Maia Aziz P.S.W., C.L.Y.L., writes and speaks on living a life of love and laughter. President-Elect of The Association for Applied and Therapeutic Humor, Maia is joined each week on Morning Moments With Maia...Conversations of Love and Laughter by an eclectic lineup of guests who live their lives with love and laughter and work to help others do the same.

www.withloveandlaughter.ca

Jason Goldsmith is an industrial designer and communication artist who founded the company The Big Blue Hug in 2006 to share his story of fatherhood to autism advocate. Having developed the creative communication methodology, Picture Talking, as a means of unlocking his relationship with his son, Jason now gives regular trainings on language stimulation in schools, developmental centres and universities and is considered a leading autism advocate whose work has received national and local media attention through interviews with CBC (Montrealer of the week), CJAD (Tommy Schnurmacher), and CTV.  Jason Goldsmith received an award for his contribution to the Montreal autism community from the Montreal Autism Awareness Gala 2011 and The Big Blue Hug has been awarded Le Concours québécois en entrepreneuriat 2007, Montreal West. Today Jason joins Maia to share a conversation about his own journey to autism advocacy and how art can at once connect and inspire.

www.thebigbluehug.com