Each and every week, the Special Needs Podcast Roundup scours the internet in order to locate interesting, newsworthy, new episodes of podcasts that would be relevant to parents of children who have special needs. This week, I have new episodes of your favorite podcasts, and a podcast that has never been mentioned in the Roundup before. Rethink Autism is a group that focuses the Applied Behavior Analysis that is used as an intervention treatment for children who have an autism spectrum disorder. They have video based lessons that can help parents to do ABA with their child. In addition to … Continue reading →

The brand new school year has started, and there are a lot of podcast episodes that discuss topics related to schools, learning, budget cutbacks, and stress. The Special Needs Podcast Roundup gives you an easy to use list of podcasts that are new, interesting, and relevant to parents of kids who have special needs. NPR has an episode of Morning Edition that was released on August 29, 2011. In this episode, there is a discussion about a study that finds that the concept of being a visual or auditory learner is not evidence based. Parents Plate has an episode that … Continue reading →

It’s that time of the week! Here are a bunch of new episodes of podcasts about topics that parents of children who have special needs will find relevant. You can find new things to listen to every week on the Special Needs Podcast Roundup blog. Special Kid School Talk has an episode that was released on August 26, 2011. This episode is called “Homeschooling Your Special Needs Child”. Host Dr. Kari speaks with Bobbi Sheahan, a mother of a child that has autism. They talk about how to homeschool your special needs child, how to provide your child with a … Continue reading →

It is time to listen to brand new episodes of podcasts that talk about topics that are relevant to parents of children who have special needs. In this week’s Special Needs Podcast Roundup you can listen to episodes on dyspraxia and dyslexia, on girls and attention deficit disorder, and much more! The Coffee Klatch has an episode that was released on August 21, 2011. This episode is called “Dr. Samango-Sprouse and The Focus Foundation”. Dr. Samango-Sprouse is a neurodevelopmentalist. He is the director of the Neurodevelopmental Diagnostic Center for Young Children in Maryland. They focus on X & Y variations … Continue reading →

Get ready for a brand new batch of podcast episodes about topics that parents of children with special needs can relate to! The Special Needs Podcast Roundup brings you the newest episodes of really interesting podcasts each and every week. Special Kid School Talk released an episode on August 12, 2011, called “Sensory Processing Disorder and Anxiety”. Host Dr. Kari is joined by guest Jackie Linder Olson. They talk about how the information that a child learns from his or her senses can be misunderstood by the child’s body. Parents of children with sensory processing disorder can learn tips about … Continue reading →

Ready for more podcasts that cover topics relevant to parents of children who have Special Needs? New episodes can be found every week, if you know where to look. If you didn’t finish listening to the podcasts featured in last week’s Special Needs Podcast Roundup, don’t panic! Those podcasts will still be online, and available, when you are ready to check them out. The Coffee Klatch released an episode on July 27, 2011. This episode features Dr. Lucy Miller, the Founder and Director of The Sensory Processing Disorder Foundation. She is also the author of the book “Sensational Kids”. This … Continue reading →