FASD Hope is a podcast series about Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder (FASD), through the lens of parent advocates with over twenty years of lived experience.
Episode 158 of FASD Hope explores a controversial topic: the School to Prison Pipeline (STPP). The STPP or SPP is the significantly increased tendency of students from disadvantaged backgrounds, students with brain-based diagnoses, developmental disabilities and BIPOC students to become involved in the juvenile justice system. In today's episode, discussing the STPP and it's implications for students with brain-based diagnoses (including FASD, Autism, ADHD, etc.) is Dr. Deanna Westedt.
Dr. Deanna Westedt received a doctorate in curriculum and instruction and spent 22 years in education. Currently, she homeschools and provides guidance for families, both homeschooled and traditionally schooled. She has a special passion for twice-exceptional students and providing learning that goes outside of a classroom box. Her insights into twice-exceptionality have been featured in publications and venues such as Psychology Today, Future First Education, and CABE. Dr. Westedt’s research was featured in AERA 2020. However, her best accomplishment is that of the growth her boys made during their time in homeschooling so far, where her ideas on how to accommodate their special combination of giftedness and learning disabilities paid off. She currently provides coaching and writing sessions, as well as specializes in early literacy that can be blended into any type of setting. Additionally, she provides parent sessions, diagnostics, and flexible differentiation training for homeschool/ educational organizations.
In this highly informative and thought-provoking episode, Dr. Westedt shares the following: her professional background, her family's journey, her passion for creating academic equity for all students, how she became aware of the STPP, how students with brain-based diagnoses (including FASD) become even more susceptible to getting involved in the STPP, addressing how the traditional cycle of discipline reinforces the STPP (especially for students with developmental disabilities & brain-based diagnoses), how a systemic shift is required to break this cycle, how to better support those students involved in the STPP / JJ systems and her words of hope for listeners.
"Trust in the LORD with all your heart, And lean not on your own understanding; In all your ways acknowledge Him, And He shall direct your paths." - Proverbs: 5-6
EPISODE RESOURCES -
Dr. Deanna Westedt - https://deannawestedt.com/
info@deannawestedt.com
Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/drwestedt
Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/dr.deannawestedt/
LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/deanna-westedt-ed-d-64a2741b1/
FASD Hope Resources -
https://www.fasdhope.com/
natalie@fasdhope.com
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Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/fasdhope1
Twitter - https://twitter.com/fasdhope
LinkedIn- https://www.linkedin.com/in/natalie-vecchione-17212160/
HOPE FOR THE FASD JOURNEY ONLINE COMMUNITY - Co-Lead By Natalie Vecchione and Sandra Flach -
Hope for the FASD Journey is a faith-based, membership support community for parents and caregivers of individuals prenatally exposed to alcohol and other substances. Led by Natalie Vecchione of the FASD Hope Podcast and Sandra Flach of the Adoption & Foster Care Journey Podcast— 2 moms living the FASD experience. With more than 20 years of adoptive parenting each, Natalie & Sandra offer abundant knowledge and resources to provide hope to families on this journey. “
TO LEARN MORE ABOUT THE “HOPE FOR THE FASD JOURNEY COMMUNITY” OR TO SIGN UP, VISIT THE BELOW LINK -
https://www.justicefororphansny.org/hope-community
Check out our book “Blazing New Homeschool Trails: Educating and Launching Teens with Developmental Disabilities” by Natalie Vecchione & Cindy LaJoy BUY IT NOW!
179 - Three Years Later and a Plot Twist with John and Natalie Vecchione
178 - Tinderbox - A Conversation with Lynn Alsup
177 - Sip By Sip - A Candid Conversation with Patti Kasper
176 - FASD Legislative Update and Run FASD 2023 with Jenn Wisdahl and Rebecca Tillou
175 - All About FASD - FASD and Neurocounseling with Dr. Jerrod Brown
174 - An Update from the UK and Scotland with Jessica Rutherford, Ph.D. and Ailsa Clarke
173 - Dream Acres FASD Community - A Conversation with Kathryn Meinhardt
172 - FASD North Dakota - A Conversation with Carl Young
171 - A Journey of Faith and Strength - A Conversation with Liz Kulp
170 - All About FASD - Energy Drinks and FASD with Dr. Jerrod Brown
169 - FASD Legislative Update and Upcoming FASD United Events with Jennifer Wisdahl
168 - CAMP FASD - A Conversation with Nicholas Tassone and Emma Melendez-Scherer
167 - FASD Legislative Update AND Run FASD 2023 with Jennifer Wisdahl and Rebecca Tillou
166 - All About FASD - Excessive Sugar Consumption and FASD with Dr. Jerrod Brown
165 - Mom, Author and Navigator - A Conversation with Laura Bedard
164 - Welcome Back - We Need More Hope! A Conversation with Jennifer Wisdahl and Natalie Vecchione
163 - Be Still - Our Final Episode
162 - The Families and The Kids That We’ve Left Behind - A Conversation with Best Selling Author, Andrew Bridge
161 - FASCETS Friday - A Family’s Transformation with Lynn and Clare Alsup
160 - The Fellowship of Rural FASD - A Conversation with Rob More
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