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Welcome to Let's Talk About Super Special Kids and Cake the podcast for parents of children with special needs. During each Podcast Professor Rhea Paul Paul and Dr. Donia Fahim cover a topic of interest to parents and families of children with Special needs. They also answer questions sent to them by one of their listeners and they share their thoughts on some common misconceptions about interventions for children with special developmental delays and neurodevelopmental difficulties. Both Granny Rhea and Auntie Donia love cake! The eating cake for breakfast segment is all about the fun activities you can do at home with your super special kids. So make yourself a cup of tea, grab yourself a…
Assessment scores first, cake afterward: Granny Rhea and Auntie Donya know you need both.
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A steady orientation to the questions, professionals, and observations behind toddler autism assessment.
Questions about a toddler who is not talking can feel frighteningly uncertain, and this episode gives that worry a steadier path toward evaluation. Granny Ria and Aunty Donya make room for a key distinction: delayed speech does not automatically mean autism.
A careful look at gestalt language processing, stage models, and what gradual language growth could mean for therapy.
Gestalt language processing gets a thoughtful, skeptical pass here, with Dr. Hutchins questioning whether autistic language development really fits a fixed stage model.
A clear, warm guide to assessment report language, verbal and non-verbal scores, and asking the team for clarity.
Dr. Rhea Paul and Dr. Donya Fahim make psychological assessment reports feel more manageable for families facing unfamiliar scores, labels, and technical wording.
A grounded look at autistic girls, selective mutism, and signs adults may overlook.
Granny Rhea and Auntie Donya give girls and autism a careful, grounded treatment, focusing on how autistic girls may present in less expected ways: hyper-social, aware of social needs, eager to be accepted, and wanting friends.
A warm, wide-ranging conversation that links bilingual language learning with the stubborn practicalities of car safety.
Granny Rhea and Auntie Donya give bilingualism a practical, family-facing frame, separating children raised with two languages from birth from sequential bilingualism, where a child starts with one home language and learns another later.
Camp Menominee, remembered out loud.
Intentional wellness with bright practical momentum.
Calm, practical feeding help for early eaters.
A classical Christian school talks shop with its parents.
Granny Ria and Aunty Donya use Let's Talk About Super Special Kids & Cake to answer whether a toddler who is not talking is autistic or simply a late talker.
Let's Talk About Super Special Kids & Cake focuses on gestalt language processing (GLP), delayed echolalia, and whether Natural Language Acquisition (NLA) should guide therapy for autistic children.
Hosts discuss special education topics and interview a speech-language pathologist about communication supports for children with autism.
Granny Rhea and Auntie Donya say children with special needs can learn more than one language, and they cite an Associated Press figure that 66% of the world grows up bilingually.
Granny Rhea and Auntie Donya, speaking from Sacred Heart University in Fairfield, Connecticut, say girls with autism are often missed because hyper-social behavior can hide the diagnosis.
A 36th-percentile score, a long assessment report, and the verbal-versus-non-verbal question anchor Let's Talk About Super Special Kids & Cake's What to Expect During Your Child's Assessment.
This episode features an interview with speech-language pathologist Susan Berkman about augmentative and alternative communication (AAC) for children with autism.