CAPABLE
Welcome to CAPABLE Podcast with Haley Buck, where we give you real insight into some of our greatest heroes, women and men with disabilities. Each episode will bring you joy paired with a good laugh, as well as a greater appreciation for the community of disabilities. Hopefully, we'll provide a glimpse of those who make the impossible.... possible for themselves and others around them. Thanks for listening and enjoy the podcast!
Episodes
36 episodes
Episode 35
Today’s guest is Mercedes. She is a mother of two daughters and a husband who have Autism and a sister with a disability. She continues to keep learning in the area of Special Education in helping provide services to our population with the ...
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36:12
Episode 34
Today’s guest is Taylor. She is a mother of three beautiful children who continues to keep advocating for her son who has severe Autism and nonverbal. She has a great supportive network through family, friends, and other resources provided b...
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35:56
Episode 33
Today’s guest is Chanette. She is a third year Resource/Special Education Teacher that services students with an IEP in South Central LA, who started her journey long ago growing up with her sister who has Cerebral Palsy (CP). She has three ...
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27:40
Episode 32
Today’s guest is Lynn. She has had a variety of experience working with the disability community in the school setting. Her three different stories of working with children with disabilities are all unique in their own way. Her love for help...
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20:18
Episode 31
Today’s guest is Lisa Matto. She is a mother of an inspiring woman with Down Syndrome who lives life to the fullest! She believes whole heartily that individuals with disabilities should be included in everything and not told they can’t beca...
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36:11
Episode 30
Today’s guest is Olivia (Livvy) Tune. Olivia is a mother of a son who is autistic and non-verbal. She tells us her journey of her son’s diagnosis, and an amazing story she has had over the years. She is always striving to help her son succee...
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18:06
Episode 29
Today’s guest is Katie Garrison. Katie is a mother of a beautiful daughter with many unique abilities. Her daughter was diagnosed at 22 months with many diagnosis’s: Soto’s Syndrome, Cerebral Palsy, Epilepsy, Juvenile Rheumatoid Arthritis, K...
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19:44
Episode 28
Today’s guest is Jamie. She runs the local chapter for Penguin Project. Penguin Project was established in 2004 it has evolved into a National program, with chapter sites throughout the United States. The program provides ...
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26:52
Episode 27
Today’s guest is Christina. She is a mother of three children, a sister, and a wife all with disabilities. Christina is a high functioning Autistic individual thriving each day to advocate for her children. She grew up in the area of the dis...
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18:34
Episode 26
Today’s guest is Melanie. She taught for many years in general education and special education all in a middle school setting. She is amazing for taking on middle schoolers! She is working on getting her PhD in special education research, fo...
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8:07
Episode 25
Today’s guest is Eva. Her intentions were never to work with individuals with disabilities until she was asked to sub in a classroom with students with disabilities. From there on she has been working in a variety of different settings and a...
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16:46
Episode 24
Today’s guest is Adele. Adele has lots of experiences working and living with individuals with disabilities. She has helped provide support in a variety of different settings and her sister who has Rett Syndrome: a rare neurological and deve...
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12:03
Episode 23
I am super excited to bring on another guest, Brandi. She had worked in a variety of different schools and alternative settings with the disability community, leading her to build her own school for students with disabilities. She now runs h...
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13:37
Episode 21
Guest today is Jennifer. She is in her 10th year of teaching and teaches in a self contained classroom. Her first year of teaching was high school level at a Board of Developmental Disabilities. Since then she has been teaching combinations ...
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22:10
Episode 22
Guest today is Melinda. She has been volunteering with the disability community since she was 13 years old, and teaching for 8 years in a variety of different settings. Her story about inclusion is very powerful, and still a debate whether i...
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10:07
Episode 20
Guest today, Julie. I got the pleasure of working with. We were a great team who got things done while also having fun. She has worked as a Paraprofessional (Teacher Assistant) for 18 years in a variety of different settings and students ove...
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7:58
Episode 19
Guest today, Jennifer. She has worked as a Special Education Teacher for 15 years and is still going. 13 of those 15 years she worked in a self contained classroom with students with Autism. Listen to her mini stories of working with one of ...
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4:07
Episode 18
A guest for you today, Sharon. She grew up around the disability community, worked for 13 years as a paraprofessional aka teacher assistant, and got her degree in elementary and special education last year. Currently, she is in her first yea...
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6:39
Episode 17
Another guest for you, Whitney! She is the founder of LEAD Behavior Support in Virginia. Not only that, but she is a Chief Operations Officer for Community Direct Services, a mother of two children, and has a fiancee who strives to help one ...
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14:16
Episode 16
I have another guest, Jo, who is from the United Kingdom! She has worked with children with Autism and related learning difficulties for over 13 years in the school and home setting. She has done many years working 1:1 (one-to-one) with chil...
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23:21
Episode 15
I have another guest, Amanda! She is going on her 8th year in teaching special education. Amanda tells me her reasons for why she teaches special education and an amazing story to listen to! Communication is always a barrier in our society, ...
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9:32
Episode 14
I have another guest, Madeline. She has been teaching, but mostly administration for 11 years. Currently, she works for Twinkl…. (www.twinkl.com). Check it out for more information! A great resource to help e...
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19:18
Episode 13
t’s back to the good ole days when I was a paraprofessional in a life skills classroom. The ranges of disabilities in that classroom varied from, Down Syndrome, Intellectually disabled, severe behaviors, and more. It was a learning year for ...
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3:28