By Christel Seeberger
Welcome to the Sensory Friendly Solutions Podcast! Season 1 brings you an 11-part deep dive into the world of your senses, sensory sensitivity and sensory overload, with the goal of discoveri
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The podcast currently has 12 episodes available.
In this very special bonus episode of the Sensory Friendly Solutions Podcast our Host Matt George is chatting with the towering autism champion, Dr. Temple Grandin.
Dr. Temple Grandin is well known to many for her trailblazing work as a spokesperson for people with autism and her lifelong work in the field of animal behaviour. Dr. Grandin has been with Colorado State University (CSU) for over 25 years and has led an incredibly productive and diverse professional life.
Her life’s work has been to understand her own autistic mind, and to share that knowledge with the world, helping autistics and people who identify as neurodiverse. Her understanding of the human mind has played a critical role in her work with animal behaviour, and she is one of the most respected experts in both autism and animal behaviour in the world.
EPISODE GUIDE:
3:48 Dr. Grandin shares her childhood experience living with autism
4:38 Dr. Grandin shares her top research priorities
5:24 Educating other researchers
8:17 What are the types of thinking?
10:32 Importance of routine during COVID-19
18:53 Thoughts on standardized education
24:11 What does high but reasonable expectations look like?
INNOVATION:
The Autistic Brain: Thinking Across the Spectrum
Thanks for listening - Christel Seeberger and the Sensory Friendly Solutions Team.
Full blog posts and transcripts for each episode can be found on our website.
Podcast leadership is provided by Sensory Friendly Solutions Founder & CEO Christel Seeberger.
This podcast was produced by Matt George and was engineered by Zachary Pelletier.
Thank you to our sponsor TakingITGlobal, ensuring that youth around the world are actively engaged. Head to risingyouth.ca to learn more and to become the next RisingYouth grant recipient.
The podcast is also supported by New Brunswick Community College as part of the Community Resource Awareness During and After COVID-19 applied research project, funded by the New Brunswick Innovation Foundation. Learn more about NBCC's efforts to transform lives and communities
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In this episode of the Sensory Friendly Solutions Podcast our Host Matt George is chatting with Dr. Peggy Bown, dentist, and Laura Caswell, theatre Director of Education.
EPISODE GUIDE
4:49 Dr. Bown's Introduction
7:26 Peggy's COVID-19 Experience
11:10 Laura Caswell's Introduction
15:12 Laura reflects on the early days of COVID-19
20:14 Peggy introduces Sensory Friendly service provision
25:58 Dr. Bown tells us about the "Patient Experience"
27:33 Laura's Sensory Friendly journey with Neptune Theatre
32:12 Laura's strategy for reducing the noise of the current moment
33:39 Peggy's strategy for reducing the noise of the current moment
37:00 Season 1 Recap with Christel Seeberger
SEASON 1 RECAP
Tune in to the final segment of this episode to hear Christel & Matt review the most impactful themes of Season 1.
Thanks for listening - Christel Seeberger and the Sensory Friendly Solutions Team.
Full blog posts and transcripts for each episode can be found on our website.
Podcast leadership is provided by Sensory Friendly Solutions Founder and CEO Christel Seeberger.
This podcast was produced by Matt George and was engineered by Zachary Pelletier.
Thank you to our sponsor TakingITGlobal, ensuring that youth around the world are actively engaged. Head to risingyouth.ca to learn more and to become the next RisingYouth grant recipient.
The podcast is also supported by New Brunswick Community College as part of the Community Resource Awareness During and After COVID-19 applied research project, funded by the New Brunswick Innovation Foundation. Learn more about NBCC's efforts to transform lives and communities
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In this episode of the Sensory Friendly Solutions Podcast our Host Matt George is chatting with Trish Hamilton, podcast host, marketing professional and mother of a wonderful boy, and their experience with autism.
EPISODE GUIDE:
3:17 Trish's radical transitions in 2020
7:03 Trish's experience in broadcasting
8:39 Trish's thoughts on Podcasting
10:00 Trish did not take her family for granted
11:02 Trish's experience teaching her son about COVID-19
12:37 On Working From Home (WFH)
17:13 Pursuing a diagnosis for their son
20:10 Trish's family got help
21:47 Why don't more families pursue diagnosis?
24:24 What it means to have support
27:01 The importance of listening to your gut
29:08 Does Trish have strategies to reduce the noise of the current era?
31:57 Christel's reflections
37:24 Innovation segment
INNOVATION:
Thanks for listening - Christel Seeberger and the Sensory Friendly Solutions Team.
Full blog posts and transcripts for each episode can be found on our website.
Podcast leadership is provided by Sensory Friendly Solutions Founder and CEO Christel Seeberger.
This podcast was produced by Matt George and was engineered by Zachary Pelletier.
Thank you to our sponsor TakingITGlobal, ensuring that youth around the world are actively engaged. Head to risingyouth.ca to learn more and to become the next RisingYouth grant recipient.
The podcast is also supported by New Brunswick Community College as part of the Community Resource Awareness During and After COVID-19 applied research project, funded by the New Brunswick Innovation Foundation. Learn more about NBCC's efforts to transform lives and communities
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In this episode of the Sensory Friendly Solutions Podcast our Host Matt George is chatting with Dr. Winnie Dunn.
Dr. Winnie Dunn is a world renowned expert sensory experiences affecting daily life. She has studied babies to older adults to identify patterns of reactions to sensations and published more than 100 journal articles, book chapters and books. Her book, Living Sensationally, is written for the public. It shares over 100 personal stories to illustrate how people's sensory reactions affect their relationships and daily life. She has received numerous awards and is invited to speak around the world.
Dr. Dunn is a Distinguished Professor at the University of Missouri-Columbia where she serves as a mentor for faculty and students. She was previously a Professor at the University of Kansas Medical Center for over 36 years.
EPISODE GUIDE:
3:25 Dr. Dunn share her personal bio
6:16 She talks about Stacey Abrams
9:03 Positive psychology
10:15 Dr. Dunn's reflections on COVID-19
16:53 She reflects on trends in Google searches about sensory overload
18:58 How we can understand ourselves
22:42 Dr. Dunn traces her career arc
32:51 The power of coaching
35:31 Her writing: Living Sensationally
41:56 Dr. Dunn's epic realization about the sensory world
49:29 Her strategy for reducing the "noise" of current life
54:36 Christel's Reflections
1:03:53 Innovation Segment
INNOVATION:
Thanks for listening - Christel Seeberger and the Sensory Friendly Solutions Team.
Full blog posts and transcripts for each episode can be found on our website.
Podcast leadership is provided by Sensory Friendly Solutions Founder and CEO Christel Seeberger.
This podcast was produced by Matt George and was engineered by Zachary Pelletier.
Thank you to our sponsor TakingITGlobal, ensuring that youth around the world are actively engaged. Head to risingyouth.ca to learn more and to become the next RisingYouth grant recipient.
The podcast is also supported by New Brunswick Community College as part of the Community Resource Awareness During and After COVID-19 applied research project, funded by the New Brunswick Innovation Foundation. Learn more about NBCC's efforts to transform lives and communities
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In this episode of the Sensory Friendly Solutions Podcast our Host Matt George is chatting with Stella Waterhouse.
"As a second generation educator and autism awareness expert I share my personal and professional experience and understanding of the autism spectrum and the many challenges that people with autism and their families face in their daily lives.
My goal is to develop resources that will offer practical advice, insight and solutions to parents and teachers so that the child's life is enriched and supported and family life is enhanced."
EPISODE GUIDE:
4:21 Stella's first experience in the world of autism
6:53 Stella describes "the 3 children:
13:11 How parents respond to Stella's work
14:56 Stella's take on how we're experiencing COVID-19 collectively
20:33 Koloko Travel is born
26:24 Oasis Cafe
28:59 UK re-enters lock-down and her strategies for thriving in the current moment
34:14 Christel's reflections
35:16 Innovation Segment
INNOVATION:
Thanks for listening - Christel Seeberger and the Sensory Friendly Solutions Team.
Full blog posts and transcripts for each episode can be found on our website.
Podcast leadership is provided by Sensory Friendly Solutions Founder and CEO Christel Seeberger.
This podcast was produced by Matt George and was engineered by Zachary Pelletier.
Thank you to our sponsor TakingITGlobal, ensuring that youth around the world are actively engaged. Head to risingyouth.ca to learn more and to become the next RisingYouth grant recipient.
The podcast is also supported by New Brunswick Community College as part of the Community Resource Awareness During and After COVID-19 applied research project, funded by the New Brunswick Innovation Foundation. Learn more about NBCC's efforts to transform lives and communities.
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In this episode of the Sensory Friendly Solutions Podcast our Host Matt George is chatting with the great Karine Gagner, President of FDMT.
Karine Gagner is the President of FDMT, a company specializing in high-quality educational materials and sensory tools. She founded FDMT in 2002 and has grown it ever since. It's goal: to offer a wide range of solutions for all children with or without learning difficulties in order to lead them towards academic success. Her passion and motivation also come from the greatest project of her life: being the mother of a 17 year-old girl with ASD (Autism Spectrum Disorder). Every day, she works not only for her daughter, but also for all the children and parents who live in different situations and who need a little help.
EPISODE GUIDE:
2:23 Karine's Introduction
3:26 Find out why Karine dug in even further
6:40 FDMT's COVID-19 Response
8:56 Karine asks herself, " What is the essence of the business?"
11:18 How we all deal with anxiety
13:32 Our modern overload
16:32 The origin story of FDMT
19:04 When Karine recognizes the impact of her business
21:58 The power of awareness
22:57 Why MANIMO has been such a success
25:27 Karine's journey with her daughter
30:54 Christel's reflections
33:57 Christel's reflections on a really special young man
36:49 FDMT as leaders in the Sensory Friendly space
43:06 Innovation Segment
Thanks for listening - Christel Seeberger and the Sensory Friendly Solutions Team.
Full blog posts and transcripts for each episode can be found on our website.
Podcast leadership is provided by Sensory Friendly Solutions Founder and CEO Christel Seeberger.
This podcast was produced by Matt George and was engineered by Zachary Pelletier.
Thank you to our sponsor TakingITGlobal, ensuring that youth around the world are actively engaged. Head to risingyouth.ca to learn more and to become the next RisingYouth grant recipient.
The podcast is also supported by New Brunswick Community College as part of the Community Resource Awareness During and After COVID-19 applied research project, funded by the New Brunswick Innovation Foundation. Learn more about NBCC's efforts to transform lives and communities.
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In this episode of the Sensory Friendly Solutions Podcast our Host Matt George is chatting with the great Carol Stock Kranowitz, best-selling author of "The Out-of-Sync Child."
As a music, movement and drama teacher for 25 years (1976-2001), Carol observed many out-of-sync preschoolers. To help them become more competent in their work and play, she began to study sensory processing and sensory integration (“SI”) theory. She learned to help identify her young students’ needs and to steer them into early intervention. In writings and workshops, she explains to parents, educators, and other early childhood professionals how sensory issues play out – and provides fun and functional techniques for addressing them at home and school. She is best-known for her book, The Out-of-Sync Child, which has sold about 1 million copies.
EPISODE GUIDE
2:11 Carol's early experience as a teacher
5:00 Carol on Pattern Recognition in neuro-diverse youth
11:04 The stress of our current time
12:16 Why Carol thinks we are the guinea-pigs
14:29 Carol's career arc and how she found writing
21:34 Carol's revealing statistic about sensory issues
25:03 How Sensory Processing Disorder manifests itself in the working world.
28:52 How Carol's book helped parents deal with blame and shame
39:34 Carol's In-Sync Child Program and Webinars
41:06 Where you can get the books
43:32 Carol's strategy for dealing with the noise of the current era
46:21 How Christel discovered Carol's work in 1994
49:17 Christel reflects on The Out-of-Sync child
51:57 How we can learn to become detectives
54:00 The importance of play
56:38 The Innovation Segment
Thanks for listening - Christel Seeberger and the Sensory Friendly Solutions Team.
Full blog posts and transcripts for each episode can be found on our website.
Podcast leadership is provided by Sensory Friendly Solutions Founder and CEO Christel Seeberger.
This podcast was produced by Matt George and was engineered by Zachary Pelletier.
Thank you to our sponsor TakingITGlobal, ensuring that youth around the world are actively engaged. Head to risingyouth.ca to learn more and to become the next RisingYouth grant recipient.
The podcast is also supported by New Brunswick Community College as part of the Community Resource Awareness During and After COVID-19 applied research project, funded by the New Brunswick Innovation Foundation. Learn more about NBCC's efforts to transform lives and communities.
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In this episode of the Sensory Friendly Solutions Podcast, Host Matt George speaks to Dr. Bill Wong, TEDx Speaker, Occupational Therapist, OTA/OT Program Adjunct Faculty Member and autistic adult.
TEDx describes Dr. Wong:
"Born in Hong Kong but raised in the United States, Bill Wong, OTD, OTR/L didn't speak until he was nearly three. Although he demonstrated restricted and repetitive behavior, his pediatrician refused to diagnose him with autism because of his high IQ. It wasn't until after obtaining an undergraduate degree in statistics and finding limited job prospects that Bill was finally diagnosed with Asperger's Syndrome and discovered his passion in occupational therapy.
Since 2010, Bill has completed a Master's degree in Occupational Therapy and received his clinical doctorate. Now an established clinician with a specialty in autism, he is also a well-known presence on social media - an avenue he uses to share his successes and challenges as an individual with autism. Moving forward, Bill plans to use his passion to engage students in Chinese speaking countries with education in their native language, while continuing to establish himself as a leader in OT and autism communities."
EPISODE GUIDE
6:46 Bill on why this year has been so strange in California
7:42 How Bill pivoted during COVID
11:01 Bill on Zoom Fatigue
14:04 Bill on his incredible professional journey
17:58 When Bill found Occupational Therapy
22:27 Alarm bells go off
22:40 Bill's amazing epiphany
23:55 Bill's autism diagnosis
25:09 How his parents reacted
28:20 Bill on finding his mentor
30:27 His commitment to others in his situation
34:32 Bill gets nominated for a TEDx Talk
38:51 Listener response to the TEDx Talk
40:10 Bill on camouflaging
46:08 Christel's reflections
56:35 Innovation segment
Thanks for listening - Christel Seeberger and the Sensory Friendly Solutions Team.
Full blog posts and transcripts for each episode can be found on our website.
Podcast leadership is provided by Sensory Friendly Solutions Founder and CEO Christel Seeberger.
This podcast was produced by Matt George and was engineered by Zachary Pelletier.
Thank you to our sponsor TakingITGlobal, ensuring that youth around the world are actively engaged. Head to risingyouth.ca to learn more and to become the next RisingYouth grant recipient.
The podcast is also supported by New Brunswick Community College as part of the Community Resource Awareness During and After COVID-19 applied research project, funded by the New Brunswick Innovation Foundation. Learn more about NBCC's efforts to t
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In this episode of the Sensory Friendly Solutions Podcast our Host Matt George is chatting with Renee Warren, the Founder of We Wild Women and the Host of the Into the Wild Podcast.
Renee wants to help women around the world start their dream business with the incredibly ambitious goal of support 1 Million women in her lifetime.
"I have one gigantic mission: To help a million female entrepreneurs launch and grow a wildly successful company!"
If you're engaging with Renee's work, she says, "you're in the right place!"
"You are here because you either want to:
You don’t have to do it alone, that’s where this community and me come in. I’m here for you every step of the way. From dirty back-of-the-napkin idea to launch right through to scaling your marvellous business."
EPISODE GUIDE:
2:00 Renee's entrepreneurial journey
4:07 What will COVID change?
7:40 Renee on creating boundaries
8:23 Professional overwhelm
10:11 How Renee adapted to working from home
11:05 Renee's ideal customer
17:53 Renee's morning routine
20:45 How to deal with what Renee calls 'Down Cycles'
28:21 Renee calls 'BS'
31:59 Our deepest fears
32:37 Renee's son Max and his experience with hyper-sensitivity
37:17 Renee's strategy for reducing the noise of the current era
39:42 Renee's reflection
41:37 Christel's personal examples
44:46 Christel on boundaries
47:46 Christel's reflection on being curious
Thanks for listening - Christel Seeberger and the Sensory Friendly Solutions Team.
Full blog posts and transcripts for each episode can be found on our website.
Podcast leadership is provided by Sensory Friendly Solutions Founder & CEO Christel Seeberger.
This podcast was produced by Matt George and was engineered by Zachary Pelletier.
Thank you to our sponsor TakingITGlobal, ensuring that youth around the world are actively engaged. Head to risingyouth.ca to learn more and to become the next Rising Youth grant recipient.
The podcast is also supported by New Brunswick Community College as part of the Community Resource Awareness During and After COVID-19 applied research project, funded by the New Brunswick Innovation Foundation. Learn more about NBCC's efforts to transform lives and communities.
Sign up for the Sensory Friendly Solutions newsletter to receive sensory-friendly tips and strategies delivered straight to your inbox.
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In this episode of the Sensory Friendly Solutions Podcast our Host Matt George is chatting with Maureen Bennie, the Founder of the Autism Awareness Centre.
Maureen Bennie created the Autism Awareness Centre in 2003 to address what she saw as a gap in support, information, resources and advocacy for those who experience autism spectrum disorders.
Maureen is the mother of two young autistic adults– Marc and Julia. For 8 years, she managed an at-home Intensive Behavioral Intervention Program which involved working with speech pathologists, child development specialists, psychologists, occupational therapists, and physical therapists.
EPISODE GUIDE
2:19 Maureen talks about the effects of COVID-19 on the Autism Awareness Centre
5:19 Maureen introduces her two adult children with autism and their experience with the pandemic
7:47 Maureen introduces the disruption of routine we've all experienced and it's effects on our wellbeing
12:13 How Maureen breaks down routine and consistency with her children
14:59 How important the discussion around PPE and Sensory Overload is to the current time
16:41 Creating consistency in the home
22:01 Maureen's unique solution that allowed her children to better experience the world
25:35 Interoception: The Eighth Sense
36:21 Where you can find Maureen's work
42:26 Maureen's strategy to reduce the noise of the current world
47:07 Christel Seeberger addresses our listeners
49:15 Acknowledgement of violence within families in this moment
54:29 Christel's reflections on Interoception
58:31 Innovation Segment
Thanks for listening - Christel Seeberger and the Sensory Friendly Solutions Team.
Full blog posts and transcripts for each episode can be found on our website.
Podcast leadership is provided by Sensory Friendly Solutions Founder & CEO Christel Seeberger.
This podcast was produced by Matt George and was engineered by Zachary Pelletier.
Thank you to our sponsor TakingITGlobal, ensuring that youth around the world are actively engaged. Head to risingyouth.ca to learn more and to become the next RisingYouth grant recipient.
The podcast is also supported by New Brunswick Community College as part of the Community Resource Awareness During and After COVID-19 applied research project, funded by the New Brunswick Innovation Foundation. Learn more about NBCC's efforts to transform lives and communities.
Sign up for the Sensory Friendly Solutions newsletter to receive sensory-friendly tips and strategies delivered straight to your inbox.
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The podcast currently has 12 episodes available.