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Year: 2021

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Disability

Have Faith In Your Children With Intellectual Disabilities

Posted on December 31, 2021March 30, 2022 by Shannon Des Roches Rosa

This idea that people with intellectual disabilities cannot learn is a very dangerous idea and it leads to us being harmed. I think it is important to autistics with intellectual disabilities that we get the support to learn.

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Disability

HEARD: Supporting Black-Led, Disabled-Led, Cross-Disability Justice

Posted on December 23, 2021March 30, 2022 by Kerima Çevik

HEARD is a Black-led and disabled-led, cross-disability abolitionist organization. With practically no funding, HEARD has been doing vital work that no one else does.

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Autism

Circular Reasoning and The Question of Profound Quadrilaterality:

Posted on December 16, 2021March 30, 2022 by Bev Harp

Disabled people deserve access to the supports they need, whether due to autism or to co-occurring conditions. But squares are not more quadrilateral than trapezoids. There is no such thing as “profound autism.”

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Autism

Creating a “Profound Autism” Category Is Segregation, Not Progress

Posted on December 8, 2021May 9, 2022 by Shannon Des Roches Rosa

The term “profound autism” is not very useful to parents like me, or autistic people like my son. Instead, parents need connection with the communities who understand our kids’ high-support traits, like the disability and non-speaking communities—in addition to the wider autistic community.

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Accommodations

An Autistic Passion for Fashion

Posted on December 5, 2021April 25, 2022 by Emma Seely-Katz

For a person with heightened sensory sensitivity, clothing and accessories can make or break an entire day out; here are suggestions for clothes, accessories, and miscellaneous accoutrements that might work.

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Autism

UC Davis Neurodiversity Summit 2021: Debate on the Neurodiversity Movement, with Shannon Rosa and Matthew Belmonte

Posted on December 1, 2021May 23, 2022 by Shannon Des Roches Rosa

Our senior editor Shannon Rosa was invited to participate in the 2021 UC Davis Neurodiversity Summit, on a panel debating the role of the Neurodiversity Movement in supporting and including autistic people with intellectual and communication disabilities.

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Autism

Spectrum 10K and Cognitive Dissonance in Autism Research

Posted on October 27, 2021April 9, 2022 by Mary Doherty

“I have no doubt that the individual researchers I have encountered are well-meaning and sincere in their desire to positively impact the world. However, there appears to be a total lack of awareness of current reproductive medicine practices’ bias against neurodivergent people, never mind the implications.”

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Autism

About That Study on “Preventing” Autism Diagnoses, and How Autism Researchers Can Do Better

Posted on October 22, 2021May 23, 2022 by Patrick Dwyer, MA; Lucas Harrington, PsyD; and Ava Gurba, BS 

What if the headlines had read, “Autism doesn’t have to be a problem if children are understood and supported”?

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AAC

Jordyn Zimmerman on This Is Not About Me, a Remarkable New Film

Posted on October 18, 2021May 24, 2022 by Shannon Des Roches Rosa

Jordyn Zimmerman’s story, as told in the new documentary This Is Not About Me, is an example of how non-speaking autistic people can blossom when communication becomes possible.

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Autism

Little Victories: Publishers Need to Stop Framing Resenting Autistic Children as “Love”

Posted on October 8, 2021May 24, 2022 by Shannon Des Roches Rosa

Please, avoid this deceptively heartwarming tale. It mostly only models how to make questionable choices as a parent of an autistic child, and that can only hurt autistic children. 

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