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started. Welcome Keisha Pruden back to the Autism-AdHD podcast and Autism-AdHD-TV.

Hi. Thank you for having me.

I am excited that you're here.

We talked just last week about how to best advocate for your child.

And today, which is equally or more important, of course,

actually more important, is teaching children to advocate for themselves. Before I do that,

I'm going to do an introduction. I know most of our watchers and listeners already know you,

but everybody, Kisha Pruden is a self-proclaimed country girl

who lives in North Carolina with her husband Paul and their two sons, Aaron and Bryant.

Keisha is a licensed psychotherapist, autism advocate, public speaker, blogger, published author,

and a zillion other things as well. Her passion lies

in helping families create awesome villages for their autistic family members, providing academic

support to autistic children, their families, school staff, and other mental health professionals

through advocacy, professional development, and psychoeducation.

So also, before we start, those watching on autism, ADHD TV, you're going to notice that

maybe I have some facial differences today. As a lot of you know, I do take oral daily chemotherapy. One of my medications I take for

severe Crohn's disease. And unfortunately, one of the side effects to this medication is

skin cancer. So I often have to go in and get biopsy. So that's why I'm looking a little bit

different today. But let's get started.

That being said, we are talking again about teaching self-advocacy. And Keisha, you and I are

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