Season 1

Dec. 30, 2019

XPN Holiday Show 2019

XPN Holiday Show 2019

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Dec. 16, 2019

Monetize Your Blog: 3 Speech Therapists Share Their Stories

Monetize Your Blog: 3 Speech Therapists Share Their Stories

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Dec. 2, 2019

Speech Therapists Create Podcasts to Educate, Support, and Connect!

Speech Therapists Create Podcasts to Educate, Support, and Connect!

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Nov. 18, 2019

An Innovative Approach to Designing Adaptive Clothing with Samanta Bu…

An Innovative Approach to Designing Adaptive Clothing with Samanta Bullock

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Nov. 4, 2019

Inclusion in the World of Acting with Danny Woodburn

Inclusion in the World of Acting with Danny Woodburn

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Oct. 21, 2019

Building a Company around Accessible Accommodation with Srin Madipalli

Building a Company around Accessible Accommodation with Srin Madipalli

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Oct. 7, 2019

Martyn Sibley Joins the Show: New Format, Same Great Information

Martyn Sibley Joins the Show: New Format, Same Great Information

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Sept. 30, 2019

Why Podcasting? With Mai Ling Chan

This week, our host, Mai Ling Chan, is in the hot seat. The roles are reversed as fellow Xceptional Podcast Network host, Matt Hott of Speech Science takes the mic to interview Mai Ling. She talks with Matt about what …

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Sept. 23, 2019

Strong Foundations Build Leadership with Sara Simpson

Strong Foundations Build Leadership with Sara Simpson

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Sept. 16, 2019

Autism Parent Takes Advocacy to the Next Level with Catherine Hughes

Autism Parent Takes Advocacy to the Next Level with Catherine Hughes

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Sept. 9, 2019

Mom Writes the First Autism Sourcebook with Karen Siff Exkorn

Mom Writes the First Autism Sourcebook with Karen Siff Exkorn

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Sept. 2, 2019

An Exceptional Teenage Life with Cassidy Huff

We are joined on the show today by the multi-talented, young Cassidy Huff. She is a singer/songwriter, musician, and a voiceover artist for Dreamworks and Amazon. Cassidy has a rare disease which has resulted in her undergoing dozens of surgeries, …

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Aug. 26, 2019

Special Speech Therapy Nonprofit with Amanda Charney

Speech-language pathologist, Amanda Charney, is our guest today. Amanda founded Small Steps in Speech, an organization that provides grants to families with children with speech and language disorders who are either not covered or not fully covered by...

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Aug. 19, 2019

Special Education Coaching Online with Catherine Whitcher

IEP Coach and international speaker, Catherine Whitcher, is our guest today. Catherine is an expert at helping educators and parents create IEPs that fit their specific needs and she teaches others her methods through online and in-person training....

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Aug. 12, 2019

Building and Nurturing Life Through Community with Kenny Salvini

Kenny Salvini is our guest today to share about his journey since a skiing accident made him a quadriplegic as a young adult. After a meeting with other individuals with similar disabilities opened his eyes to the importance of community, …

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Aug. 5, 2019

Independence and Universal Design with Todd Stabelfeldt

Entrepreneur, computing technology expert, and universal design advocate, Todd Stabelfeldt, is our guest today. Todd is a C4 quadriplegic who is passionate about discovering new ways for disabled individuals to gain more independence. He shares the...

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July 29, 2019

Breaking All Gaming Barriers with Steven Spohn

Steven Spohn is our guest today and he began his journey in the world of accessible gaming as a gamer with disabilities himself. He’s now an author and the Chief Operations Officer and Community Outreach Director for the AbleGamers Foundation....

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July 22, 2019

Game-Based Learning with Steve Isaacs

Steve Isaacs joins us today to talk about using gaming in the classroom. He clarifies the difference between gamification and game-based learning, shares his insights as a game design and development teacher, and speaks about his involvement with...

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July 15, 2019

Social Research Related to Neurodiverse Gaming with Dr. Kathryn Ringl…

Dr. Kathryn Ringland joins Mai Ling to share with us how she used the Autcraft Minecraft server as a research environment to learn first-hand how it was benefitting autistic kids. In addition to sharing what she learned from the research …

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July 8, 2019

Dad Makes Gaming Safe AND Fun with Stuart Duncan

Stuart Duncan runs the Minecraft server, Autcraft, and he is with us on the show to share his experiences with us. Autcraft is a Minecraft environment created especially for kids of all ages with autism to play the game in …

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July 1, 2019

Adaptive Gaming with Erin Hawley

Blogger and gamer Erin Hawley is our guest today. Erin has muscular dystrophy which can inhibit her gaming so she shares with us her strategy for choosing new game titles, the story of how she began working with Microsoft on …

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June 24, 2019

Journey to 10M Non-Profit with Abigail David and Erin Nealy

Abigail David and Erin Nealy are the co-founders and co-executive directors of Bridgeway Academy in Columbus Ohio and they are our guests on today’s episode. Bridgeway is a non-profit educational institution created to serve children with autism and...

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June 17, 2019

Writing and Producing Disability Focused TV Shows with Peggy Lane

Our guest today is television and film actress, Peggy Lane. Peggy is the creator and director of the web TV show, Donna On The Go, which highlights the struggles of a person with disabilities in a comedic way. She talks …

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June 10, 2019

Jazz, Autism, and Life Skills with Ifunanya Nweke

Ifunanya Nweke is our guest today. She is the founder of Jazz Hands for Autism, an organization that works with musicians who are on the autism spectrum to help them hone their skills and find work doing what they love. …

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