Episode 4- Sinead Keane- Living with Aspergers  This week we are joined by Sinead Keane who has Aspergers and we discuss the impact this has on her life and learn about her coping mechanisms and hear her brilliant advice on how best to help understand someone with this condition People with Asperger syndrome see, hear and feel the world differently to other people. If you have Asperger syndrome, you have it for life – it is not an illness or disease and cannot be ‘cured’. Often people feel that Asperger syndrome is a fundamental aspect of their identity. Autism is a spectrum condition. All autistic people share certain difficulties, but being autistic will affect them in different ways. Some people with Asperger syndrome also have mental health issues or other conditions, meaning people need different levels and types of support. People with Asperger syndrome are of average or above average intelligence. They don't have the learning disabilities that many autistic people have, but they may have specific learning difficulties. They have fewer problems with speech but may still have difficulties with understanding and processing language.  Contact Sinead on Twitter : @ainesinead  Listen to our podcast on spotify, google podcasts or via the Anchor app by searching Disability Ireland: https://open.spotify.com/show/4BHHqIi9Zzcqoz26DICCYr  Website: disabilityireland.com  Twitter: @disabilityeire  Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/disabilityeire/

Sinead Keane-LIving with Aspergers Trailer Listen to the full episode here : https://anchor.fm/disabilityireland/episodes/Episode-4--Sinead-Keane--Living-with-Aspergers-e8ou3r Episode 4- Sinead Keane- Living with Aspergers  This week we are joined by Sinead Keane who has Aspergers and we discuss the impact this has on her life and learn about her coping mechanisms and hear her brilliant advice on how best to help understand someone with this condition People with Asperger syndrome see, hear and feel the world differently to other people. If you have Asperger syndrome, you have it for life – it is not an illness or disease and cannot be ‘cured’. Often people feel that Asperger syndrome is a fundamental aspect of their identity. Autism is a spectrum condition. All autistic people share certain difficulties, but being autistic will affect them in different ways. Some people with Asperger syndrome also have mental health issues or other conditions, meaning people need different levels and types of support. People with Asperger syndrome are of average or above average intelligence. They don't have the learning disabilities that many autistic people have, but they may have specific learning difficulties. They have fewer problems with speech but may still have difficulties with understanding and processing language.  Contact Sinead on Twitter : @ainesinead  Listen to our podcast on spotify, google podcasts or via the Anchor app by searching Disability Ireland: https://open.spotify.com/show/4BHHqIi9Zzcqoz26DICCYr  Website: disabilityireland.com  Twitter: @disabilityeire  Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/disabilityeire/

Episode 3- Brain cooling with Carmel Finnegan and Laura Collins Following on from the massive listener reaction from our first episode with campaigner Carmel Finnegan we thought we'd do a follow up episode from a different perspective. Joining us is Laura Collins who's newborn was in need of HIE/brain cooling and she describes the emotional consequences of her child having the treatment and immediately taken to Cork whilst she had to remain i hospital and follow her newborn down the following day. Carmel's Facebook link https://www.facebook.com/birthinjuries  Twitter: @birthcarmel  Listen to our podcast on spotify, google podcasts or via the Anchor app by searching Disability Ireland: https://open.spotify.com/show/4BHHqIi9Zzcqoz26DICCYr  Website: disabilityireland.com  Twitter: @disabilityeire  Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/disabilityeire/  #TherapeuticHypothermia #braincooling #disabilityirelandpodcast #disabilityireland #hseireland

We are joined this week by @ThereseCahill1 who is a stand up performer from Bray, Co Wicklow. We delve deep  into what it is like living and learning to cope with a disability experienced later in life as well as how she copes with living with chronic pain and being morphine dependent as well as the mental health issues she has encountered and her coping mechanisms We will also discuss her comedy and performance work and her upcoming video collebration with Don Rorke from Salty Peppers productions on the misuse of disability parking spaces and the challenges this entails. We hope you enjoy:) @ThereseCahill1  https://www.facebook.com/therese.cahill.18 youtube.com/channel/UCAaAh4dydoVr0qXnpYW0eJQ @rorkedon Follow us on Spotify - Search Disability Ireland https://open.spotify.com/show/4BHHqIi9Zzcqoz26DICCYr Twitter: @disabilityeire Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/disabilityeire Have a great week

Joining us to be our first ever guest to the show is Carmel Finnegan from West Limerick who is campaigning to roll out the life-saving treatment of 'Therapeutic Hypothermia' or 'Brain Cooling' for newborns, into every maternity hospital in Ireland. We discuss  1. What is therapeutic Hypothermia? 2. What hospitals is it currently available in? 3. What are the long term implications for a baby who has suffered this type of brain damage at birth and needs this treatment? 4. Why she have a particular interest in this area? 5.What would she like to see the HSE doing? 6. Who has she lobbied about this to date and what has been the response? Carmel's Facebook link https://www.facebook.com/birthinjuries Twitter: @birthcarmel Listen to our podcast on spotify, google podcasts or via the Anchor app by searching Disability Ireland: https://open.spotify.com/show/4BHHqIi9Zzcqoz26DICCYr Website: disabilityireland.com Twitter: @disabilityeire Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/disabilityeire/ #TherapeuticHypothermia #braincooling #disabilityirelandpodcast #disabilityireland #hseireland

This I guess is a pre podcast broadcast to promote the upcoming  Disability Ireland podcasts Coming up in future podcasts you will be hearing from a local woman campaigning for safer maternity care for women in childbirth across Ireland and the need for better nationwide support for children with birth injuries in order to enable them to reach their full potential Also coming up is a lady who for the past 8 years has lived with huntingtons disease so we’ll be finding out more about the disease and the impact this has had on her daily life as well as discussing what daily living aids HINTS AND tips she finds helpful to leading an independent and happy life. Folks this podcast is really all about you- Whether you are a disability campaigner or someone with a disability or life limiting condition? I invite you to get in touch to come on and spread news of your cause and offer educational and personal insights to known and relatively unknown conditions (Hidden or otherwise) and discuss the impact this has had but most importantly spread insights into how best you've been able to lead your best independent life So there we have it guys PLEASE Get in touch if you want to discuss coming on the podcast we look forward to releasing our new episodes soon