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Category learning in autism: Are some situations better than others? - PubMed
Category learning in autism: Are some situations better than others? - PubMed
Autism is diagnosed according to atypical social-communication and repetitive behaviors. However, autistic individuals are also distinctive in the high variability of specific abilities such as learning. Having been characterized as experiencing great difficulty with learning, autistics have also be …
·pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov·
Category learning in autism: Are some situations better than others? - PubMed
An experience sensitive approach to care with and for autistic children and young people in clinical services
An experience sensitive approach to care with and for autistic children and young people in clinical services
Many support schemes in current autism clinical services for children and young people are based on notions of neuro-normativity with a behavioural emphasis. Such neuro-disorder approaches gradually undermine a person, restrain authentic self-expression, and fail to address the impact of a hostile world on autistic wellbeing. Furthermore, such approaches obscure attention from a fundamental challenge to conceptualise an alternative humanistic informed framework of care for staff working with diagnosed or undiagnosed autistic children and young people. In this paper, we offer an appreciation of the lifeworld-led model of care by Todres et al., (2009). We discuss how mental health practitioners can adopt an experience sensitive framework of healthcare by incorporating the eight dimensions of care into practice. This neuroinclusive approach creates a culture of respect, honours the sovereignty of the person, prioritises personalisation of care based on collaborative decision-making, and enables practitioners to support wellbeing from an existential, humanistic view, grounded in acceptance of autistic diversity of being. Without a fundamental shift towards such neurodivergence-affirming support with practitioners being willing to transform their understanding, real progress cannot happen to prevent poor mental health outcomes for autistic people across the lifespan. This shift is needed to change practice across research, clinical, and educational contexts.
·osf.io·
An experience sensitive approach to care with and for autistic children and young people in clinical services
What does/should inclusion even mean to the autistic learner?
What does/should inclusion even mean to the autistic learner?
I feel that the equity versus equality ‘debate’ (Baily & Holmarsdottir, 2015; Bird, 2018) is more than pertinent when any discussion about autistic inclusion takes place. The idea that all...
·bera.ac.uk·
What does/should inclusion even mean to the autistic learner?
International Literacy Association Hub
International Literacy Association Hub
The recent dissemination of selective research findings related to reading privileges a narrow body of reading scholarship and a singular, unproven solution—teaching phonics. We offer a research-base...
·ila.onlinelibrary.wiley.com·
International Literacy Association Hub
Culture Clash: Bob Marley, Joe Strummer and the punky reggae party
Culture Clash: Bob Marley, Joe Strummer and the punky reggae party
Marley’s single Punk Reggae Party put a name to an underground phenomenon – the coming together of the punks and the Rastas at the height of 70s social unrest. That era may be over, but the punky reggae spirit still lives and breathes
·theguardian.com·
Culture Clash: Bob Marley, Joe Strummer and the punky reggae party
Formative Posts
Formative Posts
Formative Posts are things that other people have written …
·mersontheperson.micro.blog·
Formative Posts
There is No Such Thing As “The Science of Learning” | Human Restoration Project | Nick Covington Michael Weingarth
There is No Such Thing As “The Science of Learning” | Human Restoration Project | Nick Covington Michael Weingarth
Nick Covington & Michael Weingarth call for a moratorium on using "The Science of Learning" to describe one aspect of how the brain works in relation to the multiple goals of school. Published by Human Restoration Project, a 501(c)3 organization restoring humanity to education.
·humanrestorationproject.org·
There is No Such Thing As “The Science of Learning” | Human Restoration Project | Nick Covington Michael Weingarth
Autistic Adults Are Not Okay
Autistic Adults Are Not Okay
Autistic Adults Are Not Okay is the title of Victoria Tanner's first book, which she hopes will bring visibility to struggling autistic adults
·victannerbook.com·
Autistic Adults Are Not Okay
Just another hashtag
Just another hashtag
“Can't sleep. Need to. But too disturbed. Have read the articles. Have not watched the video - can't handle it right now. And won't share it. Just shaken. If there had been no video we all know exactly how this would have went down. This was cold-blooded and deliberate murder along
·web.archive.org·
Just another hashtag
Ibram X. Kendi’s Anti-Racism
Ibram X. Kendi’s Anti-Racism
The historian espoused grand ambitions to dismantle American racism, but the crisis at his research center suggests that he always had a more limited view of change.
·newyorker.com·
Ibram X. Kendi’s Anti-Racism
Autism — Divergent Psychology
Autism — Divergent Psychology
We understand that Autism is a neurotype with strengths as well as challenges. We support individuals in building regulation, finding 'their people' and finding Autism-friendly environments. We are familiar with the PDA profile and work in a trauma-informed manner with PDAers.
·divergentpsychology.com.au·
Autism — Divergent Psychology
History of ANI
History of ANI
·autismnetworkinternational.org·
History of ANI
Reviving the concept of cousins.
Reviving the concept of cousins.
Someone decided this was going to be Autistic History Month.  I had another contribution I was going to write.  In fact, it’s already almost written.  But I ended up writing this instead.  At first…
·ballastexistenz.wordpress.com·
Reviving the concept of cousins.
Anti-ableism and scientific accuracy in autism research: a false dichotomy
Anti-ableism and scientific accuracy in autism research: a false dichotomy
It was recently argued that autism researchers committed to rejecting ableist frameworks in their research may sacrifice “scientifically accurate” conceptualizations of autism. In this perspective piece, we argue that: (a) anti-ableism vs. scientific accuracy is a false dichotomy, (b) there is no ideology-free science that has claim to scientific accuracy, and (c) autism science has a history of false leads in part because of unexamined ableist ideologies that undergird researcher framings and interpretations of evidence. To illustrate our claims, we discuss several avenues of autism research that were promoted as scientific advances, but were eventually debunked or shown to have much less explanatory value than initially proposed. These research programs have involved claims about autism etiology, the nature of autism and autistic characteristics, and autism intervention. Common to these false leads have been ableist assumptions about autism that inform researcher perspectives. Negative impacts of this work have been mitigated in some areas of autism research, but these perspectives continue to exert influence on the lives of autistic people, including the availability of services, discourses about autism, and sociocultural conceptualizations of autistic people. Examining these false leads may help current researchers better understand how ableism may negatively influence their areas of inquiry. We close with a positive argument that promoting anti-ableism can be done in ...
·frontiersin.org·
Anti-ableism and scientific accuracy in autism research: a false dichotomy