Friday Q&A: Laura Brown on Autism, AAC and the Power of Communication
Made by Mammas: The Podcast
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4.8 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 29 May 2026
⏱️ 35 minutes
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Summary
This week, Georgia and Zoe are joined by Laura Brown, known as Spinning World of Autism, who is autistic herself and mum to Ethan, her six-year-old autistic son.
Laura answers your questions, explains what AAC (Augmentative and Alternative Communication) is and how it allows non-speaking children to communicate and shares honest advice from someone who is living it every day.
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| 0:00.0 | Zoe and Georgia will be here in just a moment. After this episode, you should get You Don't |
| 0:06.8 | Know You're Born lined up to play next. On their recent episode, Brooke Vincent and Wingman |
| 0:12.0 | are joined by Sophie, a mum of three, including a daughter who's autistic. She opens up about |
| 0:18.0 | her family's journey, from navigating diagnosis to battling for a place at Ascend School and shares the reality of parenting children with very different needs. |
| 0:27.5 | So when this episode of Made by Mommas is done, search for you don't know you're born and get it lined up to play next. |
| 0:35.5 | Hello and welcome to Made by Mommas the podcast. |
| 0:38.6 | I'm Zoe Hardman. |
| 0:39.8 | And I'm Georgia Dayton. |
| 0:40.9 | And this is your parenting safe space where no conversation is off limits. |
| 0:45.5 | With five kids between G and I, we have seen a lot. |
| 0:48.4 | We really have. |
| 0:49.5 | Each week, we'll be joined by some famous faces and experts. |
| 0:52.6 | And we'll chat about the brands and products that have saved us along the way. In short, we're the parenting podcast for you. Before we get started, hit subscribe or follow, so you're the first to know when each episode lands. And they're on Tuesdays and Fridays. And it really helps if you leave a rating and a review. You can also find us in Instagram. We're on at Made by Mummers. |
| 1:11.4 | But for now, George, should we get into it? |
| 1:16.1 | Welcome to Friday's episode of the podcast. |
| 1:18.8 | As always, with these podcasts that we do on a Friday, |
| 1:21.7 | we really try and bring you bite-size, manageable pieces of information, |
| 1:27.4 | chunks of knowledge that we can hear from experts |
| 1:29.9 | from that Georgia and I might be able to impart on to you, although we still don't know that |
| 1:32.9 | much after sort of 12 years of parenting. Today, though, a subject that is being spoken about so |
| 1:38.0 | much across social media, across the news, autism and ADHD. And so we wanted to get |
| 1:43.9 | somebody who's a really, really big voice |
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