Reclaiming Disabled Kids' Futures: A Planning & Visioning Process for Every Provider with Joyner Emerick

About this episode

Joyner Emerick discusses a transformative planning process for disabled children and shares valuable outcomes for implementation.

We all know that the plans and goals that we write deeply impact what our students and clients get access to learning. Joyner Emerick – a parent and openly Autistic school board director - has completely transformed the planning process in the best possible way. Joyner has a 10 year old who is minimally speaking with high adaptive and communication support needs. In this episode, you'll hear them talk about the future visioning process they created for their child. They’ll show you how it works, how you can implement it, and the 12 valued outcomes - as Joyner calls them - that they wrote for their son. This is not a process that's for sale. We're sharing it with you in its entirety so you can take it and use it in your work too. Don't miss the show notes for this one where we share a lot of the documents, and details, and language at learnplaythrive.com/podcast. Want MORE EPISODES of Two Sides of the Spectrum, recorded Q&As with our guests, and a listener chat forum? We just launched our Patreon and we need your support! Join our community at patreon.com/learnplaythrive

People in this episode

Host: Meg Ferrell

Guest: Joyner Emerick

Topics covered

• disability
• education
• planning
• autism
• support needs
• visioning process

Keywords

• disabled kids
• planning process
• autistic
• communication support
• future visioning
• education

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: learnplaythrive.com, patreon.com

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