Dismantling Racism & Ableism with Lydia X. Z. Brown

06/17/20 • 31 min

Lydia X. Z. Brown is an autistic attorney and disability justice advocate who specifically focuses on violence against multiply-marginalized disabled people. In this episode, join us as we:

Dive deep into how white supremacy and white privilege play out for autistic kids

Learn how systematic racism and trauma impact the diagnosis and treatment of autistic kids, including the unexamined racism of many OTs

Explore the role that police and prisons play in the schools and lives of autistic black, brown, indigenous, Asian, and POC kids

Discuss concrete steps OTs can take to become anti-racist in their work

View show notes and transcript at learnplaythrive.com/podcast

Lydia X. Z. Brown is an autistic attorney and disability justice advocate who specifically focuses on violence against multiply-marginalized disabled people. In this episode, join us as we:

Dive deep into how white supremacy and white privilege play out for autistic kids

Learn how systematic racism and trauma impact the diagnosis and treatment of autistic kids, including the unexamined racism of many OTs

Explore the role that police and prisons play in the schools and lives of autistic black, brown, indigenous, Asian, and POC kids

Discuss concrete steps OTs can take to become anti-racist in their work

View show notes and transcript at learnplaythrive.com/podcast

Previous Episode

The Double Empathy Problem with Dr. Damian Milton

Damian Milton is an autistic researcher whose idea spawned a huge shift in how we think about autism. In this episode, listen in as we explore:

How Damian developed his hypothesis that the trouble with empathy and social skills is a two-way street between autistic and non-autistic people, not a deficit of autistic people

What early research Damian did to confirm this hypothesis

One thing Damian would love to see OTs stop doing with social stories and comic strip interventions with autistic clients

A tip for how to better approach sensory processing challenges with autistic kids, with a cautionary tale from his own life

View show notes and transcript at learnplaythrive.com/podcast

Next Episode

A Strengths-Based Approach to Autism Interventions with Dr. Kristie Patten

Kristie Patten is the chair of the Department of Occupational Therapy at New York University whose cutting-edge work focuses on using strength-based approaches in autism. Join us in this episode as we delve into:

How most OTs wound up using a deficits-based model with autistic kids and why this is not serving our clients well

Why we should move away from withholding kids' interests from them. We'll also talk about how first-then schedules and even limiting screen time may fall into this category

How we can support autistic clients to build from their strengths to support their joy and participation in life, leisure, and work

What we should be doing instead of social skills groups

Why it's really easy to be a bad therapist and really hard to be a good one (plus some concrete steps to take to help get us there!)

View show notes and transcript at learnplaythrive.com/podcast