Winn Claybaugh Interviews Sensory Safe Solution for Individuals with Autism Founder Kate Owens Heins

SANDY, Utah - Sept. 4, 2024 - PRLog -- Kate Owens Heins, CEO and founder of Sensory Safe Solution for Individuals with Autism, has decades of experience as a hairstylist and salon owner. She also brings a deeply personal touch as the parent of a son with autism. As she persevered through hours of therapies and the demands of parenting an autistic child, she became keenly aware of the lack of education and empathy within the beauty industry. Other parents recounted the horrors of having their children restrained by numerous adults to receive a haircut, being asked to leave the salon or shop, or even worse, being refused at the door. Many parents were left with the task of cutting their children's hair at home or while they slept.

Families were being traumatized by industry professionals. Kate knew she had to do something; she knew they could do better.

The Sensory Safe Solution teaches industry professionals about autism spectrum disorder (ASD), behaviors that may be present during a salon service, and the best practices recommended to alleviate the sensory overload or increased anxiety that impacts many individuals.

Interviewed by Winn Claybaugh, Kate vividly shares her story of raising a son with autism (now 11 years old) and the work she has done to create a curriculum and certification for her fellow hairdressers to create sensory safe experiences. Kate describes the unique challenges that individuals with autism face in everyday situations and how families with children with autism are being traumatized by something as simple as receiving a haircut, visiting a restaurant, traveling in an airplane, and many other environments.

About MASTERS by Winn Claybaugh

Winn Claybaugh has interviewed over 325 beauty and business professionals, artists, educators, and mentors for his popular MASTERS series. With over 1 million downloads and 100 podcasts to date, MASTERS by Winn Claybaugh features a new interview every month plus "classics" from the 20-year collection.

The MASTERS roster includes beauty industry luminaries like Vidal Sassoon, Robert Lobetta, Ted Gibson, Tabatha Coffee, Ruth Roche, Vivienne Mackinder, and John Paul DeJoria, along with leaders outside the industry: actors Gary Sinise and Fran Drescher, entertainer and philanthropist Marie Osmond, inspirational speaker and author Tim Storey, bestselling author and wealth/wisdom advisor Patrice Washington, TV and radio personalities Leeza Gibbons and Larry King, American hero and double amputee Cedric King, Paralympic champion Mike Schlappi, hearing-impaired comedian and motivational speaker Kathy Buckley, Emmy nominated actor-producer Monique Coleman, and more—telling their stories and sharing their wisdom.

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