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Listen, Learn & Love Hosted by Richard Ostler

Episode 855: Stephanie Roach, Parenting Special Needs Children

Listen, Learn & Love Hosted by Richard Ostler

Richard Ostler

Religion & Spirituality

4.7 • 855 Ratings

🗓️ 4 January 2026

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

My friend Stephanie Roach—who is married mother of two special needs children age 24 (daughter) and age 22 (son)—joins us to share how we can better support friends and family members with specific needs. In the episode, Stephanie talks about the following: 1. Historical treatment of individuals with special needs 2. Geraldo Rivera’s documentary 3. Improved laws and understanding—often led by special needs folks 4. Utah Parent Center—great resource 5. Insights and examples on how we can do better 6. Suggestions from her daughter I learned so much from Stephanie about how to better support the special needs people in my life—I wish I had listened to this episode decades ago. Stephanie is also the person who suggested the name of our podcast “Listen, Learn and Love” about 8 years ago. I will be forever grateful to Stephanie for her help. Thank you, Stephanie, for coming on the podcast. Your family is awesome. I encourage everyone to listen and share this episode. Links: Utah Parent Center: https://utahparentcenter.org/

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0:00.0

Hello, welcome listeners to another episode of Listen, Learn, and Love hosted by Richard Osler.

0:10.0

My guest on today's podcast, joining me from Salt Lake County, her home via Zoom, is my friend

0:15.8

Stephanie Roach. Welcome to the podcast, Stephanie.

0:19.5

Hi, thank you. I'm glad to be here.

0:22.4

Stephanie is somebody that's had a huge impact for good in my life, really one of the heroes

0:26.8

in my life, because I was in a Facebook group, you know, 10 years ago when I was starting the

0:33.1

podcast, brainstorming with that Facebook group had a name our podcast that's now, as you know,

0:39.4

listen, learn, and love.

0:41.4

And Stephanie is the person, drumroll that suggested, listen, learn, and love.

0:49.3

And that has been 10 years ago.

0:52.3

That's the, you know, the title of the podcast, as you know, the title of the three books that I've co-authored, Listen, Learn, and Love, Embracing LGBTQ, Latter-day Saints, Listen, Learn, and Love, Improving Latter-day Saint Culture, and listen, learn, and love, building the good ship Zion. Now, I teach Stephanie before we started recording that if this had been a for-profit

1:12.7

venture, I would be, and somehow had made bank on this name, I would be a remiss if I didn't

1:19.3

send her some money. But I've never sent Stephanie any money because we've never generated

1:25.5

a dollar of income because this is just a labor of love.

1:28.9

But I really want to thank Stephanie for her creative insights and just nailing this name

1:34.7

that stuck with us for so long.

1:36.5

And do you have any backstory, Stephanie, on why you came up with that suggestion?

1:40.8

Do you remember anything about her just kind of come naturally to you?

1:44.9

There were some words being tossed around in the group and I just thought about your mission

1:50.2

and what was important to you and what you wanted to share in this and just listen, learn,

1:55.6

and love just came to my heart, I guess. And I felt like it was a very important message

2:00.0

to share in many different circumstances. And I guess it's I felt like it was a very important message to share in many

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