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Dental Care and Profound Autism: Inchstones with Dr. Sydnee Chavis

What if your child’s first dental visit was about more than teeth?

In this episode of Inchstones, Sarah Kernion sits down with Special Needs Dentist, Dr. Sydnee Chavis, for a raw and real conversation about raising children with profound autism and apraxia. Together, they explore how personal experience with neurodiversity has shaped their work—one through dentistry, the other through financial strategy—and how every inchstone, from brushing teeth to building a care team, is a major milestone.

They unpack what it means to advocate for children who are non-speaking, the emotional labor of…

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