Tsara's Column: Autism, Inclusion and More: Publications and Documents
Summary
Tsara Shelton's writings and blog posts cover a wide range of meaningful topics, including autism, mental health, parenting, and societal perceptions of disability. Her work, featured in various publications, consists of personal essays, thought-provoking reflections, and real-life stories that challenge assumptions and encourage understanding. With a warm, candid style, she explores complex issues like inclusion, aging, advocacy, and the experiences of caregivers, offering insights that resonate with individuals with disabilities, seniors, and those who support them. Her writing is both engaging and useful, sparking important conversations while offering practical wisdom drawn from lived experience.Searching the Database
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| Title and Description | Published Date Revised Date |
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| Being Brave: Choosing Growth Over Fear in Family Life A personal essay on choosing courage over fear, growing up with disabled siblings, and how small brave choices can reshape parenting and family life over time. | |
| Sensory Issues and Behaviors: Lessons From an Itchy Rash A personal look at how a temporary itchy rash reveals the link between sensory issues and behaviors, and why noticing them builds empathy for disabled people. | |
| The Power and Potential of Environment How your environment shapes mental and physical health, with a personal reflection on how surroundings, relationships, and habits support family wellbeing. | |
| When Our Murdered Uncle and His Stories Are Lost Forever A personal essay on the murder of a Native American uncle, cultural loss, fierce family advocacy, and raising neurodiverse siblings across many backgrounds. | |
| Parenting a Child With Autism: A Family Gratitude Story A mother shares how repeated exposure, gentle encouragement, and safe spaces at home helped her son with autism grow into a confident, socially connected teen. | |
| When Autism, Writing, and Parenting Intersect A writer and mother of sons with autism shares how nurturing authenticity rather than forcing conformity shapes both good parenting and honest writing. | |
| Autistic Communication: A Conversation A mother and autistic son use video analysis and captions to improve mutual understanding, revealing insights on listening beyond words for caregivers and families. | |
| Left Neglected by Lisa Genova: A Book Review on Neglect Tsara Shelton reviews Left Neglected by Lisa Genova, a novel about a busy mother who develops left neglect after a car crash, drawing on her own mother's story. | |
| Heavenly Home and the Words We Use to Describe It How Heavenly Home, the All Brains Grow course by Lynette Louise and Louloua Smadi, uses bio-play and mindful language to help families support special needs. | |
| Finding Balance in Aging Tsara Shelton provides us with her perspective of aging holistically. | |
| The Core of the Problem Tsara Shelton writes on seeking the core of the problem by finding a balance between taking care of ourselves and each other, while relaxing and not allowing the work of taking care become a problem itself. | |
| Strawman Argument: Definition, Examples and Why It Matters Learn what a strawman argument is, how it distorts an opposing view, and how to spot it in political debate, everyday talk and disability rights discussions. | |
| Gaslighting: Definition, Signs, Tactics and Disability Learn what gaslighting is, the common tactics abusers use, warning signs to watch for, why disabled people are often targeted, and practical ways to respond. | |
| A Lack of Ideas I don't have new ideas; I tend to do things how I see them done or how I've been taught to do them. Never do I think to myself this is cumbersome or imperfect; I wonder if there's a better way. | |
| Watch Where Your Words Come From Tsara Shelton writes on how the power of language is more about knowing our words are tools we use to share something grander than the words themselves. | |
| What Is and Isn't Important An article by Tsara Shelton regarding the value of importance. | |
| Book Review: My Year of Rest and Relaxation by Ottessa Moshfegh Tsara Shelton reviews the book My Year of Rest and Relaxation written by Ottessa Moshfegh. | |
| Inclusion Please, Because I'm a Little Bit Selfish The more I think about how the world could change for people I love if it was more inclusive and diverse, the more I want it for me. The more I want it for my own challenges and reactions. | |
| Supporting Moms: Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder Article by Tsara Shelton looks at Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder (FASD) and asks we offer more support to moms during September, FASD Awareness Month. | |
| Pinwheels and Prevention (Childhood Abuse Prevention Month) Article by Tsara Shelton looks at the month of April being Child Abuse Prevention, Sexual Assault Awareness and Prevention as well as Autism Acceptance Month. | |
| Everybody Eats - A Mom and Daughter Food Tale Tsara Shelton writes in regards to an invitation she and her mom received to write for Eat, Darling, Eat. | |
| Love, Lies, and Language Barriers Tsara Shelton writes on some of the barriers encountered having moved to the province of Quebec, Canada. | |
| Why We Revolt: A Patient Revolution for Careful and Kind Care Book review of Why We Revolt: A Patient Revolution for Careful and Kind Care written by Victor Montori. | |
| The Brain Broad's COVID-19 Response A few of the changes Dr. Lynette Louise, The Brain Broad, made due COVID restrictions. | |
| In Service : U.S. Memorial Day 2020 25th May 2020 is Memorial Day in America an occurrence observed annually on the last Monday of May, set aside to honor and remember those who have died while serving in the U.S. Armed Forces. | |
| The Brain Broad Talks About Lust: Helping Teenagers with Autism Through Puberty and Beyond In her latest Autism ABCs series Dr. Lynette Louise, aka The Brain Broad, presents her latest video for the letter L which, she decides, stands for Lust. | |
| Autism ABCs and Fix it in Five: Free from The Brain Broad for April and Beyond Dr. Lynette Louise releases season one (Uganda) of her international autism docu-series Fix it in Five with Lynette Louise aka The Brain Broad, free for viewing on YouTube. | |
| World Autism Awareness Day with Dr. Lynette Louise Tsara Shelton shares how her mother Dr. Lynette Louise, known as The Brain Broad, marks World Autism Awareness Day by releasing her docu-series on YouTube. | |
| The Novel Coronavirus and Your Autistic Child Dr. Lynette Louise offers tips to help relieve worry and ease health risks from COVID-19 when your child has autism. | |
| 20 New Episodes of Letters to Lynette with Dr. Lynette Louise to Air on The Autism Channel in 2018 Letters to Lynette is a 15 - 20 minute show wherein international brain change expert and autism specialist Dr. Lynette Louise answers viewer's personalized questions. | |
| Spinning in Circles and Learning From Myself by Tsara Shelton Spinning in Circles and Learning From Myself - Candid book by Tsara Shelton offers a unique and intimate narrative on parenting, autism, and growing up. |
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