Jul 21, 2026
Teaching autistic preschoolers can feel lonely. This is the episode where I pull back the curtain on the membership that became the opposite of that island — where it came from, what's inside, and the community that surprised me most.
Teaching young autistic children can feel like being on an island. The membership is...
Jul 14, 2026
My non-speaking three-year-old student told me "This is boring" on his AAC device.
That moment changed everything for me, because that is communication, and that is competence. It's exactly what today's episode is about: presuming competence, an idea that quietly shapes everything else we do with young autistic...
Jul 7, 2026
What if defiance is really dysregulation? In this episode I sit down with Alyssa Blask Campbell — New York Times bestselling author of Tiny Humans, Big Emotions, founder of Seed & Sow, and co-creator of the Collaborative Emotion Processing method — to talk about emotional intelligence, unique nervous systems, and...
Jun 30, 2026
Imagine understanding every word around you while the adults talk over you like you’re not even there — and not having a reliable way to communicate until you’re almost 19. That’s part of Jordyn Zimmerman’s story. Jordyn is an autistic woman who is non-speaking and a full-time AAC user, and in...
Jun 23, 2026
He was banging his head on the floor, and Tara remembers the tears sliding down her cheeks and the only words she could find: "How can I help you?" That moment, and dozens of others over 25 years in the classrooms, the real origin story of the Preschool Autism Summit.
In this episode, we flip the script. Instead of...