40 Best Special Needs Parenting Podcasts

1. Parenting Impossible The Special Needs Survival Podcast

Parenting Impossible The Special Needs Survival Podcast is a podcast dedicated to giving compassionate advice for all stages of life. Our conversations revolve around the entire special needs community including those with autism, intellectual disabilities, physical disabilities, mental health issues and more
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Play⋅ 9⋅ 197 ⋅1 episode / week ⋅ Avg Length 48 min ⋅ Dec 2019 Get Email Contact

2. Special About Special

A podcast created to bring together parents in the special needs community and give them a safe space to chat and find new resources in a judgement free zone. We are parents of 2 children with special needs/disabilities and have immersed ourselves in this world in order to educate ourselves and our children.
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3. The Special Fathers Network Dad to Dad Podcast

Barrington, Illinois, US
Fathers mentoring fathers of kids with special needs - presented by the Special Father Network. Host David Hirsch interviews some amazing fathers of kids with special needs.
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Play⋅ 942⋅ 127 ⋅3 episodes / month ⋅ Avg Length 45 min ⋅ Aug 2017 Get Email Contact

4. Having a Moment with Moni

Special needs parenting is both challenging and rewarding, but how do you handle all of those challenges as a single parent? Join me as I take you on this journey into what daily life is like for me as a single mother of a special needs son with Cerebral Palsy and as a caregiver to my adult brother with Autism. You'll laugh, you'll cry, you'll be challenged and most importantly, you'll be inspired. Come...have a MOment with Moni.
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Play⋅ 144⋅ 204 ⋅1 episode / month ⋅ Avg Length 50 min ⋅ Mar 2019 Get Email Contact

5. Overcome the Overwhelm

Welcome to Overcome the Overwhelm, a podcast for special needs moms. If you've been looking for a resource on how to reduce your stress, overwhelm, anxiety, and all the other problems that come with parenting a child with disabilities, you've found the right place. Each week, this podcast will bring you the tools you need to meet the challenges that come with being a busy special needs mom. This podcast will teach you how to find new ways of thinking, help you find more energy and time, and create more joy in your life.
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Play 1 episode / week ⋅ Avg Length 22 min Get Email Contact

6. Changing The Chances

Follow our hosts Alisha and Jesse Chance talk about their story growing and learning to be special needs parents. New episodes every Monday unless something explodes.
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Play 1 episode / week ⋅ Avg Length 34 min Get Email Contact

7. The Special Needs Parent Podcast

Our efforts for our children can be overwhelming (decimating and fulfilling, heart-warming and heart-breaking, thrilling and scary). We may have little inclination or energy left to think of our priorities or work toward creating more fulfilling lives. Join Dr. Marcia for stories, tools, and guidance to help special needs parents build systems using logic and intuition, enhance connection and ease, and open up more of life's joyful prospects one thought or action at a time.
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Play⋅ 808 ⋅4 episodes / month ⋅ Avg Length 33 min Get Email Contact

8. Special Needs Parenting SOS

Help, hope and encouragement for parents with special needs kids who are feeling stressed, overwhelmed, exhausted, sleep deprived and alone.
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Play 1 episode / week ⋅ Avg Length 19 min Get Email Contact

9. The Naked Parent podcast

Santa Barbara, California, US
Parents with special needs children are overwhelmed, The Naked Parent Podcast assists parents while they build the life and family of their dreams. Every day, you can join Chad Ratliffe, father of 7 and 2 with special needs as he interviews parents and professionals to deliver what it's like to raise special needs children. Nothing is off-limits.
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Play 4 episodes / month ⋅ Avg Length 36 min Get Email Contact

10. Fight Like a Mother

Parenting children with mental health challenges can be isolating and lonely. On this podcast we will be meeting with therapists and other experts to provide resources and help with parenting kids with special needs. We will discuss subjects such as ADHD, Tourette syndrome, anxiety, depression, suicide prevention, IEP's, 504 plans.
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Play 6 episodes / quarter ⋅ Avg Length 41 min Get Email Contact

11. Pieces For My Puzzle

Pieces For My Puzzle Podcast was created by Nikki Shipp, mother to an autistic son. Tune in as she shares her life with a son on the spectrum and how her journey has led her to help parents and loved ones with special needs kids. This podcast is for anyone looking for quick tips and perspective, but most of all - for hope and inspiration.
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Play 1 episode / week ⋅ Avg Length 16 min Get Email Contact

12. Mama Marias, a Special Needs Podcast

Mama Marias is a podcast for parents and caregivers of children with special needs of any kind. It is called Mama Marias because the two hosts are both named Maria and each has a teenage daughter with special needs. They hope to share their experiences and knowledge, which they have gained through both tough and good times over the years. They want parents to know they are not alone in the way they are feeling, in the things they are experiencing, and in the things they are dreaming about.
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Play 1 episode / week ⋅ Avg Length 36 min Get Email Contact

13. Just Needs: parenting children with disabilities

Boston, Massachusetts, US
Some people think of disabilities as 'special needs.' But as parents of children with disabilities, we know our kids just have needs like everyone else. Settle in with our podcast for real talk about advocacy, friendships, developmental delays, evaluations, IEPs, sensory meltdowns, autism, and all the ups and downs that come with this gig. We don't have all the answers, but we promise to try to figure it out with you.
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Play⋅ 5.1K ⋅1 episode / week ⋅ Avg Length 9 min Get Email Contact

14. Take Heart

Jefferson City, Missouri, US
Take Heart is a podcast for special needs moms by special needs moms. It is a place for special needs moms to find authentic connection, fervent hope and inspiring stories.
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Play⋅ 444 ⋅1 episode / week ⋅ Avg Length 20 min Get Email Contact

15. Wisdom Shared with Carole Blueweiss

Meet the experts on the frontlines: the parents of children with special or unique needs. What do they wish they knew then that they know now? These parents share their insights and experiences with traditional and non-traditional professionals, their advice, and their wisdom. The lessons learned are valuable for all parents, health care workers, and educators.
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Play⋅ 229 ⋅2 episodes / quarter ⋅ Avg Length 49 min Get Email Contact

16. Parenting Special Needs Podcast

Vero Beach, Florida, US
Parenting Special Needs' Podcast provides practical tips, shares life's lessons, tackles the challenges and celebrates the joys of one of life's greatest gift. Get empowered, educated and inspired with host and Parenting Special Needs Magazine Publisher/Creator, Chantai Snellgrove as she keeps us informed on the latest trends in the special needs community. She will discuss books, ideas, and news you want to hear, as well as interview special guests like parents, authors, industry experts, doctors, trendsetters, and all-around successful people.
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Play⋅ 220.8K⋅ 1.1K ⋅1 episode / week ⋅ Jul 2018 Get Email Contact

17. Inspirations News Podcast

Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Tune in regularly to hear uplifting success stories and gain timely advice in the area of special needs, featuring experts in various fields.
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Play⋅ 1.9K⋅ 1K ⋅9 episodes / year ⋅ Avg Length 19 min Get Email Contact

18. Parents Have Special Needs Too

'Where is MY therapist?!' If you are the parent of children with special needs, like myself, then you'll understand what I mean. After feeling massive overwhelm, inadequacy, helplessness, and run ragged I finally broke down into tears like a baby and blubbered, 'I need help too!' And when I say help I mean not just someone to sympathize with me. I wanted solutions that would help me get a handle on the continual roller coaster of emotions I was going through. I'm not sure what will work for you but here I share what I have experienced and learned in hopes that it may help one of you.
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Play 2 episodes / week ⋅ Avg Length 15 min Get Email Contact

19. The Rare Life

Utah, US
Curated by a fellow special needs mom in the trenches, The Rare Life features Madeline's own experiences and takeaways as she parents her son Kimball who was born with several major birth defects due to his extremely rare genetic disorder, as well as conversations with other parents who share their own advice and stories of loving a child with medical complexities.
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Play⋅ 1.1K ⋅1 episode / day ⋅ Avg Length 55 min Get Email Contact

20. The Special Needs Mom Podcast

Think of this podcast as your very own support group except it's actually helpful and fun! You will leave with the hope that you can have a super happy life even when your life circumstances are super hard. You are a mom to a child with extraordinary needs. This podcast will be your lifeline, you'll be inspired and encouraged as we connect to other moms' journeys. We'll get practical and look at what it takes to stop being a victim of your own life.
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Play⋅ 167 ⋅1 episode / week ⋅ Avg Length 35 min Get Email Contact

21. Moments of Joy - For the Special Needs Parent

Houston, Texas, US
This podcast is dedicated to the parent raising a child with special needs, the parent caregiver, and the strongest group of parents in the world! This community welcomes you!
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Play⋅ 2.3K⋅ 401 ⋅1 episode / week ⋅ Avg Length 29 min Get Email Contact

22. Mama Bear Podcast

The Mama Bear Podcast is a place for women raising children with special needs to get together and chat about life. Mary Susan McConnell and her guests discuss the beautiful highs and the extreme lows that can come with parenting on such unique journeys.
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Play⋅ 4.7K ⋅1 episode / quarter ⋅ Avg Length 29 min ⋅ May 2018 Get Email Contact

23. LOMAH Special Needs Podcast

The LOMAH Special Needs Podcast is an in-depth look at topics relevant to raising our special needs children. The show runs topical series deep-diving into an issue for 10-12 episodes. Series include education, safety, advocacy, inclusion, technology, housing, health, and more. Your host, Kim, is the mother of a teenage daughter with type 3 autism, epilepsy, hypotonia, and intellectual disability.
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Play⋅ 1.3K⋅ 595 ⋅12 episodes / year ⋅ Avg Length 49 min ⋅ May 2017 Get Email Contact

24. Unexceptional Moms: Hope and Encouragement for Special Needs Parents

Welcome to the Unexceptional Moms Podcast, where we offer hope and encouragement for special needs parents. Join us in this journey as we navigate the joys and challenges of raising children with disabilities. We want you to know you're not alone.
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Play⋅ 17.1K⋅ 2.8K ⋅ Sep 2019 Get Email Contact

25. Disorderly Blondes Autism Podcast

Florida, US
South Florida moms, Brenda and Kristi, candidly discuss MOTHERHOOD and AUTISM while balancing heels, cocktails, and meltdowns. They share the challenges and triumphs that define the parenting journey of their own special needs sons. Together, they provide community support and a lifeline to parents of newly diagnosed children, teens, and adults.
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Play⋅ 669⋅ 170 ⋅4 episodes / year ⋅ Avg Length 53 min Get Email Contact

26. Thriving in the Midst of Chaos: Parenting With Special Needs Kids

Welcome to Thriving in the Midst of Chaos! This show is about surviving parenthood while having a child with special needs while attempting to keep your self and your sanity intact. We share our experiences and discuss how we survived, what worked for us, and what didn't work for us. This is a nonjudgmental space, to realize that we all actually will live through this and to make thriving in parenthood an actual possibility. We will also be sharing fails, nails, and comical tales, as well as one self-care strategy each week that helped keep us sane.
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Play 11 episodes / year ⋅ Avg Length 41 min Get Email Contact

27. Accepting The Unacceptable

El Dorado Hills, California, US
This show is for anyone who is raising a child with neurological differences. Raising a child with autism and epilepsy like my daughter Remy, I have learned quite a few lessons about the special needs world and the evolution of growth as a mom. In this show, we discuss all of it. Parenting, marriage, the autism world, epilepsy world and everything in between.
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Play⋅ 928⋅ 11⋅ 10.8K ⋅ Jan 2019 Get Email Contact

28. A Tour of Holland

This podcast serves as a platform for parents of children with special needs in order to gain insight, educate, and build community.
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Play 7 episodes / year ⋅ Avg Length 46 min Get Email Contact

29. Parent 2 Parent: Connecting Special Needs Parents

This podcast is a place where parents of children with special needs can connect and be a support system for one another.
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Play⋅ 13⋅ 1 ⋅8 episodes / year ⋅ Avg Length 15 min Get Email Contact

30. Safe Harbor: A Podcast for Parents of Children with Special Needs

The Safe Harbor Podcast is for parents of children with special needs. This show enables parents to come together as a community to share, learn and support each other on this complex path. Your host, Theresa Bartolotta, is a mom to a young adult with Rett syndrome and has worked with hundreds of families as a pediatric speech pathologist.
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Play 3 episodes / month ⋅ Avg Length 35 min Get Email Contact

31. The Parenting Cipher

Are you an innovative parent of color with a special needs child, or raising a child of color, and find yourself having more questions than answers? The Parenting Cipher Podcast gives a voice to black families' fears and impressions when they are navigating their childs disabilities while providing you with shortcuts to successfully navigate the education system.
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Play⋅ 49 ⋅11 episodes / year ⋅ Avg Length 35 min ⋅ Jul 2020 Get Email Contact

32. Markeisha Hall's Podcast

Markeisha Hall empowers special needs parents by eliminating the barriers and overwhelm of raising a child with special needs by partnering with you to gain the tools needed to lead your child's educational journey, master the IEP process, and experience inclusive recreational activities. So that you can enjoy more time with their child, not go down the internet rabbit hole, and be the expert they already are
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Play⋅ 708 ⋅1 episode / year ⋅ Avg Length 26 min Get Email Contact

33. Parenting Made Special

Parenting Made Special podcast is brought to you by Hita & Ayu who are parents gifted with a special needs child. This podcast is a space for parents and other listeners to hear real stories and learn tips and tricks from experts on how to handle children with special needs.
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Play 5 episodes / year ⋅ Avg Length 44 min Get Email Contact

34. 2 Pancakes of Wisdom

San Francisco, California, US
Welcome to the wild, ridiculous, and completely out-of-control adventure that is called special needs parenting. The kind of 'all your child will eat is frozen pancakes from Trader Joe's, and they are out, so you are crying to the friendly crew member in the Hawaiian shirt and he gives you free flowers on your way out the door because he feels so sorry for you' kind of adventures.
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Play⋅ 283 Get Email Contact

35. Changing Your Dreams: Parenting a Child with Special Needs

This podcast is about the unique grief we carry, changing our dreams, and how to care for ourselves when parenting a child with special needs.
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Play⋅ 214 ⋅9 episodes / year ⋅ Avg Length 43 min ⋅ Nov 2020 Get Email Contact

36. Meltdowns and Moscato

Jaci and Joey delve into their lives as Special Needs Parents. They provide an insight into raising children with autism by sharing relatable stories. They share tips and tricks that they used and things they wish they would have known years earlier.
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Play 2 episodes / year ⋅ Avg Length 31 min Get Email Contact

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