Today I’m thrilled to introduce you to a very special guest: mother, wife, whistleblower, school teacher of neurodevelopmental, severely autistic and non-verbal children, and a woman who is quite literally giving a voice to the voiceless: Casey

Casey’s story is unlike anything else you’ve heard on ‘The Imagination’ and I’m so inspired by her courage to come talk about some amazing revelations she’s discovered in her work with neurodevelopmental children. The story you are about to hear today begins a few years back when her whole life changed. A woman of faith, Casey found her passion serving God through taking care of children who considered ‘injured’ - such as severely autistic and minimally verbal and non-verbal kids and young adults who need care and support for the rest of their lives. What she discovered by a miracle from God was that these kids and young adults she has been serving actually aren’t voiceless at all despite being labeled as non-verbal. In fact  - these children that are labeled as ‘injured’ and are looked down on in society actually possess quite incredible spiritual gifts and sophisticated methods of communication that Casey discovered by accident through pursuing an unrelenting journey of caring to get to know these children she works with the same passion that she serves God with. Casey’s story gives a new meaning to the nomenclature associated with children who are commonly referred to as ‘special’ in the education systems.

Among the amazing revelations you are about to hear today about this underestimated demographic of children and young adults, Casey is also going to discuss why and how these children are being injured in the first place and things we need to consider - as a society - if we are going to be inclusive of the fact that EVERY child’s life matters. As Casey states: There are a growing number of children that are being harmed by systems of power - intentionally and brutally changing many of these children’s lives for the worse. So many families need help and there are so few people helping. There are even fewer people willing to acknowledge the spiritual side of autism. And this is why Casey is here. She isn’t speaking on behalf of herself, but on behalf of a growing number of children and young adults who are losing their physical voices in droves due to a broken system that seeks to exploit and profit off of children and parents and abandons them after they have been broken.

Casey’s story today leads us into discovering an intelligent network of communication happening right beneath our noses by children written off as ‘injured’ and ‘disabled’ and that these voices are in indeed ‘special’ and deserve our eyes, ears and heart just as much as every other abuse survivor does. And after getting to know Casey, I couldn’t think of a better person to speak on behalf of this growing group of unrepresented children who are not added into the ‘save the children’ conversation. That is, they weren’t added… until now.

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