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"A common weakness among behavior analysts is their resistance in seeking outside perspectives" "behavior analysts sometimes become aversive to other professionals"? https://t.co/fPP487L58J and they've imposed rock-bottom standards of science & ethics on autistics, for decades— Michelle Dawson (@autismcrisis) May 1, 2023

I believe that most autism professionals don't know why nonspeaking autistic people don't speak.They're also not making an effort to learn why.That means most of them don't provide therapies that help nonspeakers to communicate.Yet they make money off nonspeakers' plight.— Tania Melnyczuk (@ekverstania) May 1, 2023

Wonderful new paper on how to do respectful, ethical, collaborative research, with and for autistic people.Quick thread/ https://t.co/N58zoY8G0v— Ann Memmott PgC MA (She/They) (@AnnMemmott) April 30, 2023

**NEW**Education Newsletter from ⁦@studioIII⁩ Do share as you can 😎👍 https://t.co/Y6PpQbABaO— Gareth D Morewood (@gdmorewood) May 3, 2023

**NEW**Education Newsletter from ⁦@studioIII⁩ Do share as you can 😎👍 https://t.co/Y6PpQbABaO— Gareth D Morewood (@gdmorewood) May 3, 2023

Here’s how our community does human-centered education compatible with neurodiversity and the social model of disability.https://t.co/TMbScMB7OF#education— Stimpunks Foundation (@stimpunks) May 3, 2023

Thanks for the history and insight. We'll go with locutions for now while staying open to other phrases emerging.— Stimpunks Foundation (@stimpunks) May 2, 2023

I wouldn’t say it has the problem, since a locution is a choice of words rather than a corpus and grammar. But I’m a highly eccentric folklinguist at best and biased against Christianity tbf— Return of the Account 🌉#SaveA11yBots (@politiquestions) May 2, 2023

I updated our piece to add a note on the history of "love languages" and to use locutions instead to preserve the alliteration. But, does locutions have the same problem as languages?We'll update the header image once we decide on an alternative.https://t.co/rAQKpIUCcG— Stimpunks Foundation (@stimpunks) May 2, 2023

Anyway for me the word languages was used precisely for its normalizing and minimizing power, not to individualize; if you have “a language” and a guy “just doesn’t speak it” but then he takes a class and says ¿Donde está la biblioteca? you are obliged to recognize he speaks it— Return of the Account 🌉#SaveA11yBots (@politiquestions) May 2, 2023

The baggage is its reason for being! But I’m perhaps veering into pedantry. I like all of these alternatives though. They might all have slightly distinct usages in the same piece, even— Return of the Account 🌉#SaveA11yBots (@politiquestions) May 2, 2023

To me the language metaphor was actually the weakest part but that may just be a matter of taste, or certain experiences with linguistics departments. I also get it mixed up with location in this one context because it’s like, where does your heart live and what did it say— Return of the Account 🌉#SaveA11yBots (@politiquestions) May 2, 2023

Love locutions?locution: a word or phrase, especially with regard to style or idiom. • a person's style of speechThat meaning kinda captures the neurodivergence/difference aspect.— Stimpunks Foundation (@stimpunks) May 2, 2023

We try to frame in terms of relationship accommodations & emotional bids in our piece, but those don’t quite capture what “love languages” says. It’s a good phrase ruined by baggage.Maybe keep love but swap out languages:- love expressions- love articulations- love dialects— Stimpunks Foundation (@stimpunks) May 2, 2023

How about “relationship need” or strategy etc?— Return of the Account 🌉#SaveA11yBots (@politiquestions) May 2, 2023

We can try to help popularize an alternative term. I'm not sure what that is. Suggestions welcome.— Stimpunks Foundation (@stimpunks) May 2, 2023

True. The phrase has become so broadly used beyond those origins that we've given in and try to claim it for healthy uses. Don't know if that's the right approach, but it has so much currency.— Stimpunks Foundation (@stimpunks) May 2, 2023

We *know* there is power in an interdisciplinary education, so we decided to make it easier for teachers to bring interdisciplinary learning into their classrooms with an entirely free, fully modular interdisciplinary curriculum. 🚀 #restorehumanity https://t.co/KDncQGQUeY— Nick Covington (@CovingtonEDU) May 1, 2023

Conference to Restore Humanity included our community of neurodivergent and disabled people like no other conference has. It uses the tools of distributed companies and communities to great avail. We're looking forward to attending again this year.https://t.co/sE5JFMRise— Stimpunks Foundation (@stimpunks) April 30, 2023

I am a stutterer. I am very (maybe too 😆) comfortable with my voice right now. Many things have contributed to this peace - cold calling did not.In fact, a teacher lost just about all of the capital they’d earned with me when they did it. Months of work undone in 5 seconds. https://t.co/l7Y7cTUly1— Matthew R. Kay (@MattRKay) April 30, 2023

I’m very worried that a lot of the worst of education practices—draconian late penalties, zero tolerance deadlines, weaponizing grades, etc.—are what many teachers see as “the solution” in this moment.We can’t go backward to meet this moment for students. https://t.co/JGKenehU7N— Marcus Luther (@MarcusLuther6) May 2, 2023

Explaining the Pitfalls of a "Profound Autism" study with @kristenbott: “The records the researchers had access to were not designed to classify subjects with #ProfoundAutism (since the term did not exist at the time the records were created).”https://t.co/oOu5Cqb4o7 #INSAR2023— Thinking Person's Guide To Autism (@thinkingautism) May 2, 2023

Our PD:1) Talk to students. Learn and listen.2) Share with teachers/admin. Build action plans.3) Document changes and share best practices.4) Support throughout the year, build feedback loops.#RestoreHumanity to education = partnering together. https://t.co/VwNCqWdvwh pic.twitter.com/noDwJ7wM9x— Human Restoration Project (@HumResPro) May 2, 2023

#Autistic LoveLanguage #PenguinPebbling, an exchange between 2 people to show they care. Not exclusive to #autism but possibly something more #neurodivergent people resonate with due to social/ communication differences? What do you think? https://t.co/p1FHxcXV3I— @Autistic Realms (@autisticrealms) May 2, 2023

📓 629 pages 🚀 41 lessons💻 246 extension activities🌍 Pedagogical Guide💡 Impact GuideWe spent much of 2022 creating an entire interdisciplinary curriculum for our partner @HolisticTT. Now that curriculum is available here - in full - for free!https://t.co/N1bNzISFgs pic.twitter.com/IoBjO06zPU— Human Restoration Project (@HumResPro) May 1, 2023

Our vision of the IDS is intended to be modular, extendable, and progressive! 🚀If you'd prefer an overview before diving right into the resources, we have a short preview here on our site:https://t.co/zpbVIdmplo https://t.co/0Agqo194Ut— Human Restoration Project (@HumResPro) May 2, 2023

Linguists have a tendency to use the languaging of autistic people to decide what is human and what is not human. Autistic people are "not human" and allistic people are "human". This is also evident in Iris Berent's recent work on autism and "dualism"— Jon Henner (@jmhenner) May 1, 2023

Hence, my issue with describing Autistic language as "language disorder". I don't use that term. Similarly, "social communication disorder" also irrelevant. See why 👇 https://t.co/sXleQCIzpn— Elaine Mcgreevy (@ElaineMcgreevy) May 1, 2023

Question for everyone:Supposing you got a new job working in a care home for autistic people. The training days started with a day (or more) on how to use restraints on them.What message would that give you about autistic people?— Ann Memmott PgC MA (She/They) (@AnnMemmott) May 2, 2023