Welcome to another episode of Listen, Learn, and Love, hosted by Richard Osler.

My guest on today's podcast is my friend Pam Lyman.

Welcome to the podcast, Pam.

Thank you, Richard.

Really glad to have Pam here in my home.

I'll give a little bit of background on Pam. Pam is a married

mother of four boys, and she lives in Portland, Oregon, an area called Hillsboro, which I'm

familiar with, a beautiful area of Portland. She is here in Utah visiting family.

But Pam is married.

Her husband Matt serves as a bishop in the Portland in that Hillsboro area.

It's been serving for about four years, and they have four sons, ages 20, 18, and twins at 16.

But we're going to talk about her son, Conrad, who has what's called, tell us what he has. It's called Angelman Syndrome? Angelman Syndrome. And I have not heard of that

when Pam and I first connected, so we'll learn more about that. But this is a podcast. I'm really talking about

raising children that have what Pam calls instead of a disability, different abilities.

And some of the questions we're going to go through, what's it like having a child

with different abilities? And when and how was Conrad diagnosed and what do you want others

to know about raising a child and and what are Conrad's gifts and abilities and also what do you

wish you knew then that you know now so those of you that are raising a child with different abilities, whether that's

medical or emotional, those of you that have children with different abilities in your congregations,

and your families and your circles, I have a hunch that Pam will have insights that will help you know better how to meet the needs of families.

And if you're a parent and maybe in particular a mom who's sort of whole world changed when she got this diagnosis,

I think Pam, since she's been on this road for 16 years, we'll have insights that will help you.

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