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The concept of ‘ma’ represents a space of potentiality, a space that is open to the emergence of new ideas and experiences. Through the…

We introduce Crip Linguistics as a theoretical and abolitionist framework. People use languages in different ways. Some people use language to help find other people like themselves. Many people use language in specific ways because of how their body and mind work. Sometimes a person’s material conditions, and environment forces them to use language in a certain way. When someone languages outside of what people think is normal, others can think they are bad with language, or are not as smart as someone else. No one is actually ‘bad with language.’ We want to help people understand that no language is bad. It is okay to want to change your language use if it will make you feel better. No one should make you feel badly about your language. We need a bigger and more flexible understanding of what language is.

Restorative practices is the science of relationships and community. When applied in schools, restorative practices proactively improves climate and culture. Restorative practices also provides responses to wrongdoing that focus on repairing harm. Th...

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 ...

Universal Workplace Ultranauts' work environment is intentionally designed to be inclusive of everyone, which we call a Universal Workplace. While the  concept of a Universal Workplace continues to evolve, it is underpinned by several Management Principles that have remained constant over time. These Principles define what is vital in the design of our organization, shape

Lisa Wennerth interviews Alex Shevrin Venet, author Equity-Centered Trauma-Informed Education . Venet explains how schools can become more truly trauma-informed when they center equity and employ “proactive priorities” in planning and decision making. A long time ungrader, Alex examines how the sam

Purpose WordPress believes our community should be truly open for everyone. As such, we are committed to providing a friendly, safe and welcoming environment for all, regardless of gender, sexual o…

Poor mental health—compared to that of the neurotypical child population—is a serious concern for many autistic children and young people around the world. In the UK, we have an increasing number o...

Poor mental health—compared to that of the neurotypical child population—is a serious concern for many autistic children and young people around the world. In the UK, we have an increasing number o...

PDF | On Jul 12, 2023, Richard Woods and others published 'Profound Autism': The Dire Consequences of Diagnostic Overshadowing. | Find, read and cite all the research you need on ResearchGate

My autistic brain can be in danger of overload while grocery shopping. It needs a quiet space—fast. But there are usually none in big stores.

Autism and Aging: A Lifespan Approach- Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., publishers is a privately held, fully integrated media company known for establishing authoritative peer-reviewed journals in the most promising areas of biotechnology and regenerative medicine, biomedical research, clinical medicine and surgery, technology and engineering, law, integrative medicine, public health, and environmental studies.

The Double Empathy Problem and Perceptions of an Autistic Employee in the Workplace by @KASzechy et al found that more autistic employees accurately interpret the behavior of an autistic employee than non-autistic people NEW FREE to Aug 30https://t.co/A6NHSMWmJr pic.twitter.com/qwqoYV9ybr— Autism In Adulthood (@AutismAdulthood) August 23, 2023

Although not a recognized clinical term, there is a phenomenon in the ADHD community known as “wait mode.” Wait mode refers to when you have time right now, but there is a scheduled eve…

People who criticize African American Vernacular English don't see that it shares grammatical structures with more "prestigious" languages.

Fergus Murray at the Scottish Autism Research Group 2023 Meeting If you care about the wellbeing of autistic people, you need to try to understand autism. If you want to understand autism, you need to understand monotropism. That’s true whether or not you believe (like me) that Monotropism is by far the closest thing we […]

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Most poorly planned movement work can be brought down by one question: What about disabled and elderly people?— @ImaniBarbarin@disabled.social (@Imani_Barbarin) August 20, 2023

Having just started the anthology Women from Another Planet? , I can tell that it's going to be full of topics I'm going to want to blog abo...

At the top of the world, the Inuit culture has developed a sophisticated way to sculpt kids' behavior without yelling or scolding. Could discipline actually be playful?