Listen up! Disability podcasts on our playlists
From personal stories to insightful discussions, practical tips, and expert advice, these podcasts offer a mix of perspectives on caring for children with disability. To listen, simply search for the titles on your chosen podcast platform.
ListenABLE
Challenge what you think it’s like to live with disability. Hosts Dylan Alcott and Angus O’Loughlin speak to people living with disabilities about their lives and ask them the questions you thought were off-limits. You’ll laugh. You’ll cry. You’ll learn something. This is a podcast for everyone – disabled or abled, which hopes to break down stigmas, change perceptions, and to challenge what you think it’s like to live with disability. Keep your eyes (and ears, obviously!) open for the odd ListenABLE Kids episode too. More of these please, Dylan, if you’re reading!
Two Peas in a Podcast
You’ll relate to so much in these episodes… Listen to mums Mandy Hose and Kate Mulholland laugh (a lot) and cry as they chat to each other and friends about parenting multiples with disabilities and additional needs.
Boldly Me
In this series Chloé Hayden chats to people that, just like her, are living life boldly and are unapologetically themselves. Chloe is joined by people known for living their lives authentically, and with confidence. From life lessons to advice for overcoming challenges, to learning to embrace your *sparkle*. Boldly Me will show you that the best way to live life is by fully embracing yourself.
Parental As Anything
OK, this one isn’t disability focused but there’s so much good and thought-provoking advice contained in these episodes, we had to put them on our list.
Maggie Dent, one of Australia’s favourite parenting authors and educators gives you practical tips and answers to your real- world parenting dilemmas. Maggie talks to parenting experts from around the world to find practical solutions to the challenges every parent is facing today.
Accessed That with Karni Liddell and Oliver Hunter
Ever wondered what it’s like to experience one of the oldest rainforests as a blind person? Or how it feels to get around one of the seven wonders of the world with mobility issues? This is Accessed That, a podcast that explores what it’s really like to travel as a person with a disability. Each episode, Oliver and Karni talk to travel lovers about their experience navigating the world – hearing the highs, the lows, and the low down from the people who have been there, accessed that.
The Rare Life
This is the real, raw, and all the feels of loving a child with disabilities. Episodes feature parent-guests, professionals, and solo episodes with host Madeline Cheney.
Tubie Talks
A brand new podcast from Melanie Dimmitt, this series celebrates the lives of people and families who tube-feed. Listen in as author, journalist and tube-feeding mum, Mel, chats with a vibrant mix of guests about how they go about this little-known, but no less worthy way of eating.
F**cking Normal
Join two London mums, Lauren Fenton and Rina Teslica, both mothers to daughters with a disability as they and their guests share unique parenting stories and chat about the things they’ve learnt and are still learning. Prepare to sometimes laugh, sometimes cry, but hopefully leave with a shot of optimism in your arm!
