Antonia Rathbun Lindsey
Antonia Rathbun Lindsey is a retired, internationally recognized art therapist, child and family therapist, and FASD specialist with 40 years of experience, and author of the guidebook "Parenting Your Porcupine."
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Sep 21, 2026
34:14
When I was working... up in British Columbia with a community up there, a First Nations community.
34:22
How I had been trained to use art was to treat all art products as if they are part of a clinical record.
34:31
But here I was in a community in which people, and this is close to 30 years ago, before the reconciliation had happened around the deaths and abuses of residential schools.
34:45
And I'm working with a nation whose indigenous language had no written alphabet, many of whom had been residential school survivors, had family members who'd been survivors.
2:35
And your producer asked me to say why I'm moving my hands all the time.
2:41
And Part of it is I forget that I do it because I can speak, but I'm deafened.
2:49
I live with a genetic disorder that took away my hearing and left vestibular symptoms.
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