The Middletown Centre for Autism Podcast

The Middletown Podcast features interviews with leading thinkers and practitioners across the autistic and autism community. Conversations are autism-affirming and neurodiversity-informed with a focus on the lived experience and knowledge of our community. Episodes highlight issues impacting autistic people and we share ideas for family members and school staff who are providing support.

The Middletown Centre for Autism Podcast is a education podcast hosted by Middletown Autism, with 104 episodes on record and a Required Pod Score of 80. PitchCentric scores this show on Booking Probability, Listen Score, and live audience signals refreshed every 24 hours.

Middletown Autism hosts The Middletown Centre for Autism Podcast, a education show with 104 episodes published.

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  Susan Madigan, OT: Starting University As An Autistic Student

  Aug 12, 202629 min

  Send us Fan Mail In the first of two back-to-university episodes, we chat to Clinical Specialist Occupational Therapist, Susan Madigan. Susan has years of experience working with autistic students in universities. In this episode we discuss the challenges and many joys that autistic students might experience when they are just starting out in their college or university life. Susan shares lots of practical tips! You can find out more about her work here: https://www.susanmadigan.ie/

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  Oisin - Advocating for Non-Speaking Autistic People

  Jul 29, 202611 min

  Send us Fan Mail In this episode we share time with Oisin, a young autistic advocate who is working to improve the education system for all autistic people. Oisin is non-speaking, so Noel, Oisin’s carer, read the answers that Oisin wrote to our questions. Oisin shares his thoughts on advocacy for non-speaking people and how we should all challenge our assumptions about people who communicate in different ways.

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  Understanding Autistic Play And Break Times with Jenny Gibson

  Jun 17, 202624 min

  Break time can look like freedom from the outside, but for many autistic students it can feel like the most demanding part of the day: unstructured social rules, sensory overload, and nowhere obvious to recharge or recover. In this episode, we're joined by Jenny Gibson, a researcher at the University of Cambridge, to get specific about why play matters and what schools can do to make playtime and lunch time genuinely inclusive.

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  The SPACE Framework For Education with Aoife Munroe and Elaine McGoldrick

  May 26, 20261 hourS0

  <p>In the latest episode of the Middletown Podcast, we chat to Elaine McGoldrick and Aoife Munroe about how they have adapted the SPACE Framework for an education setting. The framework is a neuroaffirming guide for professionals that are supporting autistic people. They share practical tips founded in the framework to guide educators to better understand and support autistic experience. </p>

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  Understanding Consent and Sex Education with Niamh Mellerick

  Mar 4, 202646 minS0

  <p>In the latest episode of the Middletown Podcast we chat to Niamh Mellerick from AsIAm about their recent report focusing on consent and sex education in Ireland. They collaborated with the Dublin Rape Crisis Centre and the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland to learn more about how autistic people learn about and understand consent. Niamh shares their findings and practical ideas to support an understanding of consent for young people. </p>

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