Donna Williams: Autism and Sensing
Open Society
Donna Williams: EA; The Invisible Cage
Exposure Anxiety & Autism
Exposure Anxiety was first written about in Nobody Nowhere in 1991 as a syndrome of involuntary and compulsive avoidance, diversion and retaliation responses. A large section of my first text book…
Abnormally paranoid about how loud others are. : AutismTranslated
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Mosh Pits Teach Us About the Physics of Collective Behavior
Even willfully "random" crowd behavior is predictable.
Embracing the Chaos: Mosh Pits, Extreme Metal Music and Liminality
Published in Journal for Cultural Research (Vol. 15, No. 3, 2011)
The Science Behind Mosh Pits
Mosh pits may look chaotic, but how people act in them are anything but. Mosh pits appear animal, violent, and unruly. But beneath all the swinging arms and ...
'Rough Consensus and Running Code' and the Internet-OSI Standards War | IEEE Journals & Magazine | IEEE Xplore
Internet historians recognize the technical achievements but often overlook the bureaucratic innovations of Internet pioneers. The phrase, "We reject: kings, presidents, and voting. We believe in: rough consensus and running code," was coined by David Clark in 1992. This article explains how the phrase captured the technical and political values of Internet engineers during a crucial phase in the Internet's growth.
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Human Restoration Project (HRP) is a 501(c)3 non-profit corporation seeking to create radically student-centered classrooms through progressive educative practice.
Tier 4 Autism Mental Health Training | Training | Anna Freud Centre
Behaviorism is Dead. How Do We Tell The (Autism) Parents? » NeuroClastic
Dog trainer Carol Millman is back with another article looking at the archaic science of behaviorism and why it should have been retired long ago.
Dr Georgia Pavlopoulou (she/her) on Twitter
Check #Tier4AF AND https://t.co/H9Rs79GujX for more info— Dr Georgia Pavlopoulou (she/her) (@JoPavlopoulou) August 2, 2022
Mental Illness Is Not in Your Head - Boston Review
Decades of biological research haven't improved diagnosis or treatment. We should look to society, not to the brain.
And how about stigma? As anthropologist Helena Hansen has argued, the neuroscience of addiction has often reinforced stigma by reducing substance use to an individual problem, instead of the result of structural factors rooted in longer histories of racial violence.
Monotropism - Explanations
Whether you are new to the theory or interested in digging deeper, there are many possible places to start. The animation below is an accessible 4-minute introduction to the key ideas. Access note: the visuals in this video provide a semi-abstract interpretation of the words, and are not required to understand the content. These comic […]
Autistic Community and the Neurodiversity Movement
This open access book demonstrates the first historical overview of the autism rights branch of the neurodiversity movement, describing the activities and rationales of key leaders in their own words between 1992 and the present day since it organized into a unique community.
The 10 affirmations of good digital accessibility | Deque
July 26th, 2022 marks the 32nd anniversary of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA). Consider these 10 affirmations when building good accessible experiences online.
Care Tactics | Laura Mauldin
Caregivers and disabled people have been left to hack their way through a world indifferent—if not outright hostile—to their actual needs and desires.
Fifteen things you've got wrong about autistic people | Pete Wharmby on Patreon
Official Post from Pete Wharmby
Lack of Accessibility Isn’t Just Illegal – It’s Gatekeeping
I work for a couple cons as a disability access coordinator – that’s the first thing you need to know. I’m not willing to engage in a dialogue about “what are YOU willing to…
How to Make Your Presentations and Meetings Accessible to All
Helps make your presentations and meetings accessible to people with disabilities. Addresses in-person, remote, and hybrid events.
Increasing Diversity at Your Conference | ashe dryden
Accessibility Checklist for SFWA Spaces - SFWA
The SFWA Accessibility Checklist is provided for the use of conventions and other gatherings who want to ensure that their event is fully accessible by all attendees. Questions and feedback about the list should be directed to office@sfwa.org Event Committee Resources There is a member of the committee or event staff with working knowledge of accessibility […]
Disabled Fans and Creators Are Kept Out of Too Many Conventions. Now They're Not Alone.
Science fiction and fantasy conventions exist in the venn diagram between professional networking events, marketing expos and fan celebrations. Between all three of those things, they do a lot to shape fandom and the stories we love. And for years now, conventions have been failing disabled fans and professionals. So…
Accessibility for WordCamps - ryelle codes
If you’re coming here from a link I’ve shared, WordCamps are conferences for WordPress. I’m very involved in the WordPress events community, so I wanted to highlight some ways for…
Inclusive and welcoming events
WordCamp organizers are expected to prioritize inclusion and diversity by creating a 100% welcoming atmosphere at WordCamp and actively recruiting diverse organizers, speakers, and volunteers. For …
Code of Conduct
Below is the WordCamp code of conduct that you can customize with the name for your event and your contact information. We also recommend the organizing team read this article on how to take a hara…
Shawna Potter on Making Spaces Safer, Accountability, & Conflict Resolution
“People might not want to show up to a protest or march, but they will show up to a show. So if I have a captive audience, I always make sure they’re gonna hear what I have to say. And …
Creating human-scale learning organisations
Progress in healthcare delivery and many other domains and industries is contingent on organisations that are capable of absorbing and learning from increasing volumes of data, and capable of integ…
All healthy and resilient institutions have a well-functioning competency network [26][32]. A good way to understand competency networks is via the notion of trustworthiness and the nurturing and maintenance of trusted relationships [33].
A competency network is the graph of experience-based pair-wise trustworthiness ratings in relation to various domains between the members of a group.
The trustworthiness ratings in a competency network are tied to specific pairs of individuals, and by definition they are not directly transferable and never aggregated into any global ranking. The notion of competency networks is inspired by the correlation between software system structures and the communication patterns between human software developers observed by Mel Conway in 1967 [34].
Teams – Jorn Bettin
Posts about Teams written by Jorn Bettin
Competency Network - P2P Foundation