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Benison and Seana talk about The Australian Autism Handbook
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Mandy and Kate chat with Benison O’Reilly and Seana Smith, Pea mums of adult sons with diagnoses of autism and co-authors of The Australian Autism Handbook – the essential guide for parenting a child on the autism spectrum. First published in 2008, a fully revised and updated version of the book was released in January 2023, and is an essential, comprehensive and inclusive guide incorporating advice and information you can trust.
After meeting at a parenting support group and striking up a friendship, Seana and Benison decided to write a book together to address the enormous lack of support for parents at the time. The updated edition includes new and inclusive language, new evidence-based interventions, information on NDIS, greater recognition of diagnosis in women and girls, a new chapter with advice for parents directly from adults with autism, and more. The book draws on the experience of over forty different collaborators, including adults with autism, parents, professionals and autism experts.
Benison and Seana also share insights into their son’s adult lives now – their passions, interests, friendships and communities.
Thank you Benison and Seana for chatting with us!
Order your copy of The Australian Autism Handbook
Plus
- Mandy took Molly to AbilityFest and thought it was incredible
- Mandy and Miss 12 have been laughing to The Odd Man Who Sings About Poop, Puke and Pee on Spotify
- Melbourne forecast for Thursday May 4 – Partly cloudly, 17 degrees
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Snap Pea 72
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The peas are back snap-peaing! Mandy and Kate love these episodes, hearing from you and having a virtual chat.
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Peafessional OT Helen talks about Healthy Mothers, Healthy Families
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Mandy and Kate chat with Helen Bourke-Taylor – a paediatric occupational therapist and Associate Professor at Monash University’s Department of Occupational Therapy. Helen has 32 years of experience working with children with disabilities and their families in Australia and in the USA. Helen developed a focus on mothers while working with their children and completed a PhD in 2010 that investigated the health and experiences of mothers.
Since then, Helen has developed a program called Healthy Mothers Healthy Families, which is the longest-running, most effective program for mothers of children with disabilities in the world.The award-winning program offers free workshops, a free self-paced website and training for paediatric OTs to better support Pea mums. Mandy has completed the course and rated it “magic”.
Helen is passionate about supporting mothers and doesn’t intend to stop advocating for them anytime soon. She sees her role as metaphorically watering and shining sunshine onto Peas, and ensuring that they feel seen and validated in their role.
Helen, Mandy and Kate have a long, nourishing chat about the benefits and research findings of the Healthy Mothers, Healthy Families program and the vital importance of Pea mums finding time to look after their own physical and mental health and wellbeing, to ensure a healthy and happy life for their families.
Thank you so much Helen for caring for us!
Peas, sign up for the next program on the Kindred website. It’s free and designed just for you, and builds on the wisdom of over 1500 Peas that have contributed to the development and evaluation of the program over several years. Send us a speakpipe and let us know how you went.
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- View the Healthy Mothers Healthy Families website
- If you would like to learn more about support for mother-carers, visit The Carer Gateway for free counselling programs and support.
- For tools and resources to help with the way you feel, try This Way Up
- Mandy saw the movie Champions and loved it.
- Melbourne forecast for Friday 28 April – Showers developing, 21 degrees
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Kate talks about the therapeutic power of play
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Mandy and Kate chat to play and filial therapist Kate Renshaw, an author, international speaker, university scholar and mental health consultant.
She has a background in psychology, art therapy, play therapy, higher education teaching and learning, and currently works in her private practice Play and Filial Therapy.
She’s also a Pea with two children with different medical conditions and has recently ‘delivered’ her third ‘child’ (her PhD!) for assessment after eight years of research. While working as a school counsellor and studying art therapy in the UK, Kate decided to pursue play therapy as she loved working with children and families, and was passionate about the power of play.
Kate shares her journey through studying, practicing and teaching play therapy, including her experience in academic research. She’s developed evidence-based practices to support both parents and teachers in delivering play therapy at home and school.
She’s passionate about working with teachers and families, working with groups of children in Group Play Therapy, training student play therapists, contributing to play therapy research, and offering clinical supervision and professional development to registered play therapists. She’s also self-publishing a book for play therapists in 2023.
Thanks for chatting with us Kate!
- Check out the Play and Filial Therapy website
- Find Kate on Facebook
- Connect with Kate on LinkedIn
Plus:
- Kate was listening to Knowable Me podcast about online forms and Shagged Married Annoyed
- Kate was loving watching Vera
- Mandy was loving watching The Last Of Us – the third episode ‘took her breath away’ and loved the episode of Smartless featuring Wayne’s World’s Dana Carvey.
- Listen to our Spotify playlist –Too Peas: Songs Our Guest Peas Love
- Melbourne forecast for Thursday 20 April – Partly cloudy, 18 degrees
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The dead set legend, people’s princess and national-treasure-in-waiting Rosie Jones is our Amazing guest today!
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Mandy and Kate chat with the hilarious, honest and superbly talented Rosie Jones while she is in Melbourne for the comedy festival. Go buy tickets Melbourne Peas.
Get tickets here https://www.comedyfestival.com.au/2023/shows/rosie-jones
This episode is amazing, buckle in to hear about the award to top all awards, perfect vulvas and much, much more!
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“A couple of dickheads” talk about their girl Sunday
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Mandy and Kate are excited to chat with Grant and Chezzi Denyer, TV celebrities and producers, podcast hosts and Pea parents to three little girls. Their youngest daughter, Sunday, was born with hip dysplasia.
After showing Mandy and Kate his Gold Logie (!), Grant and Chezzi talk all about Sunday’s experience needing surgery, a full-body Spica cast for 12 weeks and a brace to encourage her hip joint to heal and grow into place. But how do you change an explosive nappy while your baby’s in a full-body cast? And what happens if she’s just about to take her first steps, yet she’s completely immobilised?
For Grant, coming from the “pretend land and silliness” of breakfast television and game shows, Sunday’s health challenges forced a change of perspective. Used to faking it til he made it, and having to present a fabulous, flawless, no baggage, got-your-shit-together ‘look’ for TV, Grant honestly shares his experiences of dealing with the reality of life off-camera, including some post-natal depression and anxiety, and adjusting to a new and unfamiliar life as a Dad.Chezzi also talks about her experience of hyperememis while pregnant, all while Grant was off in the jungle (literally, for I’m A Celebrity, Get Me Out Of Here!), and the amazing support she’s found amongst the hip dysplasia community.
Thank you for sharing your amazing story with us Grant and Chezzi!
- Listen to Grant and Chezzi’s podcast It’s All True?
- Follow Grant on Instagram
- Follow Chezzi on Instagram
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- Listen to our Spotify playlist –Too Peas: Songs Our Guest Peas Love
- Melbourne forecast for Thursday 13 April – Partly cloudy, 21 degrees
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Monica talks about Mimi Blankets
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Mandy and Kate chat with Monica, founder of Mimi Blankets – beautifully-made wheelchair and stroller blankets that won’t fall off!
Monica’s seven-year-old daughter Sophia is the inspiration behind it all. Sophia has a rare neurological disorder called Rett Syndrome which impacts her movement and speech. She’s smart, a much-loved little sister, has a great sense of humour, uses a wheelchair and communicates through eye gazing and her iPad.
When taken out in her wheelchair in cold and frosty Canberra, Sophia would often kick off her blankets in excitement. Monica was forever adjusting the blankets to stay tucked in! So, with an interest in sewing and a desire to create something practical and stylish, Monica decided she’d try her hand at designing and selling blankets specifically suited for use with wheelchairs and strollers.
After much trial and error with the design and manufacture, and thanks to the generous support of friends and supporters through the Kickstarter fundraising platform, Mimi Blankets was finally launched! Sophia was very involved with the process, choosing designs and helping to make executive decisions. Mimi Blankets offer a range of high-quality, warm, durable, waterproof, versatile and beautiful products, and Monica is very excited to be sharing them with the world.
- Visit Mimi Blankets website and order one today. You can also fund a blanket to a person for a person in need.
- Find them on Facebook: Mimi_Blankets_AU
- Follow them on Instagram: @Mimi_Blankets
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- Kate’s been laughing at the Betoota Advocate
- Listen to our Spotify playlist –Too Peas: Songs Our Guest Peas Love
- Melbourne forecast for Thursday 6 April – Late showers, 26 degrees
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Artist pea Clare talks about loving Lexi-Gem
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Mandy and Kate speak to artist Clare Whitney, partner of Bean Dino and mum of Lexi, a gorgeous 10-year-old with quadriplegic cerebral palsy. Lexi also has a younger sister called Summer.
Clare reflects on Lexi’s birth, after which she was hospitalised in NICU for three weeks. Lexi had suffered a stroke in utero and was soon after diagnosed with cerebral palsy. Claire then found herself on a mission to ‘cure CP’ and threw herself into research and trying multiple therapies, trying hard to provide Lexi with all the support she could find for her in those crucial first three years.
Given there was no NDIS and limited other support and funding at the time, Clare and Dino tried fundraising in order to pay for her therapies. They created this gorgeous appeal video and asked 140 people to join ‘Team Lexi Gem’ and pledge $1 a day for 365 days. Within 48 hours, they’d fundraised $80K!!
Clare is also an amazing artist and discusses her return to her visual arts practice some years after the birth of her daughters. Thanks for sharing your story with us Clare!
Check out her artwork on Instagram and her website and revise 10 years worth of the delightful Facebook page Loving Lexi-Gem
Plus:
- Mandy’s been laughing over Alanah Sabatini’s TikToks and Shrinking
- Kate’s been loving Queerstralia
- Listen to our Spotify playlist –Too Peas: Songs Our Guest Peas Love
- Melbourne forecast for Thursday 30 March – morning shower or two, 19 degrees
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