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Category Archives: Disability Rights and Neurodiversity
We need to listen
by Liz Pellicano When I was a young academic at Oxford University, I was lucky enough to work with several autistic students, helping them to negotiate the complexities of that ancient institution and of college life more generally. Every one of them touched my life – and influenced...
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The Acceptance Letter
Dear Mumu, One day, in case you ever feel like knowing more about how you light up our world, I am building a digital hope chest of words for you to read or hear. People say it doesn’t matter what I write. You won’t understand. Ever. But I believe...
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From One Ally to the Education Community: A New View of Students with Autism
Cheryl M. Jorgensen, Ph.D., Inclusive Education Consultant Affiliate Faculty, Department of Education, University of New Hampshire Note: A shorter version of this article originally appeared in the Winter/Spring 2011 “Rap Sheet” published by the Institute on Disability at the University of New Hampshire and is reprinted with permission. “He’s...
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And Straight On Till Morning
by Meg Evans The stories that we tell our children from their earliest days determine the course of their lives. So it has always been with humankind, ever since bright-eyed children gathered in the firelight to hear the hunters’ tales of the grand sagas painted on the cave walls,...
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Autism Acceptance Month Essay
by Carol Quirk I once thought autism meant a lot of inabilities: cannot talk, cannot switch topics, cannot give eye contact, cannot handle transitions or new routines, cannot read social cues, cannot control motor movements, etc. And I once thought some of the can-dos were not necessarily “adaptive” (as...
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It’s Autism Sunday (Pity Party at Church)
by Kate Gladstone It’s Autism Sunday, that one day a year We welcome in fellowship “those folks” ’round here. We pray to become more autistic-aware On this one special Sunday: the rest, we don’t care. We’ll pray for you all, you’re the cause of the week: But please...
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The Debate About Euthanasia
by Lateef H McLeod on DisabilityRightNow Recently there has been a resurgence of debate of whether or not euthanasia is a viable ethical option for people with disabilities. Proponents of euthanasia stress that since all Americans have the right to life and have the authority of how to end...
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All Done Autism Awareness
by Shannon Des Roches Rosa There’s a saying we overuse in my household: “All done, !” We’ve actually swiped the saying from our son Leo, who is eleven and autistic, as “all done” is what he proclaims when he is completely fed up with the activity or person at...
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Plants Outside the Shade
by Amanda Baggs This is a personal description of some of what autism means to me. Because even among other autistic people such descriptions are too rare. Autism means that my earliest memories are of floating in among the feel of things. Not how they looked or sounded,...
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Acceptance vs. Awareness
by Kassiane S. I often say awareness is the No Child Left Behind of advocacy. It’s a start, but no means a finishing point we should be satisfied with. It is not until people understand and acceot that we can say progress has been made. What’s the difference, you...
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