Comedian Scott Long joins to talk about being a parent of a special needs child and how you can protect your child in the public school system
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🗓️ 27 April 2023
⏱️ 15 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | It is 1131. It's kind of like Casey on 93 WIBC and several Brownsburg elementary school |
| 0:11.0 | staff members are facing charges. After police say they mistreated and failed to report |
| 0:16.6 | the mistreatment of a seven year old boy in the special education program. |
| 0:21.4 | Yeah, and we've talked about this a lot today and the total failure there. And yesterday, |
| 0:27.3 | I was going back and forth with with the good friend Scott Long. And most of you know, |
| 0:30.9 | Scott, very famous comedian locally does the sports betting show with Hammer, just a super |
| 0:36.1 | great guy. And I thought, you know, this really should be about long term. How do we ensure |
| 0:42.5 | that this stuff doesn't happen to any more special needs students across our state, our |
| 0:47.8 | country, whatever. And Scott has been quite public about his journey with Maddie, his daughter |
| 0:53.6 | who is special needs. She's become a great little celebrity and all the things she's had to |
| 0:59.3 | overcome. And Scott and his wife have been right there with her. And so I wanted to bring Scott |
| 1:04.1 | on to talk about, you know, what are things parents can look for? What are things they can do? And I |
| 1:07.9 | know he's got a big message for people. So let's go to the drive hubler.com hotline. Scott Long, |
| 1:12.3 | join us now. How are you, my friend? Hey, great. Thanks for having me on. And yeah, just a little |
| 1:18.0 | background. My daughter is 19 now. And they have programs which are great that continue through |
| 1:27.6 | basically college age of 22. So she's on the autism spectrum. And look, I'm not a therapist. And |
| 1:39.3 | I'm a trained therapist. I did not go to school to learn things in regards to, you know, people |
| 1:47.9 | that have developmental disabilities like my daughter. But, you know, I've definitely self-learned, |
| 1:55.5 | raised a lot of money and a lot of awareness for this. So I appreciate you having me on. The first |
| 2:00.8 | thing that people kind of have to realize, I always try to express this is it's, you know, no one |
| 2:10.2 | really goes into when you have a child, your plan is never, oh, I know I'm going to probably have |
| 2:18.1 | a child with some kind of special needs. That's, it's quite a shocker when you get that word, |
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