery, timing, and sharp writing skills led to an Emmy nomination for The Best Damn Sports Show. But whether in a club, or on the reality show Face the Family, you would never notice his Cerebral Palsy. And strangely enough, there was a time when that created an unexpected limitation. Listen in to hear what.

During Stories From The Road Lynette attempts to solve the day’s riddle and leave you with a profound memory. As always, she pulls it off.

Today’s question: Should you hide your disability to get ahead?

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Kim Pomares of Mendability for Autism shares the evolution of Mendability’s unique clinically supported sensory enrichment home therapy program. He opens by laughingly saying “It all began with my mother – maybe all good stories begin that way.” He may be right, certainly his therapy seems to be. This special approach to healing the symptoms of autism is affordable and scientifically viable. CHECK IT OUT!

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Great Guest Giveaway Guest: Keri Bowers owner of Normal films offers a couple of DVD’s of her new documentary ARTS. She is the co-creator (along with her special son) of Normal People Scare Me and the Sandwich Kid and she is a DYNAMO! Keri Bowers has, amidst a great personal tragedy, decided to experience 122 days of gratitude out loud and in the company of social media users. She is a mountain mover and just listening to her brings gratitude into your life.

As always during Stories From The Road Lynette combines the experiences of her two guest into a cohesive picture that will inspire you to learn from your life and to do it with GRATITUDE.

Today’s question: How do you make a life work?

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