{"id":9959,"date":"2016-05-16T10:55:08","date_gmt":"2016-05-16T17:55:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/azaroff.com\/?p=9959"},"modified":"2025-08-29T08:26:59","modified_gmt":"2025-08-29T15:26:59","slug":"watch-my-talk-on-the-spectrum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/azaroff.com\/?p=9959","title":{"rendered":"Watch my talk: On the Spectrum."},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><em>Since my son and I gave our talk at the Credit Union Water Cooler Symposium last October, we&#8217;ve been asked repeatedly if a video was made of the event. Well, here it is&#8230;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Last October, I had a profound experience when I presented on the topic of raising an Autistic child at the <a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20170801153230\/http:\/\/www.cuwatercooler.com:80\/conference\/\">CU Water Cooler<\/a> in Kansas City, Missouri. I had never given a talk about my family&#8217;s experience with Autism, so I was nervous about it. But I felt compelled to speak about my son&#8217;s experiences, and how his special interest in music helped him through his challenges.<\/p>\n<p>What made the experience so meaningful for me, was that after I spoke my son played several of his songs live in front of 150 people &#8211; to a standing ovation.<\/p>\n<p>Check it out and leave a comment to tell me what you think&#8230;<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/161798076?title=0&amp;byline=0&amp;portrait=0\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/161798076\">On The Spectrum<\/a> from <a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/currencymarketing\">Tim McAlpine<\/a> on <a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\">Vimeo<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Oh yeah, two more things&#8230;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>You can listen to all of <a href=\"https:\/\/spectrasound.bandcamp.com\">Spectra&#8217;s music, here<\/a>!<\/li>\n<li>I originally <a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20170707025748\/http:\/\/www.cuwatercooler.com\/discussions\/on-the-spectrum\">blogged about the talk here<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>PS: Thanks to the great <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/currencytim\">Tim McAlpine<\/a> for posting this on Vimeo!<\/p>\n<p><em>Originally published on the <a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20170707025725\/http:\/\/www.cuwatercooler.com\/discussions\/watch-my-talk-on-the-spectrum\">CU Water Cooler<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Since my son and I gave our talk at the Credit Union Water Cooler Symposium last October, we&#8217;ve been asked repeatedly if a video was made of the event. Well, here it is&#8230; Last October, I had a profound experience when I presented on the topic of raising an Autistic child at the CU Water [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[169,170,215,241],"class_list":["post-9959","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-autism","tag-azaroff","tag-conference","tag-cuwatercooler"],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p37qUH-2AD","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/azaroff.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9959","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/azaroff.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/azaroff.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/azaroff.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/azaroff.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9959"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/azaroff.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9959\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16757,"href":"https:\/\/azaroff.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9959\/revisions\/16757"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/azaroff.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9959"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/azaroff.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9959"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/azaroff.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9959"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}