This week's travel news brings you exciting news about The Palm Beaches in Florida and updates on Attraction Assistant Passes from the Universal Orlando and Universal Hollywood Resort. If you are finding you need help planning and booking your next vacation head on over to my website www.lilyandmagnoliatravel.com to get started planning. Links to articles talked about in the show: The Palm Beaches becomes and Autism Certified Destination - https://autismtravel.com/2023/06/27/discover-the-palm-beaches/ How Florida can be a perfect Autism-Friendly vacation - https://www.lilyandmagnoliatravel.c ..read more

Welcome back to the Autism Travel Podcast. I'm taking a shift with things and rather than speaking about very specifically how I can help you travel I want to inspire you to travel with your autistic child by sharing all the emerging autism travel news! There is a lot! I'll try to keep the episodes under 10 mins so you get the news you need. All the articles that I reference are in the show notes if you want to read further. Of course, I will continue to talk about how I can help you travel and to inspire you to travel over on my: Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/lilyandmagnoliatravel/ I ..read more

This episode I wanted to give you some inspiration from an adult on the autism spectrum that travels the world. My guest is Shalese runs her Instagram account and details how she travels the world and pays attention to her own personal cues. What I loved the most about this interview was that Shalese is unapologetically living her life and traveling the world. She has figured out how to the travel the world and with support so can you!   Shalese Nicole Heard (Autistic Travel Goddess) holds a dual Master's degree: Public Health and Business Administration. She is a content creator, an ..read more

We've talked about how you can travel, why you can travel and where you can travel.  This week on the podcast we are talking about now that you've decided to travel, how outside of myself, that you can get some support while you are traveling.  Of course, you leave the planning of the trip and the booking of the trip up to me and we work together to make this trip happen with as little stress as possible.  But now imagine you are at your destination but we've already talked about this unique service I have partnered with.  You are finding you want a break from your caregivi ..read more

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Vacation or Epic MOVE! Should you travel with a child no matter what age with autism?  Kids with autism thrive on set schedules, and vacations in new places far from home compounded with the stress of flying, strangers, new smells, new sounds can cause discomfort and disrupt routines.  What is the point when your child is so used to their daily life?  Why bother to stress them out with the packing and social stories to set them up for the vacation?  Often it feels like a military move with they have to adjust to the new place and you run the risk of a child that is well adj ..read more

Planning vacations of any kind involve a lot of research. After all, your goal is to go on vacation your whole family will love! However, the hours upon hours of emails, phone calls, and looking up just one more thing is enough to make you want to skip the vacation planning period! ​ Of course, once you think of all the autistic meltdowns, toddler temper tantrums, juggling luggage, and maneuvering around new destinations, the appeal to take a vacation is even less.  ​ I hear you!  ​ When my oldest son was diagnosed with autism, I thought our days of travel were long gone! I didn’t kn ..read more

There is a huge focus on accessible travel in the travel industry, what has been your experience with traveling?  For Jamie Santillo my guest today on the podcast it's been very successful. She has always loved to travel. Now owning her own special needs certified travel agency, she wants to help others with disabilities realize that there is a great big beautiful world out there that is very accessible to them. She also believes it is so important, especially now with the pandemic that people utilize a travel professional, like Jamie and I, to ensure they are up to date on all the travel ..read more

Katie McIntosh is a travel blogger who creates practical travel guides to help other people with chronic illnesses gain the confidence to travel the world. In this episode, we talk about how you can use different strategies to help you travel with success with Endo!  LINKS: Website: https://thekatieshowblog.com Book: https://amzn.to/32suiCq Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/katieshowblog/ See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information ..read more

Jenn Llyod of Sick Girl Travels on my podcast today.  I personally don’t have any experience with traveling with a chronic illness and I have been wanting to learn more about this topic.  Especially because I might encounter a client that has a chronic illness I may need to consider just like I have to consider my own diet when traveling with Pre-diabetes or the heat at certain destinations when I work with a client with Type 1 Diabetes.  Jenn is full of so much information and I’m honored and humbled that she took the time to be a guest speaker on this episode. www.sickgirltrav ..read more