Wrap Around Services and other urban myths
By Maddy McEwen; originally published on the blog Whitterer on Autism. This term of art only has meaning in the quagmire of America. Many of us have older autistic children…
March 12, 2009
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Comments on Proposed New Jersey Autism Registry
CHANGES ARE NEEDED TO ADDRESS PRIVACY CONCERNS AND THE POTENTIAL FOR STIGMA AND MISLEADING DATA. The Division of Family Health Services has proposed new rules and amendments at N.J.A.C. 8:20…
January 13, 2009
My middle name
By Melanie Yergeau; originally posted on the blog Aspie Rhetor. The map is new, and I know it all. I hop from one painted state to the next, reciting each…
May 30, 2009
Accommodation, Fairness, and Uniformity
By Joel Smith. I talk a lot about things like inclusion, equality, and access. Unfortunately some people think I’m talking about “uniformity”. I’m not! In fact, I absolutely oppose the…
January 15, 2008
Do we get medical care?
By Joel Smith. One of the problems with prejudice is that a lot of it isn’t seen as prejudice. But that doesn’t make it right, contrary to popular belief. I…
October 25, 2007
What’s An Accommodation?
By Joel Smith. Often, autistic people are seen as needing “accommodation”. We need something “special” to function in society, something that is fundamentally different than the types of things non-disabled…
November 24, 2006
Cassandra’s Impact on Autistic Victims of Domestic Violence
By abfh; originally posted on the blog Whose Planet Is It Anyway? Much of the criticism surrounding the faux Cassandra disorder invented by Maxine Aston, wherein she claims that being…
May 6, 2009
Diversity at Work
By abfh; originally posted on the blog Whose Planet Is It Anyway? In Bev’s post Autism at work, she points out that there are many accommodations that would help autistic…
July 4, 2007
We have decided to homeschool
By Emily Willingham; originally posted on the blog A life less ordinary? Since TH was in kindergarten, he’s had a nemesis. Ironically, it was the very first person he met…
December 10, 2009
Stirring Up Action: The Winds of Disability
By Elesia Ashkenazy; originally posted on the blog Aspitude! The greatest disability is not of the body, but of a closed mind… From whom do we access information that leads…
November 11, 2009