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Drumbeat Autism Outreach PodcastEpisode 14: Masking (featuring Autistic Young Experts)In this episode of the podcast we invited two Autistic Young Experts from the "Drumbeat Autistic Young Experts Panel" to talk about masking. This was a very special episode because it was the first episode to have been recorded in a professional podcast recording studio. Our guests, Joseph and Olive, spoke personally and eloquently and we hope you will agree that their reponses during the interview give an incredible insight to the subject of autstic masking.
We would like to thank Jason and his company creative kin for allowing us to record in the excellent podcast studio...2024-01-261h 00Drumbeat Autism Outreach PodcastEpisode 13: Friendship (featuring students from Athelney Primary School)In this episode you will hear from 8 autstic young people from years 4 to 6 who access Athelney Primary School Resouce Base talking about their "Friendship Group". The interviews go off on wonderful tangents, but mostly focus on the subject of Frienships; what it means to be a good friend and how might we go about making friends. There is also a lot of wonderful chat around Special Interests as the young people delight in telling us all about their interests, hobbies and talents. Released during Autism Acceptance Week 2023, this podcast is the our first recording in a Primary School setting...2023-03-2748 minDrumbeat Autism Outreach PodcastEpisode 12: Anti-Bullying Week 2022Welcome to this special episode of the Drumbeat Autism Outreach podcast which has been released during Anti-Bullying Week 2022 and focuses on the prevalence of bullying in relation to autstic young people’s school experiences. We know that a very high number of autstic young people experience bullying in school and as part of Anti-Bullying week, which runs from 14th to the 18th Novmber 2022, we wanted to explore this unfortunate link between autism and bullying. In this episode you will hear a recoded conversation between Sonia Gannon (Drumbeat Lead Teacher) and Madelaine Hardy. Madeline Hardy joined Drumbeat Outreach last year as...2022-11-1429 minDrumbeat Autism Outreach PodcastEpisode 11: Anxiety (featuring students from Bonus Pastor Secondary School)In this episode of the Drumbeat Autism Outreach Podcast you will hear from 4 young people who attend Bonus Pastor Secondary School in Lewisham speaking about Anxiety. To start with you will hear from regular hosts, Charlie and Pete and also from another Drumbeat Autism Outreach team member Wendy, who organised and ran the group at Bonus Pastor. The young people offer an incredible insight into the feeling of anxiety, what might trigger them and how they manifest. They also talk about things that might help them when they are feeling anxious.
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Drumbeat Autism Outreach PodcastEpisode 10: How do we improve secondary transition experiences?In this episode of the Drumbeat Autism Outreach Podcast we continue our discussion around autstic young people;s experiences when transitioning from Primary School to Secondary School. Our excellent guest this episode is Ellena Valizadehtalks. Ellena talks us through some really interesting and important research where she interviewed autstic young people about their experiences around transitioning from primary into mainstream secondary school. Ellena introduces us to the idea of the "three houses" (which we used in Episode 9) and talks us through the findings of her research and implications for practice.
Throughout Episode 9 and 10 of the podcast the "...2022-07-051h 17Drumbeat Autism Outreach PodcastEpisode 9: Transition to Secondary School (featuring students from Deptford Green)In this episode of the Drumbeat Autism Outreach Podcast you wil hear from 14 autstic young people who go to Deptford Green Secondary School. They speak about their own experiences transitioning from Primary School to Secondary School. We are very excited to bring you this episode as it is the first full episode of the podcast focusing on the voices of young people, and it has pathed the way for future episodes!
If you want to find out more about Deptford Green Secondary School and their resources base go to https://www.deptfordgreen.lewisham.sch.uk/ and if...2022-05-1332 minDrumbeat Autism Outreach PodcastEpisode 8: Empathy & Acceptance (Autism Acceptance Week 2022 Special)Welcome to our Autism Acceptance Week 2022 podcast special. This episode is split into three parts all focusing on Empathy and Acceptance. In Part 1, co-host Pete Black recites his spoken word poem entitled "empathy", written from the persepective of an autistic young person. In Part 2 we hear from a handful of autistic young people who go to Deptford Green School who we will be hearing even more from in future episodes. And finally in Part 3 we hear excerpts from previous interviews with guests Emme Watkins, Matthew Green and Joanne Limburg which highlight the need for empathy and acceptance.
The following links a...2022-03-2230 minDrumbeat Autism Outreach PodcastEpisode 7: "The Autistic Alice" (with guest Joanne Limburg)In this weeks episode you will hear a fascinating interview with Joanne Limburg focusing on her collection of poems called the "The Autistic Alice". Joanne is a writer who has published a number of books including poetry collections for adults and children and two memoirs. Joanne received an autism diagnosis in adulthood. We invited Joanne onto the podcast to read some poems from her book "The Autistic Alice" and using these as a starting point she discusses her own experiences as a girl and young woman growing up with undiagnosed autism. As Joanne discusses in the episode, she often identified...2022-01-2558 minDrumbeat Autism Outreach PodcastEpisode 6: Mental HealthThe Drumbeat Autism Outreach Podcast is put together by a team of autism specialists working in the Lewisham area in London, and this podcast is aimed at parents and professionals living and working with autistic young people. In this episode, hosts Pete & Charlie interview Matt Green. Matt is a school counsellor who works within a specialist school supporting young people with a range of neurodiversities, including many autistic young people. Matt explores some of the main sources of anxiety amoungst the autstic young people he meets, some of the main ways in which his approach may be adapted when counselling...2021-11-2258 minDrumbeat Autism Outreach PodcastEpisode 5: Language and TerminologyThe Drumbeat Autism Outreach Podcast is put together by a team of autism specialists working in the Lewisham area in London, and this podcast is aimed at parents and professionals living and working with autistic young people. In this episode you will hear from team members Sonia, Corinne, Pete and Charlie as they explore some of the language and terminologies which are used to describe autistic people. They touch on words and phrases such a low and high functioning autism, identity first vs person first langauage and the idea of difference vs deficit.
Some usefull links from t...2021-09-1745 minDrumbeat Autism Outreach PodcastEpisode 4: Tabletop Roleplaying GamesWelcome to Episode 4 of the Drumbeat Autism Outreach Podcast. In this episode we explore tabletop role playing games, and why they might be both appealing and potentially also beneficial to some autistic people. In this episode we welcome our special guest, Emme Watkins, who joins us all the way from LA!
We want to assure you that no prior knowledge of tabletop role-playing games is required in order for you to gain something from this episode - in fact to the contrary we hope that this episode will be an introduction to listeners who know nothing of t...2021-07-221h 00Drumbeat Autism Outreach PodcastEpisode 3: Special InterestsWelcome to Episode 3 of the Drumbeat Autism Outreach Podcast. This episode is all about “special interests”. This episode contains our first podcast specific conversation which wasn’t recorded for any other purpose, and we decided to start with a topic that comes up a great deal; “special interests”. In order to explore this area in more depth we are joined once again by Sonia and Pete (who listeners to episode 1 and 2 will know between them have vast experience as professionals working in the world of autism, and between them having first hand personal experience).
During the conversation we explore...2021-07-1545 minDrumbeat Autism Outreach PodcastEpisode 2: Autism Acceptance Week 2021 - Instagram Live Interview (Part 2)Welcome the the Lewisham Autism Outreach Podcast. This podcast is particularly aimed at parents and professionals living or working with autistic young people or young people who have social and communication difficulties. This podcast is put together by a team based in Lewisham, London.
Episode 2 of the podcast looks a little like this... We begin with a Sonia Gannon, Lead teacher of drumbeat outreach, talking us through "What is Drumbeat Outreach?". We then move into Part 2 of Sonia's interview with team member Pete Black about his own autism diagnosis and adult life (for part 1 please listen to episode 1) and finally th...2021-05-2035 minDrumbeat Autism Outreach PodcastEpisode 1: Autism Acceptance Week 2021 - Instagram Live Interview (Part 1)Welcome the the Lewisham Autism Outreach Podcast. This podcast is particularly aimed at parents and professionals living or working with autistic young people or young people who have social and communication difficulties, This podcast is put together by a team based in Lewisham, London. Episode 1 of this podcast looks a little like this...
We start with a little section introducing your host, Charlie, and some of his thoughts around setting up this podcast and what we hope to achieve.
The main feature this week is part 1 of an interview with team member Pete Black who talks to lead teacher Sonia G...2021-05-1336 min