Finding Hope on the Spectrum
Finding Hope on the Spectrum
Podcast Description
Are you worried about your autistic son's or daughter's future and quality of life? Do you want to feel empowered to be the intuitive parent you know you are? Or are you a curious professional, seeking to learn and discover how to best reach your autistic clients? I invite you to join our community of growth seeking individuals as we connect, share and support each other.
This show will feature heart to heart conversations with parents, professionals, and autistic individuals sharing personal insight and life experiences. We will dive deep into supports, programs, and stories that inspire us.
Podcast Insights
Content Themes
The podcast focuses on the themes of parenting autistic children, professional insights into neurodiversity, and personal growth stories, with episodes exploring therapeutic approaches like ABA and RDI, and listener-driven discussions on overcoming challenges in supporting autistic individuals.
Are you worried about your autistic son’s or daughter’s future and quality of life? Do you want to feel empowered to be the intuitive parent you know you are? Or are you a curious professional, seeking to learn and discover how to best reach your autistic clients? I invite you to join our community of growth seeking individuals as we connect, share and support each other.
This show will feature heart to heart conversations with parents, professionals, and autistic individuals sharing personal insight and life experiences. We will dive deep into supports, programs, and stories that inspire us.
Host Brooke welcomes Faye Bankler Casell, a certified academic language therapist, dyslexia specialist, and founder of Home Reading Coach, to discuss reading struggles and dyslexia. Faye shares her path from early childhood/special education into dyslexia intervention, influenced by her son’s early delays and later diagnosis of ADHD and dysgraphia, and by seeing the psychological toll on students who feel ashamed when reading is hard. They define dyslexia as a neurodivergence rooted in phonological processing, note common misconceptions (not simply letter reversals), and describe warning signs, assessment options (public school testing, private psychologists), and the importance of early intervention. Faye explains multisensory, explicit, systematic instruction, the need for extensive repetition, variability in school services, and her Reading Breakthrough remote program with parent training and resources.
00:00 Why Reading Feels Risky
00:46 Show Intro and Guest
02:41 Faye’s Path to Dyslexia Work
06:20 Emotional Safety in Learning
09:11 What Dyslexia Really Is
12:16 Common Dyslexia Myths
14:41 Early Warning Signs
18:12 Testing and Getting Help
19:57 Who Can Diagnose Dyslexia
25:17 Multisensory Reading Approach
31:17 Why Early Intervention Matters
33:28 Public Schools Must Test
33:57 Why Schools Miss Dyslexia
36:23 IEPs and Service Quality Gaps
38:38 Reading Breakthrough Overview
43:06 Time Commitment and Routine
46:34 Multisensory Lesson Examples
53:18 Empowering Parents at Home
54:41 Advocacy Must Dos
59:02 Where to Find Resources
01:00:14 Closing Thanks and Wrap
Connect with Finding Hope on the Spectrum:
Email: [email protected]
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61574918739411
Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/brooke-wagner-4819233a/
Instagram: @findinghopeonthespectrum
TikTok: Findinghopeonthespectrum
Guest Contact:
Faye B. Casell
Certified Academic Language Therapist
Dyslexia Specialist
Website: https://homereadingcoach.com/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/homereadingcoach/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/homereadingcoach
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@TeachMyChildToRead
Get the FREE Dyslexia Roadmap for Families E-Book
https://fayebankler.mysamcart.com/free-dyslexia-roadmap-for-families/
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