I See The Potential
Great interview with Stephanie Harlan from AIM (Autism Insurance in Michigan) and Autism ASK about the motivation for her strong advocacy efforts concerning Autism Insurance Reform, in addition to, her own families Autism success story. This clip actually starts with part of the testimony given by her son Justin Harlan to the Michigan House when [...]
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Just A Reminder … That the Conference isn’t until March 12, 2011 but tickets are selling quickly now …. so don’t miss out on the Wrightslaw Special Education Law & Advocacy Early Bird Tickets! The early birds are grabbing up the tickets to the Wrightslaw conference. We did a slow roll out yesterday just to [...]
Last week we had the pleasure of interviewing Lt. Governor candidate Brian Calley. While our original plan was to have a politics heavy show (afterall, he’s a politician and this is an election), it was a story from Mr. Calley in the beginning of the interview, concerning the diagnosis of his young daughter with Autism, [...]
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After a couple of weeks covering education and school topics (including the need for reforming the school lunch program and the reforms modeled in the movie and book “Waiting For Superman” ) and arguing the need, especially in this election, to not only make informed decisions but then hold these politicians accountable we figured it was [...]
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On Sunday, August 1st we had the opportunity to interview MI Gubernatorial hopeful Rick Snyder. We were able to hit many topics that, based on reader and listener feedback, you told us were important to you and other parents and grandparents out there including: business leadership vs political leadership, education, public private partnerships in education, [...]
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I support the idea of Autism Insurance legislation. But I’ll confess that I struggle with it…quite a bit actually. I consider myself a libertarian leaning conservative so in my opinion the smaller, less intrusive we can get our government to be the better. So, for obvious reasons my support of the idea of mandated Autism [...]
Gerard Mantese (Mantese, Honigman, Rossman and Williamson) and John J. Conway are on the front lines of the Autism Insurance fight in the state of Michigan. However, unlike those that are fighting for legislation to require Autism coverage these lawyers are fighting in the courtrooms to get the Insurance companies to cover the children that, [...]
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We aired our interview with Lorri Unumb from Autism Speaks this past Sunday, however, we weren’t able to cover everything that we wanted to. You see Lorri was extremely gracious to move her schedule around to allow us the opportunity to pre-record our interview with her last week for our Sunday show. Originally the plan [...]
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On Sunday June 6th we discussed the raging debate over Autism Insurance. It’s a battle raging in the courts, classrooms, therapy centers, doctors offices, legislator’s offices ….. and living rooms across this country, including right here in Michigan. The battle is being fought by parents on two fronts. On the first front is the push [...]
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This weekend on The My Great Kid Radio show we’ll be talking about Autism Insurance from two angles: Autism Insurance Lawsuits – Blue Cross Blue Shield has suffered two significant losses in the past year concerning their mistreatment of children with Autism. This weekend we’ll be talking to the lawyer that beat them in those [...]
Insurance News – Blue Cross to Pay $125,000 in Ground-Breaking Settlement for Autism Care It’s not getting much (any?) attention anywhere in the media but yesterday the ground shifted in the Autism Insurance battle that’s been battling for years in states across this country. When you buy insurance you buy it to protect yourself from [...]
Oh boy …. here we go. I’ve been waiting for this study to come out after hearing the previews of it’s pending arrival for a week now. Early Treatment Doesn’t Help Autism Symptoms I’ve been involved in the world of Autism for over 12 years now and I KNOW this is wrong ….. so how [...]
How Do We Keep Our Kids Safe? This week’s show was a doubleheader with two great interviews both dealing with that same question. First up was the husband and wife team of Carolyn and Andrew Gammicchia founders of the organization L.E.A.N. On Us whose stated mission is to: Podcast: Play in new window | Download
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We shared the air with health care advocate and Vaccine expert Mary Tocco on April 18th and Mary shared with us a TON of useful information, stats, facts and figures about the US Vaccine program. I know this is one of those lightning rod topics. It seems the whole Podcast: Play in new window | [...]
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Great interviews this week! Jim Amick from Nordic Naturals, who is one of the show sponsors but he’s one of the show sponsors because we’ve been long time fans of Nordic Naturals Fish Oils, joined us to tell us a little bit about fish oils and the Nordic Natural products. You hear all the time [...]
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We’re hearing lots of hype about the Apple Ipad this week and I have to admit that after checking one out myself it’s a pretty impressive little tool. The question of course is …. what kind of tool is it really? It’s easy to criticize it as just a blown up IPod, Ipod Touch, Iphone, [...]
