The Autism Dad

Rob Gorski

rob@theautismdad.com

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Booking Overview

The Autism Dad is a parent-focused show that pairs real lived experience with expert and family perspectives on autism, ADHD, and special-needs parenting. It’s valuable for PR because it consistently features credible, practical voices—clinicians, parent-adjacent founders, and experienced advocates—covering what helps families day to day.

Metrics

Episodes: 283

Frequency: Weekly

Rating: 4.6/5.0

Estimated listeners: 1k-10k

Gender skew: Neutral

Location: USA

YouTube: 188.0k subscribers

Instagram: 181.0k followers

Contact Information

rob@theautismdad.com

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Host

Rob Gorski - Founder of The Autism Dad, a blog and podcast supporting parents raising kids on the autism spectrum. He is a single father to three autistic children and the voice behind TheAutismDad.com (since 2...

Booking Intelligence

Booking Requirements

medium
Typical Credentials:  
Mix of (1) parent voices with lived experience, including parent-advocates and caregivers, and (2) credentialed professionals tied to the topic (e.g., family doctors) or founders building autism supports.
Required Achievements:  
Published or featured expertise/advocacy (not strictly required), Demonstrated experience in autism care/support (clinical or parenting), Development of autism-related tools/resources (e.g., parenting/IEP/visual planning apps), Advocacy for parent-centered, compassionate systems of support

Recent Guest Discussions

Mariam Shapera - Parent-centered Autism Care; Early Signs And Diagnosis; ABA And Speech Therapy Timing; Clinician-parent Trust; Regulation Before Learning; Therapist Fit

Justin Bowman - Building Supports After Diagnosis; Visual Routines/planning; IEP Transcription/social Stories/visual Schedules; Privacy Around Child Data; Dad-as-fixer Mindset

Liz Covington - Late Autism Diagnosis; What Level 1 Autism Parenting Can Look Like; Masking And Burnout; School Experiences; Invisible Challenges; Belonging And Advocacy

Recent Topics

Autism, Adhd, Neurodiversity, Parenting, Special Needs

Episodes

Here's the recent few episodes on
The Autism Dad
:

Autism in Real Life | Christine Bauereis (S9E11)

July 01, 2026

"Accommodating these children is like giving them a lifeline, and these children are worthy of it." Christine Bauereis didn't find out she was autistic and ADHD until her 30s. The clarity came the way it does for so many parents, after her own kids were diagnosed. She looked at her son's reports, then at her own childhood, and the whole picture finally made sense. Christine is a mom of three in central Massachusetts, part of a blended family. Her 14-year-old, her 10-year-old son Archer,...

Stop Comparing the Hard, Start Validating It | Heidi Price (S9E10)

June 17, 2026

"Stop comparing the hard. Start validating the hard." That one line from Heidi Price might be the whole episode. Heidi spent years in the autism community before she was a mom. She worked as a recreational therapist, and she married into a family that knows autism well, with two brothers-in-law on the spectrum and two nephews too. She thought she understood it. Then she had her own kids, and she learned how much the level one experience can humble even someone who works in the field. Heidi ...

Seen&Heard | Mariam Shapera (S9E09)

June 03, 2026

Mariam Shapera is a family doctor. In medical school, she got one lecture on autism, and it was clinical and deficit-focused. Then she became an autism mom, and everything she thought she knew got rewritten by her own son. In this Seen and Heard episode, Mariam sits down with Rob to talk about raising her nine-year-old son, who is minimally speaking and autistic, alongside his neurotypical older sister and younger brother. She and her husband, also a physician, started noticing differences b...

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