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Parenting Done Differently Episode 0: Introducing Parenting Done Differently
(2022-08-02) Aunos, Marjorie
Marjorie invites us all to stay open to possibilities and reflect on our own positioning and values. She then introduces us to the world of Parents and Parenting with Disabilities.
Parenting Done Differently Episode 10: Reflections of Adult Children of Mothers with Intellectual Disabilities
(2022-12-15) Aunos, Marjorie; Bachrach, Tammy
In this episode, Marjorie interviews Tammy Bachrach, a researcher and adult child of parents with intellectual disabilities. Tammy speaks to her research interviewing adult children of parents with IDD and her own lived expertise. Her perspective and multitude of experience should be really interesting to child welfare workers working with parents and children!
Parenting Done Differently Episode 11: Advocacy & Support
(2023-01-05) Aunos, Marjorie; Hodes, Marja
In this episode, Marjorie speaks with Marja Hodes, a clinical psychologist from the Netherlands with extensive experience working with parents with intellectual disabilities. Her frame of mind is about finding appropriate ways to support parents and continuously staying open to their lived expertise. Together with her colleagues, Marja developed a toolkit “Talking About Children” (and earned a national award). This toolkit supports future parents with intellectual disabilities to think carefully about the consequences of having and raising a child.
Parenting Done Differently Episode 12: Intersectionality and Parenting
(2023-01-09) Aunos, Marjorie; Pacheco, Laura
In episode 12, Laura Pacheco brings forward the importance of understanding a family's culture to better understand their experience, goals and aspirations and know how to best support them. She speaks briefly about Tim and Wendy Booth's legacy and how they influenced her way of conducting research and practice. Dr. Laura Pacheco is an assistant professor in the School of Social Work and Memorial University and adjunct professor at McGill University’s school of social work. Her current projects are related to how mothers with intellectual disabilities are negatively constructed and treated within the child welfare court system and workers’ needs in supporting parents with intellectual disabilities in order to build systems capacity.
Parenting Done Differently Episode 13: Supporting Workers
(2023-02-02) Aunos, Marjorie; Tarleton, Beth
In episode 13, Marjorie speaks with Beth Tarleton, who believes that workers need to be empowered to do their job. She talks about her orientation has always been to look for new ways to train, infuse knowledge and support the workers who support the parents. Beth Tarleton is a senior lecturer at the University of Bristol. Beth has been researching positive support for parents with learning disabilities (intellectual disabilities) and milder learning difficulties since 2005. Beth is co-ordinator of the Working Together with Parents Network which shares positive practice about working with parents with a learning disability/difficulty.
Parenting Done Differently Episode 14: Understanding the Legal Aspects of Parenting & Disabilities (Part 1)
(2023-02-16) Aunos, Marjorie; Callow, Ella
In part 1 of this two-part episode, Ella Callow speaks about the law pertaining to the rights of parents with disabilities and the intersection of parenting, disability and the Indian Child Welfare Act (ICWA). She points out the systemic discrimination that is still pervasive in many states and other parts of the world. Ella’s lens as a member of an Indigenous community and experience as a lawyer working with parents with disabilities will be useful for child welfare workers.
Parenting Done Differently Episode 15: Understanding the Intersection of Parenting, Disabilities within First Nations Communities (Part 2)
(2023-03-02) Aunos, Marjorie; Callow, Ella
In episode fifteen part 2, Ella Callow speaks more with Marjorie about the law pertaining to the rights of parents with disabilities and the intersection of parenting, disability, and the Indian Child Welfare Act (ICWA). She discusses Native people’s experiences of disability in their community and how explicit or implicit bias about disability and an inability to parent leads to detrimental decisions for families. At 34 minutes, listen to the story of Ella’s fondest memories with her grandfather.
Parenting Done Differently Episode 16: Attitudes Towards Motherhood of Women with Disabilities
(2023-03-16) Aunos, Marjorie; Shpligelman, Carmit-Noa
In episode sixteen, Marjorie speaks with Carmit-Noa Shpligelman. Carmit is a mom by choice and a woman with a disability. She discusses her research on the attitudes of workers towards the parenthood of parents with disabilities. In their work with children and families, child welfare workers can learn from Carmit’s incredible lived experience and applicable research.
Parenting Done Differently Episode 17: The Faults in Our Systems
(2023-03-29) Aunos, Marjorie; Bjorg Sigurjondsottir, Hanna; Rice, Jim
Hanna Bjorg Sigurjondsottir and Jim Rice have extensive knowledge of the Child Welfare System in Iceland. In episode 17, they speak to the faults and preconceived biases that the system can impose and how detrimental it can be, especially to parents with intellectual disabilities.
Parenting Done Differently Episode 18: Slipping Through the Cracks
(2023-04-13) Aunos, Marjorie; Lightfoot, Liz
In episode 18, Liz Lightfoot speaks about Parents with Disabilities slipping through the cracks and not receiving the support they require. She talks about the need to change practices within the child welfare system and dreams of implementing a national training curriculum for social workers that would include dissemination of knowledge around parenting with a disability.
Parenting Done Differently Episode 19: After They Are Gone
(2023-04-27) Aunos, Marjorie; Mayes, Rachel
In episode 19, guest Rachel Mayes looked at one thing that not many thought of focusing on: the grief response of parents with disabilities who lost custody of their children.
Parenting Done Differently Episode 1: Once Upon A Time...
(2022-08-05) Aunos, Marjorie
Reflections on what becoming a mom with a physical disability has changed in my perspective as a researcher & practitioner who works with parents with intellectual disabilities.
Parenting Done Differently Episode 20: Reproductive Violence
(2023-05-12) Aunos, Marjorie; Powell, Robyn
Robyn Powell speaks about the discrimination persons with disabilities face when it comes to their right to have and create their family the way they see fit. She talks about how ableism is ingrained into child welfare and how this system should be completely remodeled.
Parenting Done Differently Episode 21: Pregnancy, Quadriplegia & a Pandemic
(2023-05-26) Aunos, Marjorie; Izzie, Dani
In episode 21, Marjorie speaks with Dani Izzie. Dani is a disability advocate and wheelchair user and a new mom to twins. She is the subject and producer of the documentary film, “Dani’s Twins,” about pregnancy and motherhood as a quadriplegic during the pandemic.
Parenting Done Differently Episode 22: Representation in Numbers
(2023-06-17) Aunos, Marjorie; Brown, Hillary
In episode 22, Hilary Brown presents her groundbreaking data around pregnancy rates in women with all kinds of disabilities. She brings forward data from large datasets and complements them with some elements of qualitative data Lesley Tarasoff has collected.
Parenting Done Differently Episode 23: Reproductive and Perinatal Disparities
(2023-06-21) Aunos, Marjorie; Tarasoff, Lesley
In episode 23, Marjorie speaks with Lesley Tarasoff. Lesley has interviewed several parents with different disabilities about the disparities they faced pre, during, and post pregnancy. She shares the insight she gained while speaking to them.
Parenting Done Differently Episode 24: Child Attachment and Maternal Sensitivity
(2023-07-06) Aunos, Marjorie; Forslund, Tommie
In episode 24, Tommie Forslund talks about how he and his colleagues have used the lens of child attachment and maternal sensitivity to view the parenting of mothers with intellectual disabilities. He also talks about the importance of taking into account contextual factors, such as the parents’ experiences of abuse and maltreatment, in order to intervene and provide support more efficaciously.
Parenting Done Differently Episode 25: We've Got This!
(2023-07-20) Aunos, Marjorie; Hull, Eliza
In Episode 25, Marjorie speaks with Eliza Hull, musician, writer and disability advocate. She was the 8-parts-series podcast host of We've Got This and is the editor behind the books of the same title that brings forward the stories of families headed by one or two parents with disabilities in an Australian, US and UK edition.
Parenting Done Differently Episode 26: A Parenting Legacy
(2023-08-02) Aunos, Marjorie; LaLiberte, Traci
In this episode Marjorie Aunos and Dr. Traci LaLiberte reflect on the Parenting Done Differently Podcast. In this series Marjorie interviewed over 20 scholars and researchers in the field along with parents with disabilities and the children of parents with disabilities. Marjorie and Traci speak about the importance of providing tools for professionals who work in child welfare and looking for answers where we least expect them.
Parenting Done Differently Episode 3: Parenting Education and Interventions
(2022-09-01) Aunos, Marjorie; Feldman, Maurice
Maurice Feldman explains to us how the general principles of applied behavioral analysis has led to the creation of some important parenting education programs and a framework around assessing parenting capacity of parents with IDD.