Empowerment Through Self-Advocacy
All About Schmus & St. Clair
Looking for a start on your advocacy journey, we’ll look no further, because Robert Schmus and Nick St. Clair are here to help autistics and their families. By booking our services, we will help to empower autistic individuals, their families, and their community.
Speaking
We Are Here To Empower
Get Ready to Be Inspired
Through their speaking engagements, Schmus & St. Clair present their autistic self-advocacy based on their personal and life experiences by provide strategies from those experiences. Packed with life lessons, awareness, useful strategies regarding neurodivergents on and off the autism spectrum, as well as some humor, your audience will gain the knowledge they need to feel empowered.
We Are Here For You
Let Schmus & St. Clair deliver to you great skills that will have your feel the empowerment they need to be successful. We recognize the full spectrum of the autism community, as well as the unique and beneficial attributes that we bring. We also honor disability. Through our engagements, we hope to elevate the life experience of those in the community and its allies to bring inspiration for growth and inclusion.
But, What Is It?
You must be asking yourselves, "Schmus & St. Clair says those their speaking engagements inspire the neurodivergent community, but what exactly do they talk about?" Well, I am glad you ask. As stated before, our talks focus on self-advocacy through experience and the strategies learned from that experience. The following topics are covered:
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Navigating through social challenges and build on social skills.
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Understanding how narrowed interests can be strengths.
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How to work on obtaining employment.
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Transitioning from adolescence into adulthood.
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How to cope with anxiety, depression, and other mental health issues.
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How the community as a whole can help autistic individuals
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And many more!
The Schmus & St. Clair Team
Robert Schmus, MSW, LCSW
Robert is a passionate autistic self-advocate. Throughout his life, Robert always thought there was something different about him. He had difficulty with social situations and had narrowed interests. Indeed, he saw the world in a different way. It wasn’t until the age of 15 when he found out that he was autistic that’s things started to make sense. From then on, it was his life mission to help autistics and other neurodivergents to gain the tools they need to advocate for himself. Along with advocacy work, Robert is a licensed therapist with years of experience working with those with mental health needs, including autistics and other neurodivergents.
As a neurodivergent, he brings his refreshing, insightful perspectives as a clinician and an autistic person to his presentations, providing helpful information to families, people with autism and other neuro-diversities and the people who support them. In his free time, he loves traveling, working out, reading, writing, painting, listening to music, as well as spending time with his family, friends, and wife.
Nick St. Clair
Nick St. Clair is a person who does artwork and public speeches. He was diagnosed with autism at the age of 2. As a child, he had a lot of trouble making friends, expressing his feelings, and expressing what he wanted everytime something caught his eye. However, Nick was obsessed with cartoons every day since the age of 2 so he started drawing at the age of 12. It became his hobby to show to other people every time he drew a cartoon.  Many years later he realized that showing his artwork has not only helped him make new friends and relationships along the way, it has also helped him develop Nick's social skills by learning from his friends and peers after he showed his art so that he can be able to help advocate for himself better and become more respected. As a result, drawing became Nick's vehicle for self advocating throughout his life. Because of his story, he has now done 5 speeches, has displayed his artwork in over 15 different libraries and galleries across New Jersey, has volunteered to help  autistic individuals and Is always eager for a new opportunity to help give back those who gave Nick the help he once needed so he can develop new skills to help better the autism community.
Get in Touch
Find out more about Schmus & St. Clair, their speaking services, and their prices per talk.
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