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Athletes reject the idea that they should be admired just for coping with disabilities, and not also for what they’ve accomplished.

When we work together, what classrooms will we create?

In 1955, the Supreme Court ruled unanimously that public schools should be racially integrated, and overturned the separate but equal doctrine established in...

PDF | An education equity mindset is fundamental to assuring all students are supported to achieve to their highest capacity.We have identified six... | Find, read and cite all the research you need on ResearchGate

It’s ironic but true: The best thing for your nervous system is another human and the worst thing for your nervous system is another human. Neuroscientist Lisa Feldman Barrett tells us why.

2015 brought us #OscarsSoWhite shedding light on the absence of BIPOC voices and representation in the Academy Awards; “an award given for artistic and technical merit in the film industry”. 2018 brought us another hashtag: #WellnessSoWhite.

In our combined 60-some years pushing schools toward transformative equity visions, we've navigated innumerable roadblocks. But only rarely is the primary roadblock a scarcity of equity initiatives. Wherever we go, school leaders can list multiple equity efforts: a book study, a student club, antibi

oh, there it is: neurodivergent people shouldn’t have to apply for ‘reasonable’ accommodations when the accommodations for natural human variation should be mutual

I hear alot of people misinterpreting or misusing the term ‘autism spectrum’. So for Autism Acceptance week, I decided to make a comic to help explain the term and how it affects things. Archie is one...

After presenting at a conference, Terra Vance was shuffled between small groups of audience members. In one group, a woman was angry Vance had not included information about how hard it is for non-autistics to have autistic parents.

Most 19th-century writers focused on Tubman’s bravery and strength. Her supporters praised her for her successful solo journeys into the slave-holding South to free dozens of enslaved people. Yet, as an enslaved woman who lived in a patriarchal and anti-Black America, Harriet Tubman’s freedom dream and fugitive activism demonstrated something else: She offered up a version of freedom where a disabled Black woman sat at the center of it, where Black women were liberators, and where liberation was communal and democratic.

This (fully captioned) video is an abridged version of the following letter, which was originally published on Medium on October 19, 2019. Dear Problem Patients: I want you to know that I believe you. No matter what is going on with your body or how strange it sounds when you try to explain it, I want … Dear Problem Patients: An open letter to anyone who’s ever felt dismissed by their doctor Listen / Read Transcript »

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Background: The victimisation of autistic people by familiar others (interpersonal victimisation) is an understudied phenomenon despite suggestions that prevalence rates may be disproportionately high. We know very little about the way autistic people perceive these experiences, and how to support them. The aim of the current study was to explore experiences of interpersonal victimisation among autistic adults from their own perspective. Method: We recruited 43 autistic adults to take part in a qualitative online study, and asked about their experiences of being victimised or taken advantage of by people they know in the past. We analysed their comments at the semantic level using inductive thematic analysis, from a critical realist perspective. Results: We identified two key themes in the data. The first theme, ‘cycles of victimisation’ highlighted the occurrence of polyvictimisation in the sample. The second (‘perceptions of victimisation’) focussed on how these experiences were related to difficulties with trust (of both self and others), the recognition of victimisation, and heightened compliance. The participants expressed difficulty with saying no to people, and found it difficult to identify when someone had negative or manipulative intentions. Conclusions: Our findings suggest that autistic adults experience victimisation from a range of close others, and may find it difficult to recognise when someone is acting in an abusive manner. Many participants had experienced heightened compliance in response to unreasonable requests from others, however reasons for this were varied (e.g. fear, desire to avoid confrontation) and require further investigation. These findings have implications for developing supports which enable autistic adults to recognise their own boundaries and advocate for themselves, in addition to helping them to recognise what a healthy relationship looks like.

In this sensitive series of portraits and interviews, photographer Rosie Barnes acknowledges the voices and experiences of autistic women.

Is ‘cancel culture’ real? Are we losing grip on the fundamental right to free speech? Are we entering a new phase of cultural authoritarianism that targets a...

Co-occurring mental health difficulties among autistic adults are common and this association has implications for mental health services. Gaining a c…

Many important curriculums on race, racism, slavery, and the Black Lives Matter movement already exist. A few examples can be found here, here, and here.

As the Black Lives Matter movement has gained steam, many white parents across the country have found themselves struggling to answer their children’s questions about race, racism, and police viole…

The new CDC guidance spells freedom.

Parents of children with disabilities say remote learning is ineffective at best, but in-person schooling carries deadly risk.

When it comes to measuring student ability, not everything that counts can be counted, argues education professor James Nehring.

Schooling Beyond Measure - Alfie Kohn

Yeah, I said it.

Last week, fired Miami Dolphins coach Brian Flores and several former female employees of the Washington Football Team shook the football world when they went p…

Introduction  Students go to school to learn. To learn, students need to know what people are telling them. They also need to be able to tell other people things. Telling things to other people - and learning things from them - is called communication.  The Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA),…