Shannon Korza, Brittney Crabtree, Tash Dillmon, and Jean Mayer
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The Moms Talk Autism Podcast is for parents raising children with special needs. We are four moms, all with autistic children and other neurodivergence. Teaching a special needs child to navigate the world around them comes with challenges and struggles. We want to talk about those challenges openly with you and others. We discuss grief, school, family balance, siblings, therapies, social conversations, behaviors, delays, diagnosis advocation, and marriage. We do not hold degrees in medicine or neuroscience, nor are we special education teachers, but we are experts in raising our kids and figuring out everything as we go. Think of...
Based on 6 episodes we listened to · September 2026
Candid host conversations and grounded guest stories make autism parenting's daily decisions, pressures and possibilities easier to name.
Moms Talk Autism turns autism parenting into a candid group conversation, with Brittany, Jean, Shannon and Tosh moving between their own family experiences and interviews with guests.
One awful school day leaves you with a usable sentence: "I'm not ready to talk."
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Warm, unvarnished company for the hard middle of autism parenting.
This episode is a candid, loose-knit look at autism parenting, moving from diagnosis grief to sick-day detective work and the steady strain of trying to read a child who cannot always say what hurts.
A warm case for sisterhood and support in autism parenting.
Moms Talk Autism presents autism diagnosis as a story of rebuilding, grounded in the voices of Jessica and Susanna from the We Are Brave Together podcast trio.
A candid parent conversation about autism, college plans, housing, and the uncertainty that comes with a major transition.
This episode stays with the everyday strain of parenting a child with autism, especially as a son heads to BYU Provo and the family sorts through housing, a relationship, and the start of a new school year.
A hopeful autism-and-work story that feels earned, not polished.
Tom frames the episode as a family story before an employment story, tying his path to growing up with an autistic sibling and to building jobs for autistic and other neurodivergent people.
Warm, candid parenting talk that favors company over polish.
Moms Talk Autism Podcast starts with an easy, kitchen table feel. The hosts move from banter to random questions and then into steadier talk about dads, advocacy, and what it means to listen well when autism changes family life.
A mother's account of discovering knowledge that speech had not made visible.
Lori Rogers' account of finding a different way to communicate with her son gives the episode its emotional center. She describes a visit to a practitioner in Rhode Island, where her son is asked to spell answers with a pencil and board. His response to a question about Dr.
A candid roundtable on belonging, performative inclusion, and protecting a family's limited bandwidth.
Moms Talk Autism takes up the slippery idea of inclusion, with Jean, Shannon, and Brittany moving from the hope for community into the harder question of whether tolerance or performative inclusion can ever feel like real belonging for a child and family.
A practical conversation about supporting autistic children while respecting parents as the experts.
Grandparenting here is framed less as affection in the abstract than as support parents can actually use. Brittany and Jean's conversation with Jen Kaufman centers on autism, family help, and the slow work of adjusting expectations.
Jonquilyn Hill chases one listener question per episode to the experts who can answer it.
Hard conversations, patiently held, with room to laugh.
Fearne Cotton interviews guests like Boy George and Bryony Gordon about mental health and identity.
Dr. Joy Harden Bradford pairs therapy insight with Black TV recaps, maternal health, and history.
Four moms discuss the challenges and joys of raising children with autism and other neurodivergence.
Moms Talk Autism brings Jessica, founder and CEO of We Are Brave Together, and Susanna, a Brave Together co-host and Los Angeles connection-circle leader, into a conversation about caregiving moms.
Temple Grandin's live lecture is the sharpest thread in Moms Talk Autism Podcast, where Brittany says Grandin linked puberty, anxiety, low-dose antidepressants, and thinking in pictures.
Moms Talk Autism Podcast's community-story episode follows Tosh interviewing Tom about Rising Tide Car Wash and autism employment after his brother Andrew's diagnosis in 1992.
Moms Talk Autism opens with Shannon's "murdery things" answer, Brittany's habit of replaying old mistakes, and Tosh's sleep question game recorded in Tucson during rodeo break.
Lori Rogers describes raising Craig in Nashua, New Hampshire, after his 1993 diagnosis at age two and a half, initially labeled PDD-NOS.
Jean, Shannon, and Brittany discuss why autism inclusion may be better understood as belonging rather than participation in every setting.
Jen Kaufman, an autism-school principal in northern New Jersey, explains how her grandson Ben’s diagnosis changed her understanding of grandparenting.
Moms Talk Autism Podcast examines how parents can disrupt, rather than permanently solve, recurring overwhelm caused by stacked pressures.
Hosts interview authors of a children's book about autism, discussing parenting challenges and neurodivergence.
A podcast for parents raising children with autism, featuring expert interviews and open discussions about challenges and strategies.
Four moms discuss the challenges of parenting autistic children, focusing on puberty and big emotions.
Moms discuss autism parenting challenges and interview a doctor about his research and personal experience with autism.
Four moms discuss the challenges of raising children with autism and other neurodivergence, covering topics like grief, school, therapies, and advocacy.