Image of Devin Smyth from CBC The Current

December 15, 2015

While I was living in the United States for the past 6 years, I missed listening to the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, aka CBC Radio. Now that I am back in Calgary, I look forward to listening to CBC as I drive across the city to see my clients for speech-language therapy. Believe me, that's a lot of driving and therefore, a lot of CBC! Call me a nerd, (and you wouldn't be the first to do so!), but I love the interesting, original and poignant stories which CBC produces.

Take today for instance. As part of an ongoing segment on autism, they interviewed an 11-year-old boy from Alberta, Devin Smyth, about what it's like to have Asperger's Syndrome, and he read his story live on the radio. His story brought tears to my eyes, not due to his autism, but due to how he is treated because of his autism. Here is Devin's story. Please check it out and let me know what you think: "CBC The Current: "Asperger's is Not a Disability"

Thanks for reading,

Cindy McCallum, M.Sc., R.SLP, SLP(C), CCC-SLP

Registered Speech-Language Pathologist

Founder, WiseOwlSpeech