Conversations with Olwen
So many people are struggling. Children and parents too, are struggling with increased Mental Health challenges. On this podcast, founder of BackChat Speech Pathology, Olwen Forker talks to a range of experts – including Mums – to discuss causal factors for this. Olwen will share her own experience raising three boys during the last two decades, through some of the biggest changes in society. This podcast will be open, vulnerable, and very real. It is going to ruffle feathers, as the experts – Mums - and Olwen, explore these societal changes and how they’ve affected our parenting and our children. Especially when parenting children with additional needs. Conversations with Olwen is here for every parent – especially our Mums – to take something away to apply, to our own parenting experience.
Episodes
Olwen starts to discuss solutions in this episode, and discusses the ‘Icelandic Solution’ implemented in the 1970’s.
Backed by the latest neuroscience, this solution is genius as it encompasses the ‘whole’ brain and the ‘whole’ child; something Olwen is passionate about.
Her clinical work is not ‘just’ about speech therapy, but about gaining better outcomes through connection, r...
Olwen delves deeper into the neuroscience behind our little one’s development and how modern society including screen time and the cost-of-living crisis, is directly affecting their brain function.
Especially for our little boys.
And how the NDIS has monetised children’s outcomes in this country, making it better ‘not’ to build function.
Olwen also reflects on day to day activities – the movies childre...
Recorded and produced at The Podcast Boss podcast studio in Brisbane
Recorded and produced at The Podcast Boss podcast studio in Brisbane
Recorded and produced at The Podcast Boss podcast studio in Brisbane
Olwen is a well-known Speech Pathologist and Mum of three boys. She has 27 years clinical experience in the paediatric field and Olwen is a huge advocate for improving outcomes for children in Australia.
This episode revisits earlier concepts introduced but also adds new information - layering new facts and research – while consolidating Series One.
And Olwen’s insights and reflections go a step deeper this time.
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In this episode, Olwen shares her TOP 8 tips for what she would do NOW here in Queensland, to address the rising levels of disadvantage, illiteracy levels and behavioural issues in schools. And her answer is not more Speech Pathologists.
“A mile wide” is a phrase Olwen hears often about the school curriculum. She takes it one step further in this BackChat Bite, to discuss how a Cost of Living crisis - with both parents now working - has impacted on our children, especially disadvantaged little ones, to such a degree that it is causing huge illiteracy and other learning delays.
Another wonderful Mum from the BackChat Village – Carly, shares her story – about her little guy and his struggles. Diagnosed initially with a Global Developmental Delay, this Mum and Teacher knew in her gut that something else was going on!
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Teachers are the backbone of our society. They care for our children daily, and the expectations placed upon them, are becoming more complex and excessive with every year. In this bite, Olwen tackles this issue head-on with a highly experienced Teacher.
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The universal healthcare system in Australia aka NDIS, has provided many families with loads of funds to access Therapy and Therapists. But a system is only as strong as the clinical experience of the people working within it.
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If there is one thing Olwen ‘gets’ it’s that some children cannot do well when they can. They need some Specialist level help, to get to the ‘when.’ In a career spanning over two decades – and as a Mum - Olwen has stayed across advances in Neuroscience, Psychology and Child Development, and now works closely with Specialists to help guide & to support families with Neurodivergent children, se...
Working Memory. It is not an area we touch on nor discuss. But we need to. Desperately. Particularly with our boys. With literacy rates dropping nationwide, a reduction in play and increase in screen time, this area is of huge concern to Olwen.
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It is one of those tricky conversations, but as a Mum of three boys, Olwen shares how boys change during these ‘testing times’ of development. A great bite for every boy Mum, or Mum who is concerned about her little one’s personality and how it may alter with age. And Testosterone.
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Social media and the news are FULL of violence against women stories. Well, let me share some stories, from a paediatric clinic of the struggles Mums experience, in getting help for their dysregulated little boys.
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The introduction of a universal health care system AKA NDIS has monetised early intervention in this country and many vulnerable families fall prey to many unscrupulous providers. But what about people who are ‘rorting’ the system? Olwen shares a few stories she’s heard in this bite.
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Another wonderful Mum from the BackChat Village – Carly, shares her story – about her little guy and his struggles. Diagnosed initially with a Global Developmental Delay, this Mum and Teacher knew in her gut that something else was going on!
Produced by The Podcast Boss
Sharing our stories to help struggling Mum with hers, is what we are all about within at The BackChat Clinic. Today Cathy – one of our AMAZING Mums – is going to share her story in the hope, that it helps someone else.
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