How to Help a Child with Autism + Overcoming Racial Disparities in Healthcare (with Stephanie Keeney Parks)

Dr. Caroline Leaf
2 min readSep 9, 2021

In a recent podcast (episode #315), I spoke with UCLA doctoral student Stephanie Keeney Parks about healthcare disparities in America, managing autism, changing the mental healthcare landscape, advice for parents with autistic children, and more!

Based on her own experiences as a mother to an autistic child, Stephanie decided to focus her anthropological research on autism and mental healthcare in America at UCLA, focusing on racial disparities in…

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Dr. Caroline Leaf

Mental health expert. I have spent the last 30+ years researching ways to help people manage mental health issues in school, work, and life: drleaf.com