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Maintaining your resilience and wellbeing as a tired parent. is no easy task. According to Kathrine Peereboom, one of the biggest challenges for parents in this volatile world of COVID, the flu, and now interest rate rises and inflation, is maintaining your sanity and energy levels. “Parents these days are finding life tough.  Not only are […]

Our guest today is with us to share her story of raising three severely disabled autistic boys, how she’s managed to protect her relationship with her husband during all the challenges they’ve faced and what her greatest fear is for her boys. While Mel has been thinking more about her own biggest fear – aging

Kathrine Peereboom is a world-leading disability and vulnerable persons advocate and founder of Spectrum Support. Spectrum Support provides education and training to law enforcement and first responders across the country. Her work has attracted global awards for her extraordinary achievements. “Juggling motherhood with three special needs children and being a busy entrepreneur is certainly challenging

“Nothing in life can prepare you for the joy of becoming a parent. My husband and I have three boys aged eight, seven and six. Our boys are profoundly autistic, non-verbal and have additional health issues. The challenges we have as a family have my husband and I feeling like we operate at 65 percent most

Speak to any parent who has applied, let alone repeatedly reapplied for NDIS funding for their child – and their hearts will start pounding just as the mere thought of the unbearably epic process. Kathrine Peereboom, knows this dreaded procedure more than most with three severely autistic non-verbal boys – Oliver, 8, Joshua, 7, and Tyler is

Meet Kathrine Peereboom, Australia’s first Autism and Law Enforcement trainer. Having founded Spectrum Support in 2017, Kathrine Peereboom sits down with Get It Magazine’s Holly Bartter to share her story of family, forward thinking, and the work her charity is doing to educate law enforcement in understanding and managing ASD (Autism Spectrum Disorder) in the

On World Autism Awareness Day this mum-of-three shares her determination for her children to me so much more than the “butt of people’s jokes, ridicule, and glares.” It’s Saturday morning and we have just walked in from therapy with the three boys and I am sitting down to my first coffee of the day. Today marks World Autism

Kathrine Peereboom, autism and vulnerable persons advocate, said she believes there needs to be more focus on acceptance and what people can do in a practical way to achieve this. “Autistic people see the world through a different lens, and they engage in a different way – in many different ways,” Ms Peereboom said. “Many

For Kathrine Peereboom, life is “quite hectic”.  As a mother of three autistic nonverbal boys under the age of ten, Kathrine and her husband’s day starts at 4:30am. That’s if the family has been able to sleep through the night.  “Even though our eldest is eight, it very much feels like we still have newborns at times,”

Raising three children who are severely autistic comes with countless and ever-changing challenges. However there is one thing keeps Kathrine Peereboom awake at night – the thought of her boys existing in the world as adults. What will happen to them then? Kathrine, 43, and husband Stephen, 52, are devoted parents to Oliver, eight, Joshua,