Shaping Autism Research in the UK
Addressing the gulf between autism research that gets done, and the research that people in the autism community want
Open Society
Defining the User Experience We Desire
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Why Is Digital Sociology?
Any attempt at knowledge production has to answer the basic question of what it is. But, before long, it must also address the question of why it is. As early as the 1990s sociologists were asking …
How Digital Sociology?
I argued that digital sociology, as a distinct subfield, needs to not only have a what but a why. It also needs a how. As I see it, digital sociology will: observe macro changes in the digital soci…
Humiliation and the Modern Professor
In my fourth try at collecting an undergraduate degree I finally found real help. Struggling once again I signed up to be part of a multi-un...
The issue here is that laptops in the classroom represent the first real chance at Universal Design for Learning - the first real chance to allow every student to choose the media format most appropriate for their own needs - the first real chance for students who are different to be accommodated without labels, and I'll be damned if I'm willing to give that up for the vanity of a few faculty who cannot figure out how to teach with the greatest information and communication tool humans have ever developed.
Poverty ideological imperative
Lydia X. Z. Brown on Twitter
“so people are incentivized to be at each other's throats and develop major cases of Tall Poppy Syndrome that leads to the abusive dynamic of both pedestalizing people and demonizing people once any one of us does receive public attention/a platform.”
All of Us Are Smarter Than Any of Us
September 23, 2020 All of Us Are Smarter Than Any of Us By Alfie Kohn The Western conception of the person as a bounded, unique, more or less integrated motivational and cognitive universe, a dynamic
The Bioarchaeology Of Care The SAA Archaeological Record : The SAA Archaeological Record • May 2012 • Volume 12 • Number 3
Lorna Tilley is a Doctoral Student at the School of Archaeology and Anthropology, Australian National University. In early Neolithic Vietnam, a young man …
Autistic perspectives on the future of clinical autism research
(PDF) Autistic perspectives on the future of clinical autism research
PDF | On Jun 10, 2022, Heta Pukki and others published Autistic perspectives on the future of clinical autism research | Find, read and cite all the research you need on ResearchGate
Dispeopleintldev
“Nothing About Us Without Us”: Disability Rights in America | OAH Magazine of History | Oxford Academic
The concept of legal rights for people with disabilities is rooted in the long established American ideals of autonomy and self-determination. Application of th
Transforming Parent-Child Relationships - Naomi Aldort
Naomi Aldort is one of the leading parenting guides in the world today, and is a widely respected writer and attachment parenting advocate.
About neurodiversity content in LEANS
About the neurodiversity concepts in LEANS, and how we explain them for pupils and teachers.
Explaining Fairness (LEANS resource 5.3)
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The problem with that equity vs. equality graphic you’re using
[NOTE: November 1, 2016. This post has been updated based on the new things I’ve learned about these images since posting the original article.] I was doing some work for a colleague at the F…
Professional guide meeting needs autistic learners
Additional Support Needs - The General Teaching Council for Scotland
- The General Teaching Council for Scotland
Autism, and the pseudoscience of psychiatry · Tania Melnyczuk
The DSM and its ilk are unscientific rubbish.
Learning About Neurodiversity at School (LEANS)
A free curriculum for mainstream primary schools to introduce pupils aged 8-11 years to the concept of neurodiversity, and how it impacts our experiences at school.
Why You Can Focus on Video Games (and How to Hack it)
Can you or your ADHD child focus on video games for hours on end but when it comes time to study it's downright impossible? Here's why -- and what we can do ...
GAConf 2018: A Fraught Love Letter to the Games Industry
A talk at the 2018 Gaming Accessibility Conference by Cherry Thompson, an accessibility advocate.
Addressing Sensory Needs for Children With Autism Spectrum Disorder in the Classroom - Jaclyn M. Dynia, Katherine M. Walton, Grace M. Sagester, Elizabeth K. Schmidt, Kelly J. Tanner, 2022
Despite substantial comorbidity of sensory dysfunction and autism spectrum disorder (ASD), there are few evidence-based sensory interventions for educators to i...
Downloadable Disability Access Symbols - The Graphic Artist Guild
These disability symbols advertise your accessibility to anyone who needs access to your building or offices.
Common HIPAA Issues – Health Records Edition
Every year, I endeavor to get medical records from my healthcare providers and every year I run into several issues in getting those records. As a result, I am forever fighting the same battles wit…
Autism and Intense Interests: Why We Love What We Love and Why It Should Matter to You — THINKING PERSON'S GUIDE TO AUTISM
Encourage our intense interests. And if you are Autistic, do not feel ashamed of or guilty about your intense interests.
The Autistic members of our human family are in crisis. Anxiety and depression occur at alarmingly high rates, and our rates of suicidal thoughts, attempts, and completions are horrifying. Encouraging Autists to spend time with our intense interests is not enabling or coddling us. It is crucial to our well-being, happiness, thriving, growth, and — overly-dramatic though it might sound to you — keeping us alive. Whether it’s categorizing every leaf from every tree in the neighborhood or taking 127 photos of the cat doesn’t matter. What matters is that the interest is special to us, of our own choosing, and warmly encouraged. I am not being hyperbolic when I tell you this is a matter of life and death for us.
Monotropism.mp4
Monotropism in Practice
Monotropism is valuable as a theory of autism, but perhaps it is really its practical applications that demand the most attention - at school, at play, at work and in mental health.
Autistic children and intense interests: the key to their educational inclusion?
Autistic children and adults are often described as ‘obsessive’ or as having ‘narrow’, ‘restricted’ or ‘circumscribed’ interests. And when this trait…
Nevertheless, it seemed to me that in some cases at least, the autistic children in my study were turning to their strong interests in times of stress or anxiety. And there has certainly been a lot of research which shows that autistic children and young people find school very stressful. So it might be the case that when this autistic trait is manifested negatively in school, it is a direct result of the stresses that school creates in the first instance.