Reflections on Autistic Burnout – Understanding Autistics
(Note: this post is about “deep burnout” – which is usually a huge, life-altering event which often takes a very long period of time to recover from. People can experience shorter term burnou…
AuSocial: Towards an understanding of Autistic social culture - Emergent Divergence
In my book The New Normal: Autistic musings on the threat of a broken society I have a chapter about Autistic social nature. Autistic people have widely been represented as being asocial, which is patently absurd. Autistic people have a rich and diverse social culture that has been ignored for a long time. "One of
From the perspective of the early 21st century, things look pretty grim. A deadly cocktail of crises engulf the people of planet Earth and all other forms of biotic life which share it: a geopoliti…
Ableism is what makes all other “isms” effective… White supremacy is the goal, ableism is the toolkit. pic.twitter.com/r3zpVhaDsA— @ImaniBarbarin@disabled.social (@Imani_Barbarin) August 14, 2023
School chronic absence hits record rates post-reopening | Fortune
From a 15% chronic absence rate, it's now over 25% nationwide and a shocking 48.6% in Alaska, per data compiled by Stanford's Thomas Dee in partnership with the AP.
Is it advisable for one who is not an expert on economic and social issues to express views on the subject of socialism? I believe for a number of reasons that it is.
The Criterion of the Least Dangerous Assumption - Anne M. Donnellan, 1984
Currently, educators lack longitudinal data measuring both the qualitative and quantitative outcomes of various educational interventions used with handicapped ...
Emotional Crisis Response: The Peer-Run Respite/Soteria House Approach Compared to the Conventional Approach «
Lauren Spiro – March 28, 2023 This article is an invitation to open our perceptions to other approaches of supporting people through emotional crisis. Rather than pathologizing behavior we ca…
Educate to Liberate: Black Panther Liberation Schools | The Studio Museum in Harlem
In 1968, just two years after the Black Panther Party (BPP) was founded in Oakland, California, the Party’s headquarters mandated that all chapters inaugurate “serve the people” programs. Community
Helping SEN children develop life skills through Forest School - UK NAEE
Molly Toal, Lancashire Wildlife Trust The Wildlife Trust for Lancashire, Manchester and North Merseyside (otherwise known as LWT) have been running their Forest School Project in Manchester since 2015 and in Liverpool since 2017. Project officers work with urban schools for a year, delivering free Forest School sessions, offering accredited Level 3 Forest School Leadership training…
Monotropism and Autism: What IS Monotropism and how does it apply to Autistic People?
Monotropism (a key feature of Autism) is a person's tendency to focus their attention on a small number of interests at any time, tending to miss things outside of this attention tunnel.
lisa chapman on Twitter: "1/9 Listening to autistic teenagers talk about their special interests has been an epic & joyful adventure. My MSc research=getting those voices heard. Many 'thank yous', above all to the teenagers involved, their families, & my own YP for the inspiration https://t.co/0ad2AcPRhZ https://t.co/t47k4RiGRu" / X
1/9 Listening to autistic teenagers talk about their special interests has been an epic & joyful adventure. My MSc research=getting those voices heard. Many 'thank yous', above all to the teenagers involved, their families, & my own YP for the inspiration https://t.co/0ad2AcPRhZ pic.twitter.com/t47k4RiGRu— lisa chapman (@CommonSenseSLT) August 10, 2023
