The Leena Sarah Farhat Interview

05/21/23 • 62 min

Leena Sarah Farhat (She/They) chats to Autisticly Aar about her diagnoses of autism, about how they masked and how people underestimate the talents of Autistic people sharing the unique skills and advantages to focused interests to autistic community and relationships.

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The Rachel Winder Interview Two

Rachel Winder (She/Her) returns to chat to Autisticly Aar about her campaign and petition for the British government to introduce a statutory regulator and governing body to improve the care and interventions that autistic people are faced with. When national scandals and trauma stories of abuse continue to be told. She answers what it would mean to fix regulation were it fails to be regulated and the needed checks and balances and easy to access support where there isn't. Answering her one thing to make things better for neurodivergent people

Rachel's Social Media:@auticulate (Twitter and TikTok)

Neuro Rainbow Project's Social Media: @neurorainbowproject (Facebook/Instagram/TikTok and YouTube) @NeuroRainbowUk on twitter

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View the petition: https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/637183

Podcast Host and Producer: Aaron J Williams, Aaron Audio Production for Neuro Rainbow Project

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The Emily Price Interview

Autistic speech and language therapist Emily Price (She/Her) discusses her profession as a speech and language therapist, the communicative differences of neurodivergent people and what use does speech and language therapy have for neurodivergent people. She also discussed her autism diagnoses that came after she qualified as a speech and language experience and talks of her own diagnoses. Emily speaks clear of her privilege and position in her field never having been referred to such therapies herself after late discovery of being neurodivergent whilst she provides training and indirect support and advocacy work for those who work with neurodivergent people and provides supervision and training for those in her field. She highlights whilst she receives requests of autistic parents and guardians and support her work is focused and working with autistic/neurodivergent adults and providing indirect support and not specialising on the therapies tailored to younger service users under the age of 10.

CW: Mild minor references to body dysmorphia and eating disorders. Helpful services for action, advice and support can be found on www.neurorainbowproject.com

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Twitter:@NeuroRainbowUK

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Host: Aar Jae Williams

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